List of countries by area

Here is a list of the countries of the world in order of size. Values are given using SI (metric) units. Dependencies are shown with the main country; the total area is also given, but the list is ordered according to the areas excluding dependencies.

Areas are including inland water bodies (lakes, reservoirs, rivers).

Table of contents

1 List of countries by area with dependencies shown with the main country

2 Note

3 List of countries and dependencies, all ordered according to area

4 Remarks

5 Source

List of countries by area with dependencies shown with the main country

Pos	Country	Area (km²)
1	Russia	17,075,200
2	Canada	9,976,140
3	United States	9,629,091
	American Samoa	199
	Baker Island	1
	Guam	549
	Howland Island	1
	Jarvis Island	4
	Johnston Atoll	3
	Kingman Reef	1
	Midway Atoll	6
	Navassa Island	5
	Northern Mariana Islands	477
	Palmyra Atoll	12
	Puerto Rico	9,104
	United States Virgin Islands	352
	Wake Island	6
	Total	9,639,810
4	People's Republic of China (mainland only)	9,596,960
	Hong Kong	1,092
	Macau	25
	Total	9,598,077
5	Brazil	8,511,965
6	Australia	7,686,850
	Ashmore and Cartier Islands	5
	Christmas Island	135
	Cocos (Keeling) Islands	14
	Coral Sea Islands	3
	Heard Island and McDonald Islands	412
	Norfolk Island	34
	Total	7,687,453
7	India	3,287,590
8	Argentina	2,766,890
9	Kazakhstan	2,727,300
10	Sudan	2,505,810
11	Algeria	2,381,740
12	Congo-Kinshasa	2,345,410
13	Saudi Arabia	2,218,000
14	Mexico	1,972,550
15	Indonesia	1,904,556
16	Libya	1,759,540
17	Iran	1,648,000
18	Mongolia	1,565,000
19	Peru	1,285,220
20	Chad	1,284,000
21	Niger	1,267,000
22	Angola	1,246,700
23	Mali	1,240,000
24	South Africa	1,219,912
25	Colombia	1,138,910
26	Ethiopia	1,127,127
27	Bolivia	1,098,580
28	Mauritania	1,030,700
29	Egypt	1,001,450
30	Tanzania	948,087
31	Nigeria	923,768
32	Venezuela	912,050
33	Namibia	825,418
34	Pakistan	803,940
35	Mozambique	801,590
36	Turkey	780,580
37	Chile	756,950
38	Zambia	752,614
39	Myanmar	678,500
40	Afghanistan	647,500
41	Somalia	637,657
42	Central African Republic	622,984
43	Ukraine	603,700
44	Botswana	600,370
45	Madagascar	587,040
46	Kenya	582,650
47	France	547,030
	Bassas da India	0.2
	Clipperton Island	6
	Europa Island	28
	French Southern and Antarctic Lands	7,829
	French Guiana	91,000
	French Polynesia	4,167
	Glorioso Islands	5
	Guadeloupe	1,780
	Juan de Nova Island	4
	Martinique	1,100
	Mayotte	374
	New Caledonia	19,060
	Réunion	2,517
	Saint-Pierre and Miquelon	242
	Tromelin Island	1
	Wallis and Futuna	274
	Total	675,417
48	Yemen	527,970
49	Thailand	514,000
50	Spain	504,782
51	Turkmenistan	488,100
52	Cameroon	475,440
53	Papua New Guinea	462,840
54	Sweden	449,964
55	Uzbekistan	447,400
56	Morocco	446,550
	Western Sahara	266,000
	Total	712,550
57	Iraq	437,072
58	Paraguay	406,750
59	Zimbabwe	390,580
60	Japan	377,835
61	Germany	357,021
62	Congo-Brazzaville	342,000
63	Finland	337,030
64	Malaysia	329,750
65	Vietnam	329,560
66	Norway	324,220
	Bouvet Island	58
	Jan Mayen	373
	Svalbard	62,049
	Total	386,700
67	Côte d'Ivoire	322,460
68	Poland	312,685
82	Oman	309,500
69	Italy	301,230
70	Philippines	300,000
71	Ecuador	283,560
72	Burkina Faso	274,200
73	New Zealand	268,680
	Cook Islands	240
	Niue	260
	Tokelau	10
	Total	269,190
74	Gabon	267,667
75	Guinea	245,857
76	United Kingdom	244,820
