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There's a reason why a huge portion of the population in the western hemisphere speaks Spanish.

And why quite a bit of Africa speaks French...

Perhaps not truly unique, but two things about the British Empire perhaps make it sting a little more:

1) It ended more recently than other European empires.

2) "The sun never sets on the British Empire". It was huge.

2 was also true of Spain at some point.

Plenty of countries in Asia too.

Russia happens to be in both, and it definitely suffers from this nostalgia.

Seems to me if anywhere Mogolia would probably suffer the most from this.

Except it ended 700 years ago, not less than 100.