Most Populous Countries by Year

Portuguese Empire maybe?

"Roman Empire" wasn't accepted, really??

Holy Roman Empire wasn't really a country in 1500s onwards. It was a loose confederation of de facto independent states. I'd compare it to the European Union

One thing I've learned during my history studies is that the whole concept of 'country' is pretty ambiguous for anything that existed before 19th century.

You need to accept a few more variations for "Austria-Hungary" for instance I didn't get it with 'Austrohungarian'.

Soviet union should of been Russia. Got it wrong but typed russia.

def should accept Russia and Turkey for USSR & Ottomans

What about the portuguese empire ?

Add "evil" as a response for "USSR"

t. Reagan

Cool quiz.

Though..

As others have pointed out. If you accept "France" for the "French Empire," "UK" for the "British Empire," "India" for the "Maratha Empire,"

"Russia" for the "Russian Empire," "Spain" for the "Spanish Empire,"

"Austria" for the "Hapsburg Empire," "Austria" for "Austria-Hungary,"

"Denmark" for the "Dutch Empire," "Hungary" for "Hungary and Croatia," and "Poland" for "Polish-Lithuanian Union"...

Then you probably also ought to accept "Russia" for the "Soviet Union," "Turkey" for the "Ottoman Empire," and maybe even "Mexico" for the Aztecs, "Peru" for the Incas, and "Germany" for the HRE. There's little rationale for not doing so, other than you don't accept those type-ins in other places on the site.

Can you please accept Mexico for Aztec and Peru for Inca?

Why is Germany just Germany in 1900 whereas other European empires are labelled as, example, British Empire, rather than Britain or United Kingdom? Is it excluding German colonies? Great quiz!

Only missed ethiopia, holy roman empire (moved on after roman) aztec and inca and hungary-croatia

How do you know which countries were sovereing in 2050?

I'm italian and I missed Italy!!!

Accept Peru for Incan Empire?

Can you accept Mexico for Aztec Empire?

*types in russia* *thinks hard* *gives up* “Soviet Union”

THAT’S RUSSIA

Source?

Interesting that you put the Chinese Emperor on the thumbnail.

The fact that 50% got Polish-Lithuania is odd...

26, missed the 4 lowest ones unsurprisingly

This is one of the few times where the ones I missed were all of the lowest-guessed.

I know India was really fractured by 1500, but it still surprises me that no Indian empires from that period cracked the top 10. I would've thought something like the Delhi Sultanate or Vijayanagara Empire (the latter of which had one of the world's largest cities at the time) would've made it. Maybe they didn't keep good records though, or maybe I've overestimating the size of these empires.

Also pretty surprised that the Spanish Empire, with all its land area, only had a slightly high population than the Holy Roman Empire by 1800.

russia should count as Soviet Union

not all of these are countries

either you should change the title to countries and empires or you could except countries for empires

ex. mexico counts for aztec empire, turkey counts for ottoman empire, ect.

No Vijayanagar, Dehli Sultanate, Dai Viet, or Duchy of Moscow in 1500? Are you sure?

You should accept "Germany" for "Holy Roman Empire" as it's basically the same and also called "Holy Roman Empire of the German Nation" in those years

I agree with silllie and a few others rome for HRE though it is not fully acurate, turkey for the ottomans, and russia for the soviets

The Holy Roman Empire is not a country though, right?

However, I disagree much more with people saying "Rome" should be accepted haha.

I think that figure for the British Empire in 1800 is way too high. This is after the loss of much of North America and before the conquest of most of India or basically any of Africa. The Second and Third Anglo-Maratha Wars after 1800 did much to expand British rule in India, but in 1800 that was still in the future. This page gives the population of British India as late as 1814 as only 40,000,000 and the entire empire as 61,000,000 (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demographics_of_the_British_Empire) while this one suggests 57,000,000 for the Empire as a whole in 1800, with the vast majority of India's population still under the Maratha Confederacy (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_population_in_1800).

This quiz has a lovely score distribution chart.

How is Nigeria going to hit 400M first before the U.S, when they are 100M apart?

Lack of consistency.

On one hand you accept Austria for Habsburg Empire, India for Marathi Empire and Poland for Polish-Lithuanian commonwealth. On the other hand you do not accept Turkey for Ottoman Empire, Germany for Holy Roman and Russia for USSR. Similar logic though.