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I'd say its America. The thing is that America has had many protectorates in its past. The Phillipines for one. Now, I know that colonies and protectorates are different things, but when we draw maps of other empires such as those of the Britsh and French we include these as colonies so its only fair to count these in as well. Not to mention that as a country America is HUGE. Currently standing at over 9 million sq km, she is larger than many past colonial empires, such as those of the Roman Empire, the Ottoman Empire, the Imperial German empire (WWI, not Nazis, but America is also bigger than Nazi Empire so i guess it counts), the Belgian, Italian, even the French Empire.
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