What is the worlds ten largest armies? and where does the UK come in the list?
2007-12-31 06:56:54 · 11 answers · asked by Anonymous in Politics & Government ➔ Military
Ignore most of the answers on here; what they have given you is the total number of military personnel, which include reserves, paramilitary, navy, air force etc. You asked about the world’s 10 largest Armies, which are (with total ACTIVE soldiers in brackets);
China (1.6 million)
India (1.3 million)
North Korea (1 million)
Pakistan (619,000)
South Korea (560,000)
Turkey (550,000)
United States (519,000)
Vietnam (450,000)
Russia (395,000)
Iran (350,000)
The UK by contrast has around 102,000 active troops.
However to give you some added information.
The top 10 biggest spenders on there military are;
United States ($547 billion)
United Kingdom ($70 billion)
France ($65 billion)
Germany ($58 billion)
Japan ($49 billion)
China ($45 billion)
Italy ($34 billion)
Russia ($32 billion)
Saudi Arabia ($31 billion)
South Korea ($26 billion)
The United States has the worlds largest Navy, the UK has the worlds second largest Navy by gross tonnage, closely followed by Russia, China and France respectively.
The UK is considered second only to the United States in our ability to project power over sustained periods.
The UK has the second largest number of Aircraft carrier's in the world after the US - The world has 22 carriers (11 US, 3 UK, 2 Italy and 1 each for France, India, Russia, Spain, Brazil Thailand)
The UK is 1 of only 5 nations to operate Nuclear Powered submarines (US, UK, France, Russia and China) and has more than France and China and has more operation than all but the US.
Please be aware most of the figures from others seem to come from wikipedia, not the most reliable source of information.
2008-01-01 00:44:41 · answer #1 · answered by Wren M 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Worlds Largest Armies
2016-10-03 02:25:17 · answer #2 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Ten top countries by number of total troops:
Iran: 12,285,600
Vietnam: 9,564,000
China: 7,024,000
North Korea: 5,995,000
South Korea: 5,209,000
Russia: 3,796,100
India: 3,773,300
United States: 2,338,213
Note: These statistics include paramilitary organizations.
United Kingdom: 421,830, #31 on the list
2007-12-31 21:44:44 · answer #3 · answered by CanadianFundamentalist 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋
China and North Korea come high.
2007-12-31 08:30:02 · answer #4 · answered by Maxi Robespierre 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
a more appropriate measure is by overall military strength (including air force and navy) i.e. ability and inclination to project power - although this measure is open to debate. i would say:
USA
UK
Russia
China
Israel
Germany
France
Italy
India
Canada (?)
(last 6 are certainly open to debate i.e. france is decreasing its military budget whilst india is increasing it)
2007-12-31 07:07:58 · answer #5 · answered by <><><> 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I think it refers to the entire "force" as opposed to actual soldier numbers?
I still think we'd be pretty low in the league table?
2007-12-31 07:06:38 · answer #6 · answered by john c 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
By largest , I assume you mean number of soldiers. If so, it goes like this.
China
USA
India
N Korea
Russia
S Korea
Pakistan
Iran
Turkey
Vietnam
The UK is 27th.
2007-12-31 07:03:51 · answer #7 · answered by booman17 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
The ones in your Sleevies......
I think its China 1st..... Turkey 2nd and we're probably about 26th or summink.... but our soldiers KICK Ar$e old boy.
Ooooh.... look at him down there makin me look all StoOopid with my Turkey 2nd doo-dar !
2007-12-31 07:03:35 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
At the bottom I expect, we are too busy helping the Yanks
2007-12-31 07:02:52 · answer #9 · answered by Anthony M 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Is this:
http://nz.youtube.com/watch?v=0_Ji9yqlKV0
Help me with this please:
http://uk.answers.yahoo.com/question/index;_ylt=Aj9aaczuX0.aQjmeWS9L3zQhBgx.;_ylv=3?qid=20071227185557AAucuat
Greetings.
From United Kingdom.
2007-12-31 21:18:23 · answer #10 · answered by ƟƝƂƏƙƎƝƉƐ ƘƦăƒƑƭƐƃƖƞĝ 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