ITT: sexy empires

Why'd they leave Sri Lanka, Finland, some islands in Indonesia, part of Denmark and Estonia out of the empire? Did they fear their racially respective warriors?

Mexican Empire

You right. Better one.

Ah fuck, forgot Iran

Places the US doesn’t control:
Russia,
Belarus
Iran
Syria
China
North Korea
Venezuela
Cuba
Tropical Africa
Maybe Philippines
Israel
Burma

Places it does control:
Europe
The Arab world
The Sahel
South Africa
The Anglosphere
Most of the Caribbean
South and Central America
Southeast Asia
South Asia
Non-Chinese East Asia

Pls correct if wrong

Disgusting

>Literally zero cities in Romania
Oh, I am laffin

>Israel
oh gee, i wonder where their defense budget comes from

Finland’s getting ready to launch mongol invasion 2.0

Name one empire with more aesthetic borders than Austria-Hungary. Pro Tip: you can't.

From their vassal state, the US.

inb4
>empire
whatever, the point is that it looked aesthetic

Austria-Hungary without Galicia and with Po Valley

>German Empire.jpg

Needs Venetia

Still unsurpassed with three titles.
State with largest share of Earth's population within it's borders(roughly half the world population lived in it).
State with longest time unsurpassed as largest empire(1200 years until another Empire eclipses it in territorial size).
Best looking borders for any superstate yet.

Timurid Empire

>an empire of Mediterranean resorts

Why aren't there more Balkan empires? It's a sexy shape for a peninsula. Say. down from Danube.

there is nothing sexy about horse empire. Fuck you

Mercantile/trade empires are the shit

most of central asia/the stans (obviously excluding afghanland), Turkey probably, Vietnam and Laos arguably, perhaps even India.

it certainly is OLDER

amirite?

*coughs on it*

>US doesn't control israel
what

I like the Ottomans

I don't

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Israel controls the USA numbnuts.

I just threw up

>best looking borders
Nah. The thing strip of the Balkans looks messy as fuck. Now if Alexander had bothered to conquer the areas of the Persian empire that he skipped, that would be some sexy borders.

While it's not as nice as some of the other dates, Rome in 1025 has a certain appeal to it

no?