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Rank Order - Area

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Rank	Country	Area (sq km)	Date of Information
1	World	510,072,000	NA
2	Pacific Ocean	155,557,000	NA
3	Atlantic Ocean	76,762,000	NA
4	Indian Ocean	68,556,000	NA
5	Southern Ocean	20,327,000	NA
6	Russia	17,075,200	NA
7	Arctic Ocean	14,056,000	NA
8	Antarctica	14,000,000	NA
9	Canada	9,984,670	NA
10	United States	9,629,091	NA
11	China	9,596,960	NA
12	Brazil	8,511,965	NA
13	Australia	7,686,850	NA
14	India	3,287,590	NA
15	Argentina	2,766,890	NA
16	Kazakhstan	2,717,300	NA
17	Sudan	2,505,810	NA
18	Algeria	2,381,740	NA
19	Congo, Democratic Republic of the	2,345,410	NA
20	Greenland	2,166,086	NA
21	Mexico	1,972,550	NA
22	Saudi Arabia	1,960,582	NA
23	Indonesia	1,919,440	NA
24	Libya	1,759,540	NA
25	Iran	1,648,000	NA
26	Mongolia	1,565,000	NA
27	Peru	1,285,220	NA
28	Chad	1,284,000	NA
29	Niger	1,267,000	NA
30	Angola	1,246,700	NA
31	Mali	1,240,000	NA
32	South Africa	1,219,912	NA
33	Colombia	1,138,910	NA
34	Ethiopia	1,127,127	NA
35	Bolivia	1,098,580	NA
36	Mauritania	1,030,700	NA
37	Egypt	1,001,450	NA
38	Tanzania	945,087	NA
39	Nigeria	923,768	NA
40	Venezuela	912,050	NA
41	Namibia	825,418	NA
42	Pakistan	803,940	NA
43	Mozambique	801,590	NA
44	Turkey	780,580	NA
45	Chile	756,950	NA
46	Zambia	752,614	NA
47	Burma	678,500	NA
48	Afghanistan	647,500	NA
49	Somalia	637,657	NA
50	Central African Republic	622,984	NA
51	Ukraine	603,700	NA
52	Botswana	600,370	NA
53	Madagascar	587,040	NA
54	Kenya	582,650	NA
55	France	547,030	NA
56	Yemen	527,970	NA
57	Thailand	514,000	NA
58	Spain	504,782	NA
59	Turkmenistan	488,100	NA
60	Cameroon	475,440	NA
61	Papua New Guinea	462,840	NA
62	Sweden	449,964	NA
63	Uzbekistan	447,400	NA
64	Morocco	446,550	NA
65	Iraq	437,072	NA
66	Paraguay	406,750	NA
67	Zimbabwe	390,580	NA
68	Japan	377,835	NA
69	Germany	357,021	NA
70	Congo, Republic of the	342,000	NA
71	Finland	337,030	NA
72	Malaysia	329,750	NA
73	Vietnam	329,560	NA
74	Norway	324,220	NA
75	Cote d'Ivoire	322,460	NA
76	Poland	312,685	NA
77	Italy	301,230	NA
78	Philippines	300,000	NA
79	Ecuador	283,560	NA
80	Burkina Faso	274,200	NA
81	New Zealand	268,680	NA
82	Gabon	267,667	NA
83	Western Sahara	266,000	NA
84	Guinea	245,857	NA
85	United Kingdom	244,820	NA
86	Ghana	239,460	NA
87	Romania	237,500	NA
88	Laos	236,800	NA
89	Uganda	236,040	NA
90	Guyana	214,970	NA
91	Oman	212,460	NA
92	Belarus	207,600	NA
93	Kyrgyzstan	198,500	NA
94	Senegal	196,190	NA
95	Syria	185,180	NA
96	Cambodia	181,040	NA
97	Uruguay	176,220	NA
98	Tunisia	163,610	NA
99	Suriname	163,270	NA
100	Bangladesh	144,000	NA
101	Tajikistan	143,100	NA
102	Nepal	140,800	NA
103	Greece	131,940	NA
104	Nicaragua	129,494	NA
105	Eritrea	121,320	NA
106	Korea, North	120,540	NA
107	Malawi	118,480	NA
108	Benin	112,620	NA
109	Honduras	112,090	NA
110	Liberia	111,370	NA
111	Bulgaria	110,910	NA
112	Cuba	110,860	NA
113	Guatemala	108,890	NA
114	Iceland	103,000	NA
115	Serbia and Montenegro	102,350	NA
116	Korea, South	98,480	NA
117	Hungary	93,030	NA
118	Portugal	92,391	NA
119	Jordan	92,300	NA
120	French Guiana	91,000	NA
121	Azerbaijan	86,600	NA
122	Austria	83,858	NA
123	United Arab Emirates	82,880	NA
124	Czech Republic	78,866	NA
125	Panama	78,200	NA
126	Sierra Leone	71,740	NA
127	Ireland	70,280	NA
128	Georgia	69,700	NA
129	Sri Lanka	65,610	NA
130	Lithuania	65,200	NA
131	Latvia	64,589	NA
132	Svalbard	62,049	NA
133	Togo	56,785	NA
134	Croatia	56,542	NA
135	Bosnia and Herzegovina	51,129	NA
