How big was the British Empire?

Take 60-second tour around the British Empire at its peak to discover the true size of 'The Empire On Which The Sun Never Sets'.

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[pollishion]

it was so large people in the comments are pointing out all the colonies you missed

[alanw]

Random island in the middle of the ocean thousands of miles away from anywhere -
British empire - DIBS

[mattdaemontargaryen]

Churchill :- "Hitler wants to invade the world!"

Meanwhile Britain :-

[DavidWillisSLS]

Fun fact: if you ever go outside and look up at a full moon, you are looking at exactly HALF of the land surface area contained in the British empire

[corrp.]

Fun fact: the British empires land was about 99.8% of the moons land area

[kennyful]

How large was the British Empire?

Yes

[urosstamenkovic]

USA is like "yeah that's my dad"

[El-Philippe]

I’d be very interested to see a series on the British Empire’s wars in Africa, like the Boer War, the Zulu Wars, the Mahdi War, etc.

[danielkrcmar]

People forget that the Raj wasn't one massive unified block. Almost half of it was still run as The Princly States which held a lot of control but just with ultimate loyalty to Britain.

[Armada-]

At some point the British even reached Hawai’i during the 18th century, and occupied it during the 19th, which is why our flag has the Union Jack in it

[captainhindsight]

Crazy really how a tiny island nation like that was able to conquer the world. Like it or not, Britain shaped the world as we know it.

[Gavinkeenan]

"The sun never set on the British empire, because God wouldn't trust them in the dark" - Shashi Tharoor

[briansmith]

For the size of us you must admit that’s impressive

[turkcukayi]

The luck of Britain was that it was an isolated island country in the north of Europe. This gave them great opportunities to improve themselves and stay on the defensive. For example, if it had been located between Europe and Persian, like the Ottomans, I'm sure it wouldn't have grown up this way.

[arthurgrech]

Malta: missing a small archipelago in the Mediterranean?

[Triple_Alliance]

You missed many territories, not just the one’s you didn’t name, you just didn’t mark many on the map, like for example Esequibo, Hong Kong and Brunei

[joshadrale]

They could have built a railway from the Cape, across large swathes of savannah, through tropical forests and burning deserts to Cairo and still be in the same area of influence.

[MichealRowlands]

Beautiful work very informative thank you

[LovelyBirchForest-hcib]

I didn't know that Britain possesed the Spanish Empire

[stixelay]

The British controlled a land area comparable to that of the land surface of the moon. Very impressive