	Anguilla	102
	British Indian Ocean Territory	60
	British Virgin Islands	153
	Bermuda	53
	Cayman Islands	262
	Falkland Islands	12,173
	Gibraltar	6
	Guernsey	78
	Isle of Man	572
	Jersey	116
	Montserrat	102
	Pitcairn Islands	47
	Saint Helena	410
	South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands	3,903
	Turks and Caicos Islands	430
	Total	263,287
77	Ghana	238,540
78	Romania	237,500
79	Laos	236,800
80	Uganda	236,040
81	Guyana	214,970
83	Belarus	207,600
84	Kyrgyzstan	198,500
85	Senegal	196,190
86	Syria	185,180
87	Cambodia	181,040
88	Uruguay	176,220
89	Tunisia	163,610
90	Suriname	163,270
91	Bangladesh	144,000
92	Tajikistan	143,100
93	Nepal	140,800
94	Greece	131,940
95	Nicaragua	129,494
96	Eritrea	121,320
97	North Korea	120,540
98	Malawi	118,480
99	Benin	112,620
100	Honduras	112,090
101	Liberia	111,370
102	Bulgaria	110,910
103	Guatemala	108,890
104	Iceland	103,000
105	Serbia and Montenegro	102,173
106	Cuba	100,860
107	South Korea	98,480
108	Hungary	93,030
109	Portugal	92,391
110	Jordan	92,300
111	Azerbaijan	86,600
112	Austria	83,858
113	United Arab Emirates	82,880
114	Czech Republic	78,866
115	Panama	78,200
116	Sierra Leone	71,740
117	Republic of Ireland	70,273
118	Georgia	69,700
119	Sri Lanka	65,610
120	Lithuania	65,200
121	Latvia	64,589
122	Togo	56,785
123	Croatia	56,542
124	Bosnia-Herzegovina	51,129
125	Costa Rica	51,100
126	Slovakia	48,845
127	Dominican Republic	48,730
128	Bhutan	47,000
129	Estonia	45,226
130	Denmark	43,094
	Faroe Islands	1,399
	Greenland	2,166,086
	Total	2,210,579
131	Netherlands	41,526
	Aruba	193
	Netherlands Antilles	960
	Total	42,679
132	Switzerland	41,290
133	Guinea-Bissau	36,120
134	Republic of China (Taiwan, Quemoy, Matsu)	35,980
135	Moldova	33,843
136	Belgium	32,545
137	Lesotho	30,355
138	Armenia	29,800
139	Albania	28,748
140	Solomon Islands	28,450
141	Equatorial Guinea	28,051
142	Burundi	27,830
143	Haiti	27,750
144	Rwanda	26,338
145	Republic of Macedonia	25,333
146	Belize	22,966
147	Djibouti	22,000
148	El Salvador	21,040
149	Israel	20,770
	Gaza Strip	360
	West Bank	5,860
	Total	26,990
150	Slovenia	20,253
151	Fiji	18,270
152	Kuwait	17,820
153	Swaziland	17,363
154	East Timor	14,874
155	Bahamas	13,940
156	Vanuatu	12,200
157	Qatar	11,437
158	The Gambia	11,300
159	Jamaica	10,990
160	Lebanon	10,452
161	Cyprus	9,250
162	Brunei	5,770
163	Trinidad and Tobago	5,128
164	Cape Verde	4,033
165	Samoa	2,860
166	Luxembourg	2,586
167	Comoros	2,170
168	Mauritius	1,860
169	São Tomé and Príncipe	1,001
170	Dominica	754
171	Tonga	748
172	Kiribati	717
173	Micronesia	702
174	Singapore	692.7
175	Bahrain	665
176	Saint Lucia	620
177	Seychelles	455
178	Andorra	468
179	Palau	458
180	Antigua and Barbuda	442
181	Barbados	430
182	Saint Vincent and the Grenadines	389
183	Grenada	340
184	Malta	316
185	Maldives	300
186	Saint Kitts and Nevis	261
187	Marshall Islands	181
188	Liechtenstein	160
189	San Marino	61.2
190	Tuvalu	26
191	Nauru	21
192	Monaco	1.95
193	Vatican City	0.44

Note

The 193 countries in the list are the 191 United Nations member states plus the Republic of China (Taiwan) and the Holy See (Vatican City).

The list also shows the 11 countries which have a total of 66 dependencies, of which 23 are not permanently inhabited and therefore not in the List of countries by population. The total is 259 countries and dependencies.

