// Modern era
Austria-Hungary
- Period
- AD 1868 – AD 1918
- Duration
- approx. 50 years
- Greatest extent
- around AD 1918
- Area (max.)
- approx. 929,000 km²
Period and duration
Austria-Hungary — according to the map data from AD 1868 to AD 1918, roughly 50 years. The dates refer to the time the empire is drawn as its own territory on the world map; historians sometimes date its founding and end differently.
Greatest extent
Austria-Hungary — greatest extent around AD 1918: the mapped borders then cover about 929,000 km², roughly 0.6% of Earth's land area. The area is calculated from the border lines of the map and is therefore an approximation.
Predecessors and successors
States that ruled the same territory directly before and after:
Before (AD 1867)
- Austrian Empire
- United Principalities of Moldavia and Wallachia
- Ottoman Empire
After
- Kingdom of Romania
- Yugoslavia
- Czechoslovakia
- Hungarian Republic
Neighbours around AD 1918
The largest states in the region at the same time:
- British Empire
- Russian Republic
- French Third Republic
- British Colonial Empire
- French Africa
- British Africa
- United States of America
- Netherlands
Learn more
- Open the world map in AD 1918 — tap the empire for a detailed description
- Austria-Hungary on Wikipedia
- All 300 empires at a glance
Borders and dates: Cliopatria / Seshat Global History Databank (CC BY 4.0). Coastlines: Natural Earth. Text: Centaurian.