136	Costa Rica	51,100	NA
137	Slovakia	48,845	NA
138	Dominican Republic	48,730	NA
139	Bhutan	47,000	NA
140	Estonia	45,226	NA
141	Denmark	43,094	NA
142	Netherlands	41,526	NA
143	Switzerland	41,290	NA
144	Guinea-Bissau	36,120	NA
145	Taiwan	35,980	NA
146	Moldova	33,843	NA
147	Belgium	30,510	NA
148	Lesotho	30,355	NA
149	Armenia	29,800	NA
150	Albania	28,748	NA
151	Solomon Islands	28,450	NA
152	Equatorial Guinea	28,051	NA
153	Burundi	27,830	NA
154	Haiti	27,750	NA
155	Rwanda	26,338	NA
156	Macedonia, The Former Yugoslav Republic of	25,333	NA
157	Djibouti	23,000	NA
158	Belize	22,966	NA
159	El Salvador	21,040	NA
160	Israel	20,770	NA
161	Slovenia	20,273	NA
162	New Caledonia	19,060	NA
163	Fiji	18,270	NA
164	Kuwait	17,820	NA
165	Swaziland	17,363	NA
166	East Timor	15,007	NA
167	Bahamas, The	13,940	NA
168	Vanuatu	12,200	NA
169	Falkland Islands (Islas Malvinas)	12,173	NA
170	Qatar	11,437	NA
171	Gambia, The	11,300	NA
172	Jamaica	10,991	NA
173	Lebanon	10,400	NA
174	Cyprus	9,250	NA
175	Puerto Rico	9,104	NA
176	French Southern and Antarctic Lands	7,829	NA
177	West Bank	5,860	NA
178	Brunei	5,770	NA
179	Trinidad and Tobago	5,128	NA
180	French Polynesia	4,167	NA
181	Cape Verde	4,033	NA
182	South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands	3,903	NA
183	Samoa	2,944	NA
184	Luxembourg	2,586	NA
185	Reunion	2,517	NA
186	Comoros	2,170	NA
187	Mauritius	2,040	NA
188	Guadeloupe	1,780	NA
189	Faroe Islands	1,399	NA
190	Martinique	1,100	NA
191	Hong Kong	1,092	NA
192	Sao Tome and Principe	1,001	NA
193	Netherlands Antilles	960	NA
194	Kiribati	811	NA
195	Dominica	754	NA
196	Tonga	748	NA
197	Micronesia, Federated States of	702	NA
198	Singapore	693	NA
199	Bahrain	665	NA
200	Saint Lucia	616	NA
201	Man, Isle of	572	NA
202	Guam	549	NA
203	Northern Mariana Islands	477	NA
204	Andorra	468	NA
205	Palau	458	NA
206	Seychelles	455	NA
207	Antigua and Barbuda	443	NA
208	Barbados	431	NA
209	Turks and Caicos Islands	430	NA
210	Heard Island and McDonald Islands	412	NA
211	Saint Helena	410	NA
212	Saint Vincent and the Grenadines	389	NA
213	Mayotte	374	NA
214	Jan Mayen	373	NA
215	Gaza Strip	360	NA
216	Virgin Islands	352	NA
217	Grenada	344	NA
218	Malta	316	NA
219	Maldives	300	NA
220	Wallis and Futuna	274	NA
221	Cayman Islands	262	NA
222	Saint Kitts and Nevis	261	NA
223	Niue	260	NA
224	Saint Pierre and Miquelon	242	NA
225	Cook Islands	240	NA
226	American Samoa	199	NA
227	Aruba	193	NA
228	Marshall Islands	181	NA
229	Liechtenstein	160	NA
230	British Virgin Islands	153	NA
231	Christmas Island	135	NA
232	Jersey	116	NA
233	Anguilla	102	NA
234	Montserrat	102	NA
235	Guernsey	78	NA
236	San Marino	61	NA
237	British Indian Ocean Territory	60	NA
238	Bouvet Island	59	NA
239	Bermuda	53	NA
240	Pitcairn Islands	47	NA
241	Norfolk Island	35	NA
242	Europa Island	28	NA
243	Tuvalu	26	NA
244	Macau	25	NA
245	Nauru	21	NA
246	Cocos (Keeling) Islands	14	NA
247	Palmyra Atoll	12	NA
248	Tokelau	10	NA
249	Gibraltar	7	NA
250	Wake Island	7	NA
251	Midway Islands	6	NA
252	Clipperton Island	6	NA
253	Navassa Island	5	NA
254	Ashmore and Cartier Islands	5	NA
255	Glorioso Islands	5	NA
256	Spratly Islands	5	NA
257	Jarvis Island	5	NA
258	Juan de Nova Island	4	NA
259	Coral Sea Islands	3	NA
260	Johnston Atoll	3	NA
261	Monaco	2	NA
262	Howland Island	2	NA
263	Baker Island	1	NA
264	Kingman Reef	1	NA
265	Tromelin Island	1	NA
266	Holy See (Vatican City)	0	NA
267	Bassas da India	0	NA

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