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| Name | Million km2 | Million mi2 | % of World | Year |
| British Empire | 35.5 | 13.71 | 23.84 | 1920 AD |
| Mongol Empire | 24.0 | 9.27 | 16.11 | 1270 or 1309 AD |
| Russian Empire | 22.8 | 8.8 | 15.31 | 1895 AD |
| American Empire | 23.012 | 8.766 | 15.2 | 1902 AD |
| Spanish Empire | 13.7 or 20.0 | 5.29 or 7.72 | 9.2 or 13.43 | 1810 or 1750 AD |
| Qing Dynasty | 13.1 - 14.7 | 5.06 - 5.68 | 8.8 - 9.87 | 1790 AD |
| Second French Colonial Empire | 11.5 | 4.44 | 7.72 | 1920 AD |
| Abbasid Caliphate | 11.1 | 4.29 | 7.45 | 750 AD |
| Umayyad Caliphate | 11.1 | 4.29 | 7.45 | 720 AD |
| Yuan Dynasty | 11.0 or 13.72 | 4.25 or 5.3 | 7.39 or 9.21 | 1310 or 1330 AD |
| Xiongnu Empire | 9.0 | 3.47 | 6.04 | 176 BC |
| Brazilian Empire | 8.337 | 3.22 | 5.6 | 1889 AD |
| Empire of Japan | 7.4 or 8.51 | 2.86 or 3.285 | 4.97 or 5.71 | 1938 or 1942 AD |
| Spanish Empire (Iberian Union) | 7.1 | 2.74 | 4.77 | 1640 AD |
| Eastern Han Dynasty | 6.5 | 2.51 | 4.36 | 100 AD |
| Ming Dynasty | 6.5 | 2.51 | 4.36 | 1450 AD |
| Rashidun Caliphate | 6.4 | 2.47 | 4.3 | 655 AD |
| Görktürk Khaganate | 6.0 | 2.32 | 4.03 | 557 AD |
| Golden Horde Khaganate | 6.0 | 2.32 | 4.03 | 1310 AD |
| Western Han Dynasty | 6.0 | 2.32 | 4.03 | 50 BC |
| Persian Empire (Achaemenid) | 5.5 or 8.0 | 2.12 or 3.09 | 3.69m or 5.37 | 500 or 480 BC |
| Second Portuguese Empire | 5.5 or 10.4 | 2.12 or 4.02 | 3.69 or 6.98 | 1820 or 1815 AD |
| Tang Dynasty | 5.4 or 10.7 | 2.08 or 4.13 | 3.63 or 7.18 | 715 or 669 AD |
| Alexander's Empire | 5.2 | 2.01 | 3.49 | 323 BC |
| Ottoman Empire | 5.2 | 2.01 | 3.49 | 1683 AD |
| Roman Empire | 5.0 | 1.93 | 3.36 | 117 AD |
| Tibetan Empire | 4.6 | 1.78 | 3.09 | 800 AD |
| Timurid Empire | 4.4 | 1.7 | 2.95 | 1405 AD |
| Italian Empire | 4.25 | 1.64 | 2.85 | 1941 AD |
| Fatimid Caliphate | 4.1 | 1.58 | 2.75 | 969 AD |
| Eastern Görktürk Khaganate | 4.0 | 1.54 | 2.69 | 624 AD |
| Hephthalite Empire | 4.0 | 1.54 | 2.69 | 470 AD |
| Hunnic Empire (Attila) | 4.0 | 1.54 | 2.69 | 441 AD |
| Mughal Empire | 4.0 | 1.54 | 2.69 | 1690 AD |
| Seljuk Empire | 3.9 | 1.51 | 2.62 | 1080 AD |
| Seleucid Empire | 3.9 | 1.51 | 2.62 | 301 BC |
| Nazi German Empire | 3.898 | 1.505 | 2.61 | 1942 AD |
| Ilkhanate | 3.75 | 1.45 | 2.52 | 1310 AD |
| Chagatai Khaganate | 3.5 | 1.35 | 2.35 | 1310 or 13560 AD |
| Sassanid Empire | 3.5 | 1.35 | 2.35 | 550 BC |
| Western Turkic Khaganate | 3.5 | 1.35 | 2.35 | 630 AD |
| Western Xiongnu | 3.5 | 1.35 | 2.35 | 20 AD |
| First French Colonial Empire | 3.4 | 1.31 | 2.28 | 1670 AD |
| Ghaznavid Empire | 3.4 | 1.31 | 2.28 | 1029 AD |
