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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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=== 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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