The Malo Empire was vast.
As one of the two great empires on the Sains Continent, the Malo Empire had a territory dozens of times larger than a small country like the Lampari Kingdom, even judging from the continental map alone.
As for the Stantin Duchy, which was several times smaller than even the Lampari Kingdom, it could not begin to compare with the Malo Empire.
Although Xu Yi could not obtain precise figures, his experience living in the Lampari Kingdom suggested that its area was roughly comparable to a medium-sized province of the Celestial Empire back on Earth.
By that estimate, the Malo Empire was almost as large as the entire Celestial Empire on Earth. It certainly qualified as an enormous empire.
Yet, to Xu Yi's surprise, this vast empire did not have a population dozens of times greater than the Lampari Kingdom's to match its size.
According to the approximate figures Marquis Southgate provided, the Malo Empire currently had a total population of just over fifty million, only a little more than ten times that of the Lampari Kingdom.
Even accounting for the people neither country could accurately count, that disparity would not grow much larger.
Having only a little over fifty million people across such a vast territory meant that the Malo Empire had an extremely low population density, something Xu Yi, who had transmigrated from the Celestial Empire on Earth, found very hard to get used to.
Take Marquis Southgate's private fief, for example. Had he lived in the Lampari Kingdom, his rank as a marquis might have earned him a fief of around fifty square kilometers.
In the Malo Empire, however, his private fief covered an astonishing area of more than a thousand square kilometers, enough to rival a somewhat smaller city as Xu Yi