Which Countries Lost The Most Territory ?? 🤔 #shorts #geography #maps #history

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In this video we'll have a look on the countries that lost the most territories from their peak year to present. Here we talk about the Mongol Empire, The Roman Empire and the greates British Empire. But the first place will realy surprise yyou because it lost almost 99,9999% of it's territory compared to it's greatest extent.
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Which countries lost the most territory from their peak year until present ?
The Mongol Empire had a land area of around 23 million square kilometers at it’s peak, but today Mongolia territory has shrunk to just 1.56 million square kilometers meaning that it lost around 93.2% of it’s territory.
The British Empire reached the peak of territorial expansion at the beginning of the 20th century having a total land area of 35.5 million square kilometers. Today, UK’s retain only 243 thousand square kilometer which means that it lost around 99.3% of it’s land.
The country which lost the most territory though is Vatican City. With 44 thousand square kilometers in the 16th century, The Papal State used to stretch from Parma and Bologna all the way to Campagna, South of Rome, but today it is just a little fraction of that. With 0.44 square kilometers, Vatican City lost 99.9999% of it’s territory becoming the smallest country in the world.

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