The volume of space claimed in the name of the Emperor of Mankind contains hundreds of millions of stars, many host to their own planetary systems, and yet there are only an estimated million or so planetary governors occupying the thrones of the Imperium's worlds. The Imperium of Man is spread impossibly thin across an estimated two-thirds of the entire Milky Way Galaxy.
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No full list could ever be compiled because the Imperium of Man consists of over one million inhabited worlds, with many other habitable planets also populated by various intelligent xenos species like the Aeldari, T'au and the Orks. This page presents an incomplete and select list of the more notable planets in the Warhammer 40,000 universe.
The Milky Way Galaxy as it was in the Time of Ending before the birth of the Great Rift in the late 41st Millennium, displaying the location of many important Imperial worlds.