LARGEST COUNTRIES OF ALL TIME

1. British Empire

  33.7 million km2  (Year 1923)





2. Mongol Empire

  24.0 million km2 ( Year 1270)








3. Russian Empire

   23.7 million km2 (Year 1866)




4. Ottoman Empire

  20.0 million km2 (Year 1595)





5. Spanish Empire

  20.0 million km2 (Year 1740-1790)





6. Qing Empire, China

   14.7 million km2 (Year 1790)






7. Yuan Dynasty, China

        14.0 million km2 (Year 1310)

8. Umayyad Caliphate

    13.0 million km2 (Year 720)






9. Second French Colonial Empire

   12.3 million km2 (Year 1938)




10. Abbasid Caliphate

     11.1 million km2 (Year 750)





11. Portuguese Empire

  10.4 million km2 (Year 1815)