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Rank	Topic	Wikipedia views
1	British Empire	13,989
2	Spanish Empire	4,026
3	French colonial empire	2,776
4	Portuguese Empire	2,007
5	Dutch Empire	1,255
6	Italian Colonial Empire	875
7	Overseas expansion of the United States	737
8	German colonial empire	710
9	Angola (Portugal)	326
10	Belgian colonial empire	283
11	Swedish overseas colonies	264
12	Portuguese colonization of the Americas	253
13	Colonial empire	216
14	Danish Colonial Empire	182
15	Factory (trading post)	142
16	List of possessions of Norway	88
17	Informal Empire	62
18	Possessions of Norway	less than 5 views

Subcategories

• Athenian Empire
• British Empire
• Dutch Empire
• Empire of Japan
• French colonial empire
• German Empire
• Italian colonial empire
• Portuguese Empire
• Spanish Empire
• Territories of the Republic of Venice
• Trading posts

Parent categories

• Colonialism
• Former empires

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