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Top 10 largest empires in history

Daily Tens #8 · Tuesday, July 21, 2026 · Ranked by peak land area controlled

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The answers

  1. 1 British Empire
  2. 2 Mongol Empire
  3. 3 Russian Empire
  4. 4 Qing dynasty
  5. 5 Spanish Empire
  6. 6 Second French colonial empire
  7. 7 Abbasid Caliphate
  8. 8 Umayyad Caliphate
  9. 9 Yuan dynasty
  10. 10 Portuguese Empire

Sources & methodology

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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