# Map of the Roman Empire

Source page: https://geographichistory.app/empire/roman-empire/

On the Geographic History map, the Roman Empire appears from 26 BC to AD 395. It reaches its largest mapped extent in AD 117: about 5.3 million km² across 333 provinces.

The Roman Empire began in 27 BC, when Octavian took the title Augustus, and at its peak under Trajan in AD 117 it surrounded the whole Mediterranean, from Britain to Mesopotamia. Its roads, law, Latin language and cities shaped Europe for centuries afterwards. After the death of Theodosius I in 395 it was permanently divided into western and eastern halves.

## Mapped area by year (km²)

- 26 BC: 3,624,000
- 6 BC: 3,618,000
- AD 14: 3,710,000
- AD 34: 3,841,000
- AD 54: 4,121,000
- AD 74: 4,243,000
- AD 94: 4,337,000
- AD 114: 4,642,000
- AD 134: 4,666,000
- AD 154: 4,666,000
- AD 174: 4,649,000
- AD 194: 4,649,000
- AD 214: 4,649,000
- AD 234: 4,649,000
- AD 254: 4,744,000
- AD 274: 4,571,000
- AD 294: 4,476,000
- AD 314: 4,476,000
- AD 334: 4,476,000
- AD 354: 4,411,000
- AD 374: 4,386,000
- AD 394: 4,412,000

## About this map

Territory comes from the Chronas historical dataset used by the Geographic History app. Areas are approximate, computed from about 2,400 province shapes, and describe this map rather than official historical figures - border data for the ancient and medieval world is necessarily a reconstruction.