Compare with List of dependent territories, which lists 70 dependencies.

List of countries and dependencies, all ordered according to area

The list includes the world and the oceans (rank nrs. 1,2,3,4,5,7), Antarctica (nr. 8), the Spratly Islands (claimed by various countries; nr 256) and the 259 countries and dependencies which are also listed above.

Pos	Country	Area (km²)
1	World	510,072,000
2	Pacific Ocean	155,557,000
3	Atlantic Ocean	76,762,000
4	Indian Ocean	68,556,000
5	Southern Ocean	20,327,000
6	Russia	17,075,200
7	Arctic Ocean	14,056,000
8	Antarctica	14,000,000
9	Canada	9,976,140
10	United States	9,629,091
11	People's Republic of China	9,596,960
12	Brazil	8,511,965
13	Australia	7,686,850
14	India	3,287,590
15	Argentina	2,766,890
16	Kazakhstan	2,717,300
17	Sudan	2,505,810
18	Algeria	2,381,740
19	Congo, Democratic Republic of the	2,345,410
20	Greenland	2,166,086
21	Mexico	1,972,550
22	Saudi Arabia	1,960,582
23	Indonesia	1,919,440
24	Libya	1,759,540
25	Iran	1,648,000
26	Mongolia	1,565,000
27	Peru	1,285,220
28	Chad	1,284,000
29	Niger	1,267,000
30	Angola	1,246,700
31	Mali	1,240,000
32	South Africa	1,219,912
33	Colombia	1,138,910
34	Ethiopia	1,127,127
35	Bolivia	1,098,580
36	Mauritania	1,030,700
37	Egypt	1,001,450
38	Tanzania	945,087
39	Nigeria	923,768
40	Venezuela	912,050
41	Namibia	825,418
42	Pakistan	803,940
43	Mozambique	801,590
44	Turkey	780,580
45	Chile	756,950
46	Zambia	752,614
47	Myanmar	678,500
48	Afghanistan	647,500
49	Somalia	637,657
50	Central African Republic	622,984
51	Ukraine	603,700
52	Botswana	600,370
53	Madagascar	587,040
54	Kenya	582,650
55	France	547,030
56	Yemen	527,970
57	Thailand	514,000
58	Spain	504,782
59	Turkmenistan	488,100
60	Cameroon	475,440
61	Papua New Guinea	462,840
62	Sweden	449,964
63	Uzbekistan	447,400
64	Morocco	446,550
65	Iraq	437,072
66	Paraguay	406,750
67	Zimbabwe	390,580
68	Japan	377,835
69	Germany	357,021
70	Congo, Republic of the	342,000
71	Finland	337,030
72	Malaysia	329,750
73	Vietnam	329,560
74	Norway	324,220
75	Côte d'Ivoire	322,460
76	Poland	312,685
77	Italy	301,230
78	Philippines	300,000
79	Ecuador	283,560
80	Burkina Faso	274,200
81	New Zealand	268,680
82	Gabon	267,667
83	Western Sahara	266,000
84	Guinea	245,857
85	United Kingdom	244,820
86	Ghana	239,460
87	Romania	237,500
88	Laos	236,800
89	Uganda	236,040
90	Guyana	214,970
91	Oman	309,500
92	Belarus	207,600
93	Kyrgyzstan	198,500
94	Senegal	196,190
95	Syria	185,180
96	Cambodia	181,040
97	Uruguay	176,220
98	Tunisia	163,610
99	Suriname	163,270
100	Bangladesh	144,000
101	Tajikistan	143,100
102	Nepal	140,800
103	Greece	131,940
104	Nicaragua	129,494
105	Eritrea	121,320
106	Korea, North	120,540
107	Malawi	118,480
108	Benin	112,620
109	Honduras	112,090
110	Liberia	111,370
111	Bulgaria	110,910
112	Cuba	110,860
113	Guatemala	108,890
114	Iceland	103,000
115	Serbia and Montenegro	102,350
116	Korea, South	98,480
117	Hungary	93,030
118	Portugal	92,391
119	Jordan	92,300
120	French Guiana	91,000
121	Azerbaijan	86,600
122	Austria	83,858
123	United Arab Emirates	82,880
124	Czech Republic	78,866
125	Panama	78,200
126	Sierra Leone	71,740
127	Ireland	70,273
128	Georgia	69,700
129	Sri Lanka	65,610
130	Lithuania	65,200
131	Latvia	64,589
132	Svalbard	62,049
