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The following table gives the population of the British Empire and its territories, in several different time periods. The most populous territory in the empire was British India, which included what are now Pakistan and Bangladesh.
This is a list of countries by population in 1939 (including any dependent, occupied or colonized territories for empires), providing an approximate overview of the world population before World War II.
From mid-June 1940, following the rapid German invasions and occupations of Poland, Denmark, Norway, France, Belgium, Luxembourg and the Netherlands, the British Commonwealth was the main opponent of Germany and the Axis, until the entry into the war of the Soviet Union in June 1941.
The collapse of the state-empire system and the consequent inevitable reinvention of the sometime core territories constituted the major elite crisis of the second part of the twentieth century; a state-empire system assembled over a couple of centuries was destroyed in a decade or so.
28 Οκτ 2024 · British Empire, a worldwide system of dependencies— colonies, protectorates, and other territories—that over a span of some three centuries was brought under the sovereignty of the crown of Great Britain and the administration of the British government.
This chapter surveys these dynamics by exploring the spatial reach and duration of empires, their population size, and long-term variation between different parts of the world. It identifies the largest and most populous empires in world history, compares premodern agrarian and modern colonial empires, and links their properties to geographical ...
22 Απρ 2016 · Analysing the causes for the decolonisation of the British Empire, this article finds that World War Two was a catalyst amongst a number of other coincidental factors. AUTHOR: CLAIRE SWEETLAND
