How Big Was the Mongol Empire, Really?

Published 9 November 2026

The Mongol Empire was the largest contiguous land empire in history. Drag it across the globe and compare it with modern countries.

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Genghis Khan united the Mongol tribes in 1206. Within seventy years his successors ruled from Korea to Hungary and from Siberia to the Persian Gulf, the largest contiguous land empire there has ever been.

By 1300 the empire had split into four khanates: the Yuan in China, the Golden Horde on the steppe, the Chagatai Khanate in Central Asia and the Ilkhanate in Persia. On the border maps of Chronica Maps they appear as separate states.

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Last updated 9 November 2026. Sources: border data from historical-basemaps, land and rivers from Natural Earth; texts written for Chronica Maps from standard reference works. How we make the maps.

How Big Was the Mongol Empire, Really?

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