40 Largest Empires in History

Can you name 40 biggest empires in history only empires are considered, states that are now in the modern world are not taken into account.

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Places	Country	Country Rule	Million km2	Years of power
1.	British Empire	United Kingdom	35.5M km2	1920
2.	Mongol Empire	Mongolia	24M km2	1270 or 1309
3.	Russian Empire	Russia	22.8M km2	1895
4.	Qing Dynasty	China	14.7M km2	1790
5.	Spanish Empire	Spain	13.7M km2	1810
6.	Second French Colonial Empire	France	11.5M km2	1920
7.	Abbasid Caliphate	Iraq	11.1M km2	750
8.	Umayyad Caliphate	Saudi Arabia/Syria	11.1M km2	720
9.	Yuan Dynasty	China	11M km2	1310
10.	Xiongnu Dynasty	China	9M km2	176 BC
11.	Empire of Brazil	Brazil	8.3M km2	1889
12.	Empire of Japan	Japan	7.4M km2	1942
13.	Eastern Han Dynasty	China	6.5M km2	100
14.	Ming Dynasty	China	6.5M km2	1450
15.	Rashidun Caliphate	Saudi Arabia	6.4M km2	655
16.	First Turkic Khaganate	Kyrgyzstan	6M km2	557
17.	Golden Horde Khanate	Mongolia	6M km2	1310
18.	Western Han Dynasty	China	6M km2	50 BC
19.	Achaemenid Empire	Iran	5.5M km2	500 BC
20.	Second Portuguese Empire	Portugal	5.5M km2	1820
21.	Tang Dynasty	China	5.4M km2	715
22.	Macedonian Empire	Greece	5.2M km2	323 BC
23.	Ottoman Empire	Turkiye	5.2M km2	1683
24.	Northern Yuan Dynasty	China	5M km2	1368
25.	Roman Empire	Rome	5M km2	117
26.	Xin Dynasty	China	4.7M km2	10
27.	Tibetan Empire	China	4.6M km2	800
28.	Xianbei State	China	4.5M km2	200
29.	First Mexican Empire	Mexico	4.4M km2	1821
30.	Timurid Empire	Uzbekistan	4.4M km2	1405
31.	Fatimid Empire	Egypt	4.1M km2	969
32.	Eastern Turkic Khaganate	Mongolia	4M km2	624
33.	Hunnic Empire	Hungary	4M km2	441
34.	Mughal Empire	India	4M km2	1690
35.	Great Seljuq Empire	Iran/Turkiye	3.9M km2	1080
36.	Seleucid Empire	Iran	3.9M km2	301 BC
37.	Italian Empire	Italy	3.8M km2	1941
38.	Ilkhanate	Iran	3.7M km2	1310
39.	Dzungar Khanate	China/Mongolia	3.6M km2	1650
40.	Chagatai Khanate	China/Mongolia	3.5M km2	1310 or 1350