Realm · 1871–1918
German Empire
German Empire appears on the map from 1871 to 1918. At its greatest recorded extent, in 1918, it covered about 1.42 million km².
One of the realms of German Empire and Germany. The German Empire was proclaimed at Versailles in January 1871, after Prussia under Otto von Bismarck defeated France and united the German states except Austria. It quickly became Europe's leading industrial and scientific power and gained colonies in Africa and the Pacific, where a rising in German South West Africa was crushed in the genocide of the Herero and Nama.
See German Empire on the map in 1918
- On the map
- 1871–1918
- Greatest extent
- 1918, about 1.42 million km²
- Read more
- Wikipedia: German Empire · Wikidata Q43287
Territory through time
| Years | Area drawn |
|---|---|
| 1871–1872 | 660,482 km² |
| 1873–1884 | 557,015 km² |
| 1885–1889 | 812,238 km² |
| 1890–1897 | 848,337 km² |
| 1898–1899 | 813,876 km² |
| 1900–1904 | 815,825 km² |
| 1905–1914 | 815,629 km² |
| 1915 | 632,317 km² |
| 1916 | 857,972 km² |
| 1917 | 890,588 km² |
| 1918 | 1.42 million km² |
Related
- German Empire and Germany empire
- First World War 28 July 1914 – 11 November 1918
- The world in 1880: Steam, Rail and Empire chapter
- The world in 1900: Dawn of a New Century chapter
- The world in 1914: The World Goes to War chapter