At its height in the year 1279,

the Empire took up 16% of all of the land on Earth and

was home to about one in every 4

humans on the planet.

Like all empires the Mongols came and went but what if

suddenly the Empire was recreated

tomorrow.

This is an exploration of what this

hypothetically would look like if we can

suspend disbelief that this could ever ever happen.

So this is a map of the

current world and this is a map of the

Mongol Empire circa 1279 placed on top.

The Empire would stretch all the way

from South Korea to modern-day Poland

but it could have been even bigger if a

few more things have gone right for the Mongols.

They tried invading Japan twice

but we're twice smacked down by some

angry weather who didn't think that it

was quite fair for the Mongols to be using boats.

And speaking of boats they

also tried invading Indonesia once, but

guerrilla fighting in the jungle in the

13th century wasn't exactly the biggest

strength of the Mongol Empire.

They also pushed west as far as Gaza in Palestine

and raided into Austria and northern

Italy in Europe before being pushed back.

So, this map is the maximum amount of

land they ever controlled at one time in 1279

So this would be the borders of the

modern-day Mongol Empire recreated today.

28 different countries would lose all or

some of their territory to this

monstrosity and the total population of this beast

would be around 1,900,459,000

making it by far the largest country in the world in

terms of both size and population just

like the old Mongol Empire was.

About one out of every four people in the modern

world would be a citizen of this Empire

just like in the 13th century.

And out of the 15 biggest cities in the Empire,

11 out of them would all be located in China,

in fact only 1 of the 15 biggest

cities would even be located outside of Asia, Moscow in Europe.

the 3 biggest cities would be Moscow, Beijing & Shanghai

And we would need to decide on

a capital for the country to get behind.

You may think that a logical choice

would be Ulaanbaatar which is the

current capital of Mongolia,

but Ulaanbaatar wasn't even

founded until 1693 long after the Mongol

Empire had already collapsed and only

has a population of 1.3 million people today,

or about half of all of Mongolia's

modern population.

The city is surrounded by extremely sparsely populated land and is

is very far away from the rest of the Empire,

so the most logical choice of a capital

would probably be Beijing instead

which not only is the current

Capital of China but was actually a

historical capital of the Mongol Empire

under this guy, Kublai Khan.

Back when it was known as Khanbaliq.

Beijing would be the second

biggest city in the Empire and has

enormous infrastructure already in place

since it is already the Capital of China

and we would of course have to rename

the city back to Khanbaliq.

*whispering* Sorry Beijing.

As for the actual people that would make up this Empire.

66% or two-thirds of the population would be

ethnic Han Chinese which would likely dominate the country

The next two biggest ethnic groups would be the

Russians & Koreans who would account

for 6% and 4% of the

population respectively.

And the remaining 28% would be

a mix of dozens of different groups.

Hilariously in the modern Mongol Empire,

ethnic Mongols themselves would only

account for 0.16% of the total population.

As for languages, about

51% of everybody in this country

would be speaking or able to understand

Mandarin Chinese, which would likely

become the official or one of the official languages.

Russian would be understood by around 11% of

the country and would be the

second-largest language.

A combination of

three other Chinese languages known as

Wu, Yue and Min combined would be

understood by 10.5% of everybody

and the next two biggest languages would

be Korean and Urdu.

The Empire would also

be extremely religiously diverse and

surely everybody living inside would

think that that's going to be just fine.

About 58.5% of everybody would

adhere to Traditional Chinese Folk Religions

while Sunni Islam would be the

2nd largest belief system at 12.1% of the population

Buddhism would be next at 5.3% followed by

Orthodox Christianity at 4.6%.

Shia Islam at 4.5%.

Protestants at 2.2% and Catholics at 0.8500:04:20,420 --> 00:04:22,460 Atheist and non-religious

persons would account for the remaining

12% of the population.

This also means that the modern Mongol

Empire would be the world's largest Muslim country,

largest Atheist country

and 3rd largest Christian country by numbers of people.

The Mongol Empire would also have a very powerful economy

with a nominal GDP of 17.778 trillion U.S. dollars

which means that

despite having all of this land.

It would still only be the world's second-largest

economy remaining behind the United States.

The GDP per capita would be $9355

meaning the citizens of the

country would be ranked with the 62nd

best living standards in the world,

slightly behind the conditions in Malaysia and Mexico.

Finally the modern

Mongol Empire would also have an

estimated military size of 6,131,000 active soldiers

making the Mongol military by far the largest in the world.

It's fascinating to think what this

country would actually look like, what

would his government look like, how would

conduct its diplomacy with the rest of

the world and could it actually survive

for very long?

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