List of empires
This is a navigational list of empires.
Empires
| Empire | Start year | End year | Duration |
| Achaemenid Empire | |||
| Afsharid Iran | |||
| Akkadian Empire | 180 | ||
| Akwamu | 238 | ||
| United States of America | 1776 | present | 249 |
| Angevin Empire | 88 | ||
| Aq Qoyunlu | 1467 | 1508 | 41 |
| Armenian Empire of Tigranes the Great | 34 | ||
| Asante Empire | 232 | ||
| Aulikara Empire | 22 | ||
| Austria-Hungary | 51 | ||
| Austrian Empire | 63 | ||
| Avar Khaganate | 567 | 822 | 255 |
| Ayutthaya Kingdom | 416 | ||
| Aztec Empire | 196 | ||
| Old Babylonian Empire | 299 | ||
| Neo-Babylonian Empire | 87 | ||
| Bamana Empire | 149 | ||
| Belgian colonial empire | 55 | ||
| Kingdom of Benin | 717 | ||
| Empire of Brazil | 67 | ||
| Britannic Empire | 10 | ||
| British Empire | 1583 | 414 | |
| British Raj | 89 | ||
| Sultanate of Brunei | 520 | ||
| Old Great Bulgaria | 36 | ||
| First Bulgarian Empire | 337 | ||
| Second Bulgarian Empire | 211 | ||
| Byzantine Empire | 395 | 1058 | |
| Carolingian Empire | 800 | 888 | 88 |
| Carthaginian Empire | |||
| Central African Empire | 1976 | 1979 | 3 |
| Chenla | 252 | ||
| Chimor | 570 | ||
| People's Republic of China | 1949 | present | 76 |
| Chola Empire | 431 | ||
| Athenian Empire | 454 BC | 404 BC | 50 |
| Danish colonial empire | |||
| Durrani Empire | 95 | ||
| Dutch colonial empire | 380 | ||
| Dzungar Khanate | 1634 | 1758 | 124 |
| Empire of Charles V | 37 | ||
| New Kingdom of Egypt | 473 | ||
| Elamite Empire | 110 | ||
| Ethiopian Empire | 704 | ||
| First French Empire | 11 | ||
| Second French Empire | 18 | ||
| French colonial empire | 1814 | 280 | |
| French colonial empire | 1830 | 1980 | 150 |
| Funan | 500 | ||
| Gallic Empire | 14 | ||
| Gaza Empire | 71 | ||
| German colonial empire | 36 | ||
| German Empire | 48 | ||
| Confederate German Realm | 1 | ||
| Ghana Empire | 405 | ||
| Ghaznavid Empire | 209 | ||
| Goguryeo | 705 | ||
| Goryeo | 474 | ||
| Golden Horde | 262 | ||
| Grand Duchy of Lithuania | 559 | ||
| Empire of Great Fulo | 264 | ||
| Gupta Empire | 230 | ||
| Habsburg monarchy | 636 | ||
| First Empire of Haiti | 2 | ||
| Second Empire of Haiti | 10 | ||
| Han dynasty | 202 BC | 220 AD | 422 |
| Hephthalite Empire | 120 | ||
| Hittite Empire | 422 | ||
| Holy Roman Empire | 800/962 | 1006/844 | |
| Hoysala Kingdom | 317 | ||
| Hunnic Empire | 99 | ||
| Iberian Union | 60 | ||
| Ilkhanate | 79 | ||
| Inca Empire | 134 | ||
| Italian Empire | 1960 | 78 | |
| Empire of Japan | 79 | ||
| Jin dynasty | 154 | ||
| Jin dynasty | 1115 | 1234 | 119 |
| Jolof Empire | 199 | ||
| Kaabu | 330 | ||
| Kanem–Bornu Empire | 1893 | 1193 | |
| Khmer Empire | 629 | ||
| Khwarazmian Empire | 154 | ||
| Kingdom of Georgia | 1008 | 1490 | 482 |
| Kong Empire | 188 | ||
| Korean Empire | 13 | ||
| Kushan Empire | 315 | ||
| Kingdom of Kush | 1130 | ||
| Latin Empire | 57 | ||
| Liao dynasty | 907 | 1125 | 218 |
| Macedonia | 660 | ||
| Majapahit | 234 | ||
| Mali Empire | 435 | ||
| Maratha Confederacy | 144 | ||
| Massina Empire | 42 | ||
| Maurya Empire | 136 | ||
| Median Empire | 128 | ||
| First Mexican Empire | 2 | ||
| Second Mexican Empire | 3 | ||
| Middle Assyrian Empire | 307 | ||
| Ming dynasty | 276 | ||
| Mongol Empire | 162 | ||
| Great Moravia | 74 | ||
| Mughal Empire | 331 | ||
| Nanda Empire | 24 | ||
| Nazi Germany | 12 | ||
| Kingdom of Nepal | 240 | ||
| Neo-Assyrian Empire | 302 | ||
| Neo-Sumerian Empire | 108 | ||
| North Sea Empire | 29 | ||
| Empire of Nicaea | 57 | ||
| Odrysian kingdom | 450 | ||
| Omani Empire | 158 | ||
| Ostrogothic Kingdom | 60 | ||
| Ottoman Empire | 623 | ||
| Oyo Empire | 596 | ||
| Pagan kingdom | 438 | ||
| Pala Empire | 411 | ||
| Palmyrene Empire | 3 | ||
| Parthian Empire | 471 | ||
| Kingdom of Pontus | 342 | ||
| Portuguese Empire | |||
| Ptolemaic Kingdom | 275 | ||
| Purépecha Empire | 1300 | 1530 | 230 |
| Qara Khitai | 94 | ||
| Qing dynasty | 268 | ||
| Rattanakosin Kingdom | 150 | ||
| Roman Empire | 422 | ||
| Rozvi Empire | 206 | ||
| Russian Empire | 196 | ||
| Safavid Iran | 235 | ||
| Samo's Empire | 27 | ||
| Sasanian Empire | 427 | ||
| Samanid Empire | 180 | ||
| Seleucid Empire | 249 | ||
| Seljuk Empire | 157 | ||
| Serbian Empire | 25 | ||
| Shu Han | 42 | ||
| Sikh Empire | 50 | ||
| Singhasari | 1222 | 1292 | 70 |
| Song dynasty | 319 | ||
| Songhai Empire | 127 | ||
| Soviet Union | 1922 | 1991 | 68 |
| Spanish Empire | 496 | ||
| Shunga Empire | 112 | ||
| Sur Empire | 1540 | 16 | |
| Swedish Empire | 286 | ||
| Tang dynasty | 618 | 907 | 289 |
| Tây Sơn dynasty | 24 | ||
| Empire of Thessalonica | 18 | ||
| Tibetan Empire | 87 | ||
| Timurid Empire | 137 | ||
| Empire of Trebizond | 257 | ||
| Toltec Empire | 626 | ||
| Tuʻi Tonga Empire | 915 | ||
| Tukulor Empire | 41 | ||
| First Turkic Khaganate | 193 | ||
| Empire of Vietnam | March 1945 | August 1945 | 0 |
| Vijayanagara Empire | 310 | ||
| Wari Empire | 500 | ||
| Wassoulou Empire | 20 | ||
| Western Chalukya Empire | 209 | ||
| Western Roman Empire | 81 | ||
| Yuan dynasty | 1260 | 1368 | 108 |
| Zhou dynasty | 790 |