| Maurya Empire | 3.4 or 5.0 | 1.31 or 1.93 | 2.28 or 3.36 | 261 or 250 BC |
| Tughlaq Dynasty | 3.2 | 1.24 | 2.15 | 1312 AD |
| German Colonial Empire | 3.2 | 1.24 | 2.15 | 1912 AD |
| Song Dynasty | 3.1 | 1.2 | 2.08 | 980 AD |
| Uyghur Khaganate | 3.1 | 1.2 | 2.08 | 800 AD |
| Western Jin Dynasty | 3.1 | 1.2 | 2.08 | 280 AD |
| Sui Dynasty | 3.0 | 1.16 | 2.01 | 589 AD |
| Samanid Empire | 2.85 | 1.1 | 1.91 | 928 AD |
| Byzantine Empire | 2.8 | 1.08 | 1.88 | 450 AD |
| Eastern Jin Dynasty | 2.8 | 1.08 | 1.88 | 347 AD |
| Median Empire | 2.8 | 1.08 | 1.88 | 585 BC |
| Parthian Empire | 2.8 | 1.08 | 1.88 | 0 AD |
| Rouran Khaganate | 2.8 | 1.08 | 1.88 | 405 AD |
| Indo-Scythian Kingdom | 2.6 | 1.0 | 1.75 | 20 AD |
| Liao Dynasty | 2.6 | 1.0 | 1.75 | 947 AD |
| Greco-Bactrian Kingdom | 2.5 | .97 | 1.68 | 184 BC |
| Later Zhao Dynasty | 2.5 | .97 | 1.68 | 329 AD |
| Maratha Empire | 2.5 | .97 | 1.68 | 1760 AD |
| Jin Dynasty | 2.3 | .89 | 1.54 | 1126 AD |
| Khwarezmian Empire | 2.3 or 3.6 | .89 or 1.39 | 1.54 or 2.42 | 1210 or 1218 AD |
| Qin Dynasty | 2.3 | .89 | 1.54 | 220 BC |
| First French Empire (Napoléon) | 2.1 | .81 | 1.41 | 1813 AD |
| Kievan Rus | 2.1 | .81 | 1.41 | 1000 AD |
| Mamluk Sultanate | 2.1 | .81 | 1.41 | 1300 or 1400 AD |
| Third Portuguese Empire | 2.1 | .81 | 1.41 | 1900 AD |
| Almohad Caliphate | 2.0 or 2.3 | .77 or.89 | 1.34 or 1.54 | 1200 or 1250 AD |
| Cao Wei Dynasty | 2.0 | .77 | 1.34 | 263 AD |
| Former Qin Dynasty | 2.0 | .77 | 1.34 | 376 AD |
| Former Zhao Dynasty | 2.0 | .77 | 1.34 | 316 AD |
| Inca Empire | 2.0 | .77 | 1.34 | 1527 AD |
| Kushan Empire | 2.0 or 2.5 | .77 or .97 | 1.34 or 1.68 | 200 AD |
| Liu Song Dynasty | 2.0 | .77 | 1.34 | 450 AD |
| Northern Wei Dynasty | 2.0 | .77 | 1.34 | 450 AD |
| Ayyubid Dynasty | 1.7 or 2.0 | .66 or .77 | 1.14 or 1.34 | 1200 or 1190 AD |
| Gupta Empire | 1.7 or 3.5 | .66 or 1.35 | 1.14 or 2.35 | 440 or 400 AD |
| Buyid Dynasty | 1.6 | .62 | 1.07 | 980 AD |
| Eastern Wu Dynasty | 1.5 | .58 | 1.01 | 221 AD |
| Northern Qi Dynasty | 1.5 | .58 | 1.01 | 557 AD |
| Northern Xiongnu | 1.5 | .58 | 1.01 | 60 AD |
| Northern Zhou Dynasty | 1.5 | .58 | 1.01 | 557 AD |
| Assyrian Empire | 1.40 | .54 | .94 | 670 BC |
| Maurya Empire | 1.3 | .50 | .87 | 210 BC |
| Liang Dynasty | 1.3 | .50 | .87 | 579 AD |
| Kingdom of Aksum | 1.25 | .48 | .84 | 350 AD |
| Shang Dynasty | 1.25 | .48 | .84 | 1122 BC |
| Kingdom of the Franks | 1.2 | .46 | .81 | 814 AD |
| Srivijaya | 1.2 | .46 | .81 | 1200 AD |
| Indo-Greek Kingdom | 1.1 | .42 | .74 | 150 BC |
| Mali Empire | 1.1 | .42 | .74 | 1380 AD |
| Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth | 1.1 | .42 | .74 | 1480 or 1650 AD |