133	Togo	56,785
134	Croatia	56,542
135	Bosnia and Herzegovina	51,129
136	Costa Rica	51,100
137	Slovakia	48,845
138	Dominican Republic	48,730
139	Bhutan	47,000
140	Estonia	45,226
141	Denmark	43,094
142	Netherlands	41,526
143	Switzerland	41,290
144	Guinea-Bissau	36,120
145	Republic of China (Taiwan)	35,980
146	Moldova	33,843
147	Belgium	30,510
148	Lesotho	30,355
149	Armenia	29,800
150	Albania	28,748
151	Solomon Islands	28,450
152	Equatorial Guinea	28,051
153	Burundi	27,830
154	Haiti	27,750
155	Rwanda	26,338
156	Republic of Macedonia	25,333
157	Djibouti	23,000
158	Belize	22,966
159	El Salvador	21,040
160	Israel	20,770
161	Slovenia	20,273
162	New Caledonia	19,060
163	Fiji	18,270
164	Kuwait	17,820
165	Swaziland	17,363
166	East Timor	15,007
167	Bahamas, The	13,940
168	Vanuatu	12,200
169	Falkland Islands (Islas Malvinas)	12,173
170	Qatar	11,437
171	Gambia, The	11,300
172	Jamaica	10,991
173	Lebanon	10,452
174	Cyprus	9,250
175	Puerto Rico	9,104
176	French Southern and Antarctic Lands	7,829
177	West Bank	5,860
178	Brunei	5,770
179	Trinidad and Tobago	5,128
180	French Polynesia	4,167
181	Cape Verde	4,033
182	South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands	3,903
183	Samoa	2,944
184	Luxembourg	2,586
185	Réunion	2,517
186	Comoros	2,170
187	Mauritius	2,040
188	Guadeloupe	1,780
189	Faroe Islands	1,399
190	Martinique	1,100
191	Hong Kong	1,092
192	São Tomé and Príncipe	1,001
193	Netherlands Antilles	960
194	Kiribati	811
195	Dominica	754
196	Tonga	748
197	Micronesia, Federated States of	702
198	Singapore	693
199	Bahrain	665
200	Saint Lucia	616
201	Man, Isle of	572
202	Guam	549
203	Northern Mariana Islands	477
204	Andorra	468
205	Palau	458
206	Seychelles	455
207	Antigua and Barbuda	443
208	Barbados	431
209	Turks and Caicos Islands	430
210	Heard Island and McDonald Islands	412
211	Saint Helena	410
212	Saint Vincent and the Grenadines	389
213	Mayotte	374
214	Jan Mayen	373
215	Gaza Strip	360
216	Virgin Islands	352
217	Grenada	344
218	Malta	316
219	Maldives	300
220	Wallis and Futuna	274
221	Cayman Islands	262
222	Saint Kitts and Nevis	261
223	Niue	260
224	Saint-Pierre and Miquelon	242
225	Cook Islands	240
226	American Samoa	199
227	Aruba	193
228	Marshall Islands	181
229	Liechtenstein	160
230	British Virgin Islands	153
231	Christmas Island	135
232	Jersey	116
233	Anguilla	102
234	Montserrat	102
235	Guernsey	78
236	San Marino	61
237	British Indian Ocean Territory	60
238	Bouvet Island	59
239	Bermuda	53
240	Pitcairn Islands	47
241	Norfolk Island	35
242	Europa Island	28
243	Tuvalu	26
244	Macau	25
245	Nauru	21
246	Cocos (Keeling) Islands	14
247	Palmyra Atoll	12
248	Tokelau	10
249	Gibraltar	7
250	Wake Island	7
251	Midway Atoll	6
252	Clipperton Island	6
253	Navassa Island	5
254	Ashmore and Cartier Islands	5
255	Glorioso Islands	5
256	Spratly Islands	5
257	Jarvis Island	5
258	Juan de Nova Island	4
259	Coral Sea Islands	3
260	Johnston Atoll	3
261	Monaco	2
262	Howland Island	2
263	Baker Island	1
264	Kingman Reef	1
265	Tromelin Island	1
266	Holy See (Vatican City)	0.44
267	Bassas da India	0.2

Remarks

The European Union is 3,892,685 km² , and would be the 7^th biggest country by area, if it were counted as a country.

Source

CIA World Factbook, 1 August, 2003.