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At the height of its power, the British Empire encompassed over 33 million km2 of land, the largest empire in history. The empire had territorial possessions in every continent, which led to the phrase "the sun never sets on the British Empire."

By 1922 the British Empire held sway over about 458 million people, one-fifth of the world's population at the time.

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The British Empire was the largest empire that has ever existed on earth, even with the loss of the American colonies. The British Empire included holdings on all continents except Antarctica, and the entire continent of Australia, as well as India, much of Africa, Canada, various holdings in the Caribbean and South America, and numerous holdings of smaller islands and territories in all of the world's ice-free oceans.

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The British Empire no longer exists. Most of what was the British Empire are now sovereign nations and many of those are members of the Commonwealth of Nations. The Commonwealth might be thought of as the successor of the Empire, but it is certainly not the empire.

The Commonwealth of Nations consists of:

Antigua and Barbuda

Australia

Bahamas

Bangladesh

Barbados

Belize

Botswana

Brunei

Cameroon

Canada

Cyprus

Dominica

Gambia

Ghana

Grenada

Guyana

India

Jamaica

Kenya

Kiribati

Lesotho

Malawi

Malaysia

Maldives

Malta

Mauritius

Mozambique

Namibia

Nauru

New Zealand

Nigeria

Pakistan

Papua New Guinea

Rwanda

Saint Kitts and Nevis

Saint Lucia

Saint Vincent and the Grenadines

Samoa

Seychelles

Sierra Leone

Singapore

Solomon Islands

South Africa

Sri Lanka

Swaziland

Tanzania

Tonga

Trinidad and Tobago

Tuvalu

Uganda

United Kingdom

Vanuatu

Zambia

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About 15,849,342 square miles.

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89,181 square miles

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