| Almoravid Dynasty | 1.0 | .39 | .67 | 1120 AD |
| Empire of Harsha | 1.0 | .39 | .67 | 625 or 648 AD |
| Gurjara-Pratihara Dynasty | 1.0 | .39 | .67 | 860 AD |
| Holy Roman Empire | 1.0 | .39 | .67 | 1050 AD |
| Khazar Khanate | 1.0 or 3.0 | .39 or 1.16 | .67 or 2.01 | 900 or 850 AD |
| Khmer Empire | 1.0 | .39 | .67 | 1290 AD |
| New Kingdom of Egypt | 1.0 | .39 | .67 | 1450 or 1300 BC |
| Ptolemaic Empire | 1.0 | .39 | .67 | 301 BC |
| Qara Khitai | 1.0 or 1.5 | .39 or .58 | .67 or 1.01 | 1130 or 1210 AD |
| Shu Han Dynasty | 1.0 | .39 | .67 | 221 AD |
| Tahirid Dynasty | 1.0 | .39 | .67 | 800 AD |
| Western Xia Dynasty | 1.0 | .39 | .67 | 1100 AD |
| First Bulgarian Empire | .80 | .31 | .54 | 927 AD |
| Akkadian Empire | .80 | .31 | .54 | 2250 BC |
| Avar Khaganate | .80 | .31 | .54 | 600 AD |
| Chu State | .80 | .31 | .54 | 300 BC |
| First Portuguese Empire | .80 | .31 | .54 | 1580 AD |
| Songhai Empire | .80 | .31 | .54 | 1550 AD |
| Hyksos | .65 | .25 | .44 | 1650 BC |
| Egyptian 26th Dynasty | .65 | .25 | .44 | 550 BC |
| Caliphate of Córdoba | .60 | .23 | .40 | 1000 AD |
| Visigothic Kingdom | .60 | .23 | .40 | 580 AD |
| Kingdom of Kosala | .50 | .19 | .34 | 543 BC |
| Lydia | .50 | .19 | .34 | 585 BC |
| Kingdom of Magadha | .50 | .19 | .34 | 510 BC |
| Egyptian Middle Kingdom | .50 | .19 | .34 | 1850 BC |
| Neo-Babylonian Empire | .50 | .19 | .34 | 562 BC |
| Satvahana Dynasty | .50 | .19 | .34 | 150 AD |
| Egyptian 25th Dynasty | .50 | .19 | .34 | 715 BC |
| Western Satraps | .50 | .19 | .34 | 100 AD |
| Second Bulgarian Empire | .477 | .18 | .32 | 1241 AD |
| New Hittite Kingdom | .45 | .17 | .30 | 1250 or 1220 BC |
| Xia Dynasty | .45 | .17 | .30 | 1800 BC |
| Middle Assyrian Empire | .40 | .15 | .27 | 1080 BC |
| Egyptian Old Kingdom | .40 | .15 | .27 | 2400 BC |
| Ancient Carthage | .30 | .12 | .20 | 220 BC |
| Mitanni Empire | .30 | .12 | .20 | 1450 or 1375 BC |
| Babylonian Empire | .25 | .10 | .17 | 1690 BC |
| Aztec Empire | .22 | .08 | .15 | 1520 AD |
| Elamite Empire | .20 | .08 | .13 | 1160 BC |
| Phrygia | .20 | .08 | .13 | 750 BC |
| Second Dynasty of Isin | .20 | .08 | .13 | 1130 BC |
| Urartu Kingdom | .20 | .08 | .13 | 800 BC |
| Middle Hittite Kingdom | .15 | .06 | .10 | 1450 BC |
| Old Assyrian Empire | .15 | .06 | .10 | 1730 BC |
| Old Hittite Kingdom | .15 | .06 | .10 | 1530 BC |
| Ashanti Empire | .10 | .04 | .07 | 1872 AD |
| Larsa (Lugalzagesi of Umma) | .10 | .04 | .07 | 1750-1700 BC |
| Sumerian 3rd Dynasty | .05 | .02 | .03 | 2000 BC |
| Sumerian Empire | .05 | .02 | .03 | 2400 BC |
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