Top 10 largest empires in history
Daily Tens #8 · Tuesday, July 21, 2026 · Ranked by peak land area controlled
Heads up: the answers are published further down this page.
The answers
- 1 British Empire
- 2 Mongol Empire
- 3 Russian Empire
- 4 Qing dynasty
- 5 Spanish Empire
- 6 Second French colonial empire
- 7 Abbasid Caliphate
- 8 Umayyad Caliphate
- 9 Yuan dynasty
- 10 Portuguese Empire
Ranking method
- Metric
- Peak land area controlled
- Data through
- All-time
- Source
- Wikipedia: List of largest empires
- Notes
- Peak extent is estimated by historians and varies between sources; empires are listed under the names used in that literature.
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