# World Empires — Top Empires by Land Mass

A vertical animated-globe countdown that ranks seven historical empires by maximum mapped land area, from the Spanish Empire to the British Empire. Each empire gets a rotating globe, a highlighted territory and a counting km² figure.

- Code: EX-0075
- Kind: Explainer
- Format: Kinetic data film
- Length: 30.1s · 10 beats · 20 beats/min · 0 hard cuts
- Industry: Education, Media, Data and analytics
- Style: Data viz, Maps, Dark UI, Minimal, No voiceover, Music-led, Serif type, Slow and deliberate
- Original: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=enKUxdTZDHU
- Full breakdown: https://cutmap.co/v/world-empires-top-empires-by-land-mass

## The breakdown

The full breakdown has eleven sheets: Snapshot, Opening, Structure, Timeline, Rhythm, Look, Movement, Sound & words, Why it works, Production, Build brief. It is available to Cutmap Pro members at https://cutmap.co/v/world-empires-top-empires-by-land-mass.