WORLD HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -At its most extensive, the British Empire comprised 57 colonies, dominions, territories or protectorates from Australia, Canada and India to Fiji, Western Samoa and Tonga.

Detailed explanation-2: -During the 19th and 20th centuries, the French colonial empire was the second largest colonial empire in the world only behind the British Empire; it extended over 13, 500, 000 km2 (5, 200, 000 sq mi) of land at its height in the 1920s and 1930s.

Detailed explanation-3: -The empire Great Britain would go on to found was the largest empire that the world has ever seen both in terms of landmass and population. Its power, both military and economic, remained unmatched for a few decades.