Maps and Facts: What If the British Empire still existed today
May 27, 2017 13:29:15 GMT
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Post by lordroel on May 27, 2017 13:29:15 GMT
Maps and Facts: What If the British Empire still existed today
What if history’s largest empire, the British Empire, still existed today? What would it look like? How many countries would it include? How many people? What would they look like? Would the Sun really never set?
At the height of its power in 1921 it was known as the 'empire on which the sun never set' and was home to some 413 million people - 23 per cent of the world's population at the time.
It was so large it covered 13,700,000 sq miles - almost the entire surface area of the moon and a quarter of the Earth's total land mass.
After Britain lost 13 of its most populous and largest colonies in North America in 1783 the empire turned its attention towards Asia, Africa, and the Pacific.
But the sun did eventually set. Zimbabwe, the last British colony in Africa, gained its independence in 1980.
At the height of its power in 1921 the British Empire was known as the 'empire on which the sun never set' and was home to some 413 million people.
It was so large it covered 13,700,000 sq miles - almost the entire surface area of the moon and a quarter of the Earth's total land mass.
The symbolic end of the empire came in 1997 when Hong Kong was handed back to China after almost 100 years of British rule.
A new empire would be 146 times larger than the UK in 2017 and have 40 times the population with 2.643 billion residents - 37 per cent of the world's people.
However the vast majority would be extremely impoverished with the average citizen earning just £4,007 a year.
Some 69 per cent of the citizens would be Asian, 19 per cent African, seven per cent Arab and five per cent white.
A New British Empire would have the largest military in the world, but it would still have less than half the USA's $597 billion budget.
YouTube video asking the question, What If: the British Empire still exist today
Some facts about a British empire if it still existed today:
- It would be made up of 64 countries with a population of 2.634 billion people.
- Its lands would take up a quarter of the Earth’s land area and could fill up 94 percent of the moon.
- It wouldn’t pass the US in military spending, but it would have the largest military on the planet.
- Only 5 percent of the population would be white.
- The population would be poor even though it would have the world’s second biggest economy.
- The New British Empire would be 146 x larger than the United Kingdom in 2017 and would have 40 times population
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What if history’s largest empire, the British Empire, still existed today? What would it look like? How many countries would it include? How many people? What would they look like? Would the Sun really never set?
At the height of its power in 1921 it was known as the 'empire on which the sun never set' and was home to some 413 million people - 23 per cent of the world's population at the time.
It was so large it covered 13,700,000 sq miles - almost the entire surface area of the moon and a quarter of the Earth's total land mass.
After Britain lost 13 of its most populous and largest colonies in North America in 1783 the empire turned its attention towards Asia, Africa, and the Pacific.
But the sun did eventually set. Zimbabwe, the last British colony in Africa, gained its independence in 1980.
At the height of its power in 1921 the British Empire was known as the 'empire on which the sun never set' and was home to some 413 million people.
It was so large it covered 13,700,000 sq miles - almost the entire surface area of the moon and a quarter of the Earth's total land mass.
The symbolic end of the empire came in 1997 when Hong Kong was handed back to China after almost 100 years of British rule.
A new empire would be 146 times larger than the UK in 2017 and have 40 times the population with 2.643 billion residents - 37 per cent of the world's people.
However the vast majority would be extremely impoverished with the average citizen earning just £4,007 a year.
Some 69 per cent of the citizens would be Asian, 19 per cent African, seven per cent Arab and five per cent white.
A New British Empire would have the largest military in the world, but it would still have less than half the USA's $597 billion budget.
YouTube video asking the question, What If: the British Empire still exist today
Some facts about a British empire if it still existed today:
- It would be made up of 64 countries with a population of 2.634 billion people.
- Its lands would take up a quarter of the Earth’s land area and could fill up 94 percent of the moon.
- It wouldn’t pass the US in military spending, but it would have the largest military on the planet.
- Only 5 percent of the population would be white.
- The population would be poor even though it would have the world’s second biggest economy.
- The New British Empire would be 146 x larger than the United Kingdom in 2017 and would have 40 times population
.