Shocking map shows all the countries Britain has invaded - only 22 left untouched

Great Britain has enactment it astir a spot (Image: Travel Encyclopedia)

A representation showing each the countries that Britain has invaded implicit the years reveals determination are lone 22 countries that person not been touched by the UK's subject might. 

Of the 193 countries successful the world, Great Britain has conducted military campaigns of 1 benignant oregon different successful 171 of them. In fact, the UK has invaded much countries than different federation successful history.

It has fought successful conflicts, oregon had immoderate power over, nine-out-of-ten of the world's existent UN subordinate states. This is according to historiographer Stuart Laycock, who wrote 2012's  'All the Countries We've Ever Invaded: And the Few We Never Got Round To'.

Afghnistan was the UK's astir recemt subject run (Image: Getty)

Britain's Empire began successful the 1500s with trading posts successful the Americas and Africa. By the 1800s, it had dispersed crossed Asia and Australasia. 

The British Empire was the biggest the satellite has seen (Image: Getty)

By 1912, the British Empire ruled implicit 412 cardinal radical - which was  23 per cent of the planetary colonisation astatine the time. It covered  24 per cent of the earth.

However, successful presumption of longevity, the British Empire doesn't adjacent marque it into the apical 10. Most hold the British Empire lasted for astir 400 years - fom the 16th period until the precocious 20th century.

However, the Roman Empire past for astir 1,500 years - from  27 BCE to 1453 CE. It is wide considered to beryllium the longer- lasting Empire.

Meanwhile, the ancient Egyptian civilization lasted for much than 3,000 years, from astir 3100 BCE to 30 CE. However, it consisted of aggregate antithetic empires and was ruled by thirty-one different dynasties, which are classified into Old, Middle and New Kingdoms.

Several Empires built by European nations besides lasted for longer than the British Empire. These see the Republic of Venice, The Holy Roman Empire and the Portuguese Empire.

The past Egyptian civilization lasted for much than 3,000 years (Image: Getty)

Nonetheless, it could beryllium argued that Britain's Empire shaped the modern satellite arsenic overmuch immoderate of the others person done. Many erstwhile colonies are present members of the Commonwealth, a postulation of 15 nations with King Charles arsenic caput of state.

In the synopsis for his book, Laycock writes: "A batch of radical are vaguely alert that a 4th of the globe was erstwhile pink, but that’s not adjacent fractional the story. We’re a stroppy, dynamic, irrepressible federation and this is however we changed the world, often erstwhile it didn’t inquire to beryllium changed!"

Here is simply a afloat database of the 22 countries that person not been invaded by Britain: 

• Andorra
• Belarus
• Bolivia
• Burundi
• Central African Republic
• Chad
• Congo
• Guatemala
• Ivory Coast
• Kyrgyzstan
• Liechtenstein
• Luxembourg
• Mali
• Marshall Islands
• Monaco
• Mongolia
• Paraguay
• Sao Tome and Principe
• Sweden
• Tajikistan
• Uzbekistan
• Vatican City.