What if the Austro-Hungarian Empire was restored after 100 years? – VIDEO

Next year marks the 100^th anniversary of the break-up of the Austro-Hungarian Empire (Austria-Hungary). To commemorate the historic event a YouTube channel, called RealLifeLore, published a detailed analytical video of what would happen if the monarchy was reunited in 2018.

A little historic background: The Austro-Hungarian Empire, or Austria-Hungary, was a special dualism, more precisely a confederation that existed from 1867 until 1918 in Central Europe. It was made up of the Kingdom of Hungary and the Habsburg Empire, which was mostly a unity of independent states united by a joined ruler, joined foreign affairs, military affairs and financial background.

The video gives a quite detailed insight into the structure of the potentially reunited empire. Szeretlekmagyarorszag.hu collected the main aspects the video touches upon:

the change would affect the territories of 14 countries
the empire would be the 39^th biggest country in the world and the second biggest European country after Russia
its population would exceed 68 million, meaning that it would have the third biggest population in Europe after Russia and Germany
the majority of the population would speak Hungarian and German as their mother tongue, but they would still only add up to 1/3 of the whole population
the empire would probably have two capitals: Budapest and Vienna
the empire’s military force would reach 188,000 units
a tiny Chinese territory would also be part of the empire
and the emperor would probably be Charles Habsburg