AHC: British owned One-Third of Earth's Population and Total Land Area

So, as we already know, British Empire were owning a quarter of Earth's population and total land area...while the challenge is to make the Brits owned one-third of them...

Bonus point for a map...and multiple bonus points if United States still won the ARW...
 
World War 1 is UK + Germany vs Russia, France, Italy.

UK and Germany split the winnings in colonies. UK makes most gains. Germany makes most gains in Europe.
 
Didn't Britain have two fifths of the land?:confused:

Plus they ruled the waves which gives em' 70% there.:cool:
 

Anaxagoras

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A complete collapse of China in the 19th Century (not at all impossible, since it nearly happened IOTL) might lead to a repeat of India, with the British grabbing direct control of a healthy chunk of the country. There were many in London at the time who fully expected this to happen.
 
The British have a lot more success during the War of 1812, which allows them to prevent American expansion and gives the British clear control of the Oregon Country, perhaps even a few parts of the Louisiana Purchase. During some early 19th century war with Spain, the Brits are extremely successful and grab massive chunks of South America including Argentina, Paraguay, Bolivia, Uruguay, and Chile as well as the Philippines, Cuba, Florida, and Puerto Rico. When Mexico balkanizes, the Yucatan pleas for help, which the Empire is more than happy to give it.

The Empire annexes Greenland, Iceland, and all the Virgin Islands at some point, just to make itself feel powerful. Later, Russia gets tired of its good-for-nothing, money-draining, barren wasteland in North America and sells Alaska it the the British for a decent price (better to get some cash from it than lose it in a war). Italy never gets a foot hold in Africa after the Brits flatten Ottomans and take control of the oil rich Arabian peninsula. That solves the land problem. Then, another war against Germany turns particularly sour for the French and the Dutch, so the French and Dutch colonies join the Empire (directly in the case of Dutch Indonesia and Madagascar, or indirectly, like some sort of defense union, for Algeria and the like) for their own protection.

To top it all off, the Brits send an expedition to Antarctica and claim the land in the same of the Empire to show that the Sun truly never sets on the the British Empire, which now spans from every sea to shining sea as well as pole to pole.

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As Anaxagoras and Ze Kaiser have said, the Americas and China seem the best possible places to expand. Britain getting Alaska would make it by far and away the biggest Empire ever seen, even if a lot of it was empty space. (unlike the densely populated deserts, forests and steppes of Empires like the Mongol or Roman Empire:rolleyes:) If you want the Empire to continue late into the 20th century (or even the 21st ala Rule Britannia), you need to avoid major wars like the World Wars, and ideally avoid movements like the Soviet Union's support for Communist insurgencies. Political reform early on, ideally in the late 19th century under someone like Joseph Chamberlain could lay the groundwork for an Imperial Federation of Britain, South Africa, Rhodesia, Canada, Malaya, New Zealand, any other developed enough areas of Africa and maybe whatever South American holdings Britain acquires. Britain's biggest 19th century rivals would likely be France and Russia, if Britain gets into a war with them in the later 19th century, it may have Austria-Hungary, Prussia/Germany, Italy and maybe even Japan and the Ottomans onside, which should lay the base for a solid alliance going into the 20th century, even if a smaller power like Austria or Italy falls out and of course provides plenty of extra territory. In the 20th century, Russia/ the SU seems the most likely threat, but alliances with Germany, Japan and the Ottomans would keep them contained
 
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