and that means that next year will mark the 100th anniversary since Austria-Hungary ceased existing as a country.

But what if for whatever reason, this old empire was suddenly recreated today with the exact same borders

that it had in 1914 just prior to the first World War?

What exactly would Austria-Hungary look like if it existed today...

And could it actually survive for very long?

To start with, 14 different countries would lost all or some of their territories to the newly created empire

This would make the empire the 39th largest country in the

modern world roughly the same size at Myanmar

in Asia but Austria-Hungary would be

the second largest country in Europe

behind only Russia. In terms of

population, however, the Empire would be

home to 68,763,000

people which would place

it as the third most populous nation in

Europe behind both Russia and Germany

but ahead of France. Taking the entire

world into consideration, though, and

Austria-Hungary would have the 20 of the

largest population larger than Thailand

but remaining behind turkey this

population would also be outrageously

diverse, just like the old Empire in 1914

was. In a sense the struggles of

nationalism within the Empire throughout

its history contributed significantly to

the Empire's downfall 100 years ago and

this would continue to be a major

problem today like the old Empire, Germans

and Hungarians would make up the two

largest and most powerful ethnicities

within the empire but even combined they

would only make up about one-third of

the total Imperial population the other

largest ethnic groups would be the

Ukrainians, Czechs, Romanians, Poles, Croats

into a lesser degree Serbs, Bosniaks

Slovenes, Italians and Roman people.

As youcan see there's not a single ethnic

group with any clear majority in the

country while power would be invested

almost entirely with the Germans and

Hungarians alone. Austria-Hungary was

rather unique in the fact that the

Empire had two capital cities, Vienna and

Budapest since these two cities would remain as

the largest cities in the Empire today

and are already the capital of Austria

and Hungary it is highly likely that

they would become the dual capitals of

the modern Empire as well. The top five

largest cities in the Empire would be

Vienna, Budapest, Prague, Zagreb and

Krakow. Despite the fact that there

were dozens of languages spoken in the Empire

in 1914. The only official languages were

German and Hungarian. This policy would

likely continue today since these two

languages would be the largest languages

spoken within the country with Hungarian

being understood by 17.5% of the

population and German by 16d00:02:28,060 --> 00:02:30,400 together adding to just over one out of

every three people in the empire but

this would be very problematic for the

other two out of every three people who

wouldn't speak either language and would

serve as another massive problem to

keeping the country together. Czech would

be the third-largest language while

Ukrainian and Russian would also be

major languages understood by over ten

percent of the population to just get to

a point where 75% of the

population could understand each other

you would have to go through seven

languages by also adding Romanian and

Polish since the population that speaks

Ukrainian is also largely the same

population that speaks Russian the

remaining 25% would be

six other various languages meaning that

there would be 13 major languages spoken

within the Empire. All of this land and

people would mean that the modern Empire

would have a GDP of 1.18 Trillion Dollars

which would make the Empire the world's 15 largest economy

ahead of Mexico but remaining just behind

Spain, Australia and Russia

this also means that the Empire would

have a respectable GDP per capita of $17,160.00

which would place it at the 39th

highest in the world ahead of

present-day Estonia and an independent

Slovakia but just behind Trinidad and

Tobago and an independent Czech Republic

with a moderately powerful economy the

Empire would also be estimated to have a

modest military budget of 11.97 billion dollars.

This would be the 19th largest military budget in the world

ahead of Spain but keeping behind the

budgets of both Colombia and the United

Arab Emirates the Imperial budget would

be funding a military with 188,000

active-duty soldiers the 30th largest

military in the world ahead of Germany

and Syria but remaining smaller than

both Morocco and France. Pretty much all of

the Empire's territory will be located

inside Europe except for this tiny tiny

chunk of China less than one square

kilometer insides in the city of Tianjin.

Austria-Hungary occupied this tiny piece

of land at sovereign territory briefly

between 1901 and 1917 when it was

return to China but since we're

recreating the Empire to exact borders

in 1914 this area would have to be

returned. About 30,000 Chinese citizens

living here what suddenly find

themselves to be citizens of the

Austro-Hungarian Empire as a result. As

far as religion goes Catholics would

account for the majority of the

population at 44.37700:04:42,200 --> 00:04:44,389 of the population while Orthodox

persons would be the second-largest at

18.2%. Protestants would only be

4% while Sunni Muslims would

be just 3.3200:04:51,949 --> 00:04:54,590 Austria-Hungary today would also have a

very large Atheist population accounting

for nearly 20% of the entire

population for nearly one out of every

five people finally we would have to

settle on somebody to become the

present-day emperor of the Empire. This

guy named Otto Von Habsburg was the last

crown prince of the Austro-Hungarian

Empire, born in 1912 is the son of the

last real emperor. He didn't renounce his

claim to the throne of Austria until

1961 and died somewhat recently in 2011

at the age of 98.

His son, Carl Von Habsburg who is still alive today

therefore would likely become the

Emperor of this new empire, the direct

grandson of the last reigning emperor in 1918.

But would this Empire actually be

able to last very long with all of its

difficulties or would it collapse into

the dustbin of history just like the old

Empire did in 1918?

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