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=== Timeline of largest empires to date ===
The earliest empire which can with certainty be stated to have been larger than all previous empires was that of [[Upper and Lower Egypt]], which covered ten times the area of the previous largest civilisation around the year 3000 BC.<ref>{{Cite journal|last=Taagepera|first=Rein|author-link=Rein Taagepera|date=1997|title=Expansion and Contraction Patterns of Large Polities: Context for Russia|url=https://escholarship.org/content/qt3cn68807/qt3cn68807.pdf|url-status=live|journal=[[International Studies Quarterly]]|language=en|volume=41|issue=3|pages=480|doi=10.1111/0020-8833.00053|issn=0020-8833|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200707203055/https://escholarship.org/content/qt3cn68807/qt3cn68807.pdf|archive-date=2020-07-07|access-date=2020-07-07}}</ref>
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{| class="wikitable sortable sticky-header-multi" style="width: 550px" ! class="unsortable" rowspan="2" |Empire
! colspan="2" |Land area
! class="unsortable" rowspan="2" |Year
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! class="unsortable" |Million km<sup>2</sup>
! class="unsortable" |Million sq mi
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|[[Upper and Lower Egypt]]
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=== Timeline of largest empires at the time ===
{| class="wikitable sortable sticky-header-multi" style="width: 550px"
! class="unsortable" rowspan="2" |Empire
! colspan="2" |Land area during time<br>as largest empire
! class="unsortable" rowspan="2" |Approximate period<ref name="Taagepera1978a" />
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! class="unsortable" |Million km<sup>2</sup><ref name="Taagepera1978a" />
! class="unsortable" |Million sq mi
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|[[Upper and Lower Egypt|Upper Egypt]]
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[[File:The Harmsworth atlas and Gazetter 1908 (135853022).jpg|thumb|right|The home and colonial populations of the world's empires in 1908, as given by ''The Harmsworth Atlas and Gazetteer'']]
Because of the trend of increasing world population over time, absolute population figures are for some purposes less relevant for comparison between different empires than their respective shares of the world population at the time.<ref>{{Cite book|last1=Scheidel|first1=Walter|title=The Oxford World History of Empire: Volume One: The Imperial Experience|publisher=Oxford University Press|year=2020|isbn=978-0-19-977311-4|editor-last=Bang|editor-first=Peter Fibiger|editor-link=Peter Fibiger Bang|location=|pages=102|language=en|chapter=The Scale of Empire: Territory, Population, Distribution|author-link=Walter Scheidel|editor-last2=Bayly|editor-first2=C. A.|editor-link2=Christopher Bayly|editor-last3=Scheidel|editor-first3=Walter|editor-link3=Walter Scheidel|chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=9mkLEAAAQBAJ&pg=PA102}}</ref> For the majority of the time since roughly 400 BC, the two most populous empires' combined share of the world population has been 30–40%. Most of the time, the most populous empire has been located in China.<ref>{{Cite book|last=Myrdal|first=Janken|title=Ecology and Power: Struggles over Land and Material Resources in the Past, Present and Future|publisher=Routledge|year=2013|isbn=978-1-136-33529-7|editor-last=Hornborg|editor-first=Alf|pages=43|language=en|chapter=Empire: The comparative study of imperialism|editor-last2=Clark|editor-first2=Brett|editor-link2=Brett Clark (sociologist)|editor-last3=Hermele|editor-first3=Kenneth|chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=dkWqOb82PxgC&pg=PA43}}</ref>
{| class="wikitable sortable sticky-header-multi"
!Empire
!Empire population<br>as percentage of<br>world population<ref name="OxfordPopulation">{{Cite book|last1=Scheidel|first1=Walter|title=The Oxford World History of Empire: Volume One: The Imperial Experience|publisher=Oxford University Press|year=2020|isbn=978-0-19-977311-4|editor-last=Bang|editor-first=Peter Fibiger|editor-link=Peter Fibiger Bang|location=|pages=103|language=en|chapter=The Scale of Empire: Territory, Population, Distribution|author-link=Walter Scheidel|editor-last2=Bayly|editor-first2=C. A.|editor-link2=Christopher Bayly|editor-last3=Scheidel|editor-first3=Walter|editor-link3=Walter Scheidel|chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=9mkLEAAAQBAJ&pg=PA103}}</ref>
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