The Mighty British Empire

Recently, since I've been researching the British Empire for a paper, my interest has peaked about the once-massive collection of states and territories. I found this interesting website where I will be getting most of my information.

Naturally, the British Empire began with England. I find it very interesting that it's classified from lasting from 1603 to 1949 on this site when most of my other sources regard it as still ongoing because of the British Commonwealth.

Its peak was in 1922, largely because empires are very expensive to maintain, and the British Empire, covering one fourth of the world's land area and population, starting running into financial trouble at the end of WWI.

It spanned 33,700,000 square kilometers (13,011,637 square miles) across all seven continents, controlling one fourth of the land area and one fourth of the population of the world at its height.

I hope this short history lesson was at least somewhat interesting.