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Empire size in this list is defined as the dry land area it controlled at the time, which may differ considerably from the area it claimed. For example: in the year 1800, European powers collectively claimed approximately 20% of the Earth's land surface that they did not effectively control. [ 8 ]
From the 16th to the 17th centuries, the First French colonial empire’s total area at its peak in 1680 was over 10 million km 2 (3.9 million sq mi), the second largest empire in the world at the time behind only the Spanish Empire. [98]
The British Empire in World War II. Academic.edu. Owino, Meshack. "Kenya and the Second World War: A review of the historiographical landscape." History Compass 19.3 (2021): e12649. Raghavan, Srinath. India's War: World War II and the Making of Modern South Asia (2016) Stewart, Andrew (2008). Empire Lost: Britain, the Dominions and the Second ...
In the closing stages of World War II, with Japan defeated alongside the rest of the Axis powers, the formalized surrender was issued on 2 September 1945 in compliance with the Potsdam Declaration of the Allies, and the empire's territory subsequently shrunk to cover only the Japanese archipelago resembling modern Japan.
Bamana Empire: 1712: 1861: 149 Belgian Colonial Empire: 1908: 1962: 55 Bengal Sultanate: 1352: 1576: 209 Benin Empire: 1180: 1897: 717 Bogd Khanate of Mongolia/Great Mongolian State 1911 1924 7 (broken up from 1915 to 1921) Bornu Empire: 1380: 1893: 513 Empire of Brazil: 1822: 1889: 67 Britannic Empire: 286: 296: 10 British Empire: 1583: 1997: ...
The following divisions from British Crown Colonies served in World War II: . Divisions of the British Army. 1st African Division; 2nd African Division; 11th African Division; 12th African Division
Empire Earth II is a real-time strategy video game developed by Mad Doc Software and published by Vivendi Universal Games and their subsidiary Sierra Entertainment on April 26, 2005. [2] It is a sequel to Empire Earth , which was developed by the now-defunct Stainless Steel Studios .
From the 16th to the 20th centuries, the British Empire stretched from a total area at its peak in 1920 to over 35,500,000 km 2 (13,700,000 sq mi), the largest empire in the world. [1] In terms of population, on the eve of World War II, Britain and her colonial possessions totaled 500 million inhabitants.