List of countries by area

Here is a list of the countries of the world sorted by area. Only sovereign states are numbered, but non-sovereign territories are also included for purposes of comparison. Areas include inland water bodies (lakes, reservoirs, rivers). Claims in Antarctica are not included.

Rank	Country	Area (km²)	Notes
	World	510,072,000	70.8% of the world's surface is water, 29.2% is land
1	Russia	17,075,200
2	Canada	9,984,670
3	United States	9,631,418	includes only the 50 states and District of Columbia
4	People's Republic of China	9,596,960	includes mainland China only; excludes Taiwan, Hong Kong and Macau
5	Brazil	8,511,965	includes Arquipélago de Fernando de Noronha, Atol das Rocas, Ilha da Trindade, Ilhas Martin Vaz, and Penedos de São Pedro e São Paulo
6	Australia	7,686,850	includes Lord Howe Island and Macquarie Island
	European Union	3,976,372
7	India	3,287,590
8	Argentina	2,766,890	does not include claims on the Falkland Islands (Malvinas), South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands.
9	Kazakhstan	2,717,300
10	Sudan	2,505,810
11	Algeria	2,381,740
12	Democratic Republic of the Congo	2,345,410
	Greenland	2,166,086
13	Mexico	1,972,550
14	Saudi Arabia	1,960,582
15	Indonesia	1,919,440
16	Libya	1,759,540
17	Iran	1,648,000
18	Mongolia	1,564,116
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	includes Prince Edward Islands (Marion Island and Prince Edward Island)
25	Colombia	1,138,910	includes Isla de Malpelo, Roncador Cay, Serrana Bank, and Serranilla Bank
26	Ethiopia	1,127,127
27	Bolivia	1,098,580
28	Mauritania	1,030,700
29	Egypt	1,001,450
30	Tanzania	945,087	includes the islands of Mafia, Pemba, and Zanzibar
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	includes Easter Island (Isla de Pascua) and Isla Sala y Gómez
38	Zambia	752,614
39	Burma	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	includes only metropolitan France; excludes the overseas administrative divisions
48	Yemen	527,970	includes Perim, Socotra, the former Yemen Arab Republic (YAR or North Yemen), and the former People's Democratic Republic of Yemen (PDRY or South Yemen)
49	Thailand	514,000
50	Spain	504,782	there are 19 autonomous communities including Balearic Islands and Canary Islands, and three small Spanish possessions off the coast of Morocco - Islas Chafarinas, Peñón de Alhucemas, and Peñón de Vélez de la Gomera
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
57	Iraq	437,072
58	Paraguay	406,750
59	Zimbabwe	390,580
60	Japan	377,835	includes Bonin Islands (Ogasawara-gunto), Daito-shoto, Minami-jima, Okino-tori-shima, Ryukyu Islands (Nansei-shoto), and Volcano Islands (Kazan-retto)
61	Germany	357,021
62	Republic of the Congo	342,000
63	Finland	338,145
64	Malaysia	329,750
65	Vietnam	329,560
66	Norway	324,220
67	Cote d'Ivoire	322,460
68	Poland	312,685
69	Italy	301,230	includes Sardinia and Sicily
70	Philippines	300,000
71	Ecuador	283,560	includes Galápagos Islands
72	Burkina Faso	274,200
73	New Zealand	268,680	includes Antipodes Islands, Auckland Islands, Bounty Islands, Campbell Island, Chatham Islands, and Kermadec Islands
74	Gabon	267,667
75	Western Sahara	266,000
76	Guinea	245,857
77	United Kingdom	244,820	includes Rockall and Shetland Islands
78	Ghana	239,460
79	Romania	237,500
80	Laos	236,800
81	Uganda	236,040
82	Guyana	214,970
83	Oman	212,460
84	Belarus	207,600
85	Kyrgyzstan	198,500
86	Senegal	196,190
87	Syria	185,180	includes 1,295 km² of Israeli-occupied territory
88	Cambodia	181,040
89	Uruguay	176,220
90	Tunisia	163,610
91	Suriname	163,270
92	Bangladesh	144,000
93	Tajikistan	143,100
94	Nepal	140,800
95	Greece	131,940
96	Nicaragua	129,494
97	Eritrea	121,320
98	North Korea	120,540
99	Malawi	118,480
100	Benin	112,620
101	Honduras	112,090
102	Liberia	111,370
103	Bulgaria	110,910
104	Cuba	110,860
105	Guatemala	108,890
106	Iceland	103,000
107	Serbia and Montenegro	102,350
108	South Korea	98,480
109	Hungary	93,030
110	Portugal	92,391	includes Azores and Madeira Islands
111	Jordan	92,300
	French Guiana	91,000
112	Azerbaijan	86,600	includes the exclave of Nakhichevan Autonomous Republic and the Nagorno-Karabakh region; the region's autonomy was abolished by Azerbaijani Supreme Soviet on 26 November 1991
113	Austria	83,870
114	United Arab Emirates	82,880
115	Czech Republic	78,866
116	Panama	78,200
117	Sierra Leone	71,740
118	Republic of Ireland	70,280
119	Georgia	69,700
120	Sri Lanka	65,610
121	Lithuania	65,200
122	Latvia	64,589
	Svalbard	62,049	includes Spitsbergen and Bjornoya (Bear Island)
123	Togo	56,785
124	Croatia	56,542
125	Bosnia and Herzegovina	51,129
126	Costa Rica	51,100	includes Isla del Coco
127	Slovakia	48,845
128	Dominican Republic	48,730
129	Bhutan	47,000
130	Estonia	45,226	includes 1,520 islands in the Baltic Sea
131	Denmark	43,094	includes the island of Bornholm in the Baltic Sea and the rest of metropolitan Denmark (the Jutland Peninsula, and the major islands of Sjaelland and Fyn), but excludes the Faroe Islands and Greenland, with which it would contain 2,389,903(km²), and rank 11th.
132	Netherlands	41,526
133	Switzerland	41,290
134	Guinea-Bissau	36,120
135	Republic of China	35,980	includes Taiwan and the Pescadores, Matsu, and Quemoy
136	Moldova	33,843
137	Belgium	30,528
138	Lesotho	30,355
139	Armenia	29,800
140	Albania	28,748
141	Solomon Islands	28,450
142	Equatorial Guinea	28,051
143	Burundi	27,830
144	Haiti	27,750
145	Rwanda	26,338
146	Republic of Macedonia	25,333
147	Djibouti	23,000
148	Belize	22,966
149	El Salvador	21,040
150	Israel	20,770
151	Slovenia	20,273
	New Caledonia	19,060
152	Fiji	18,270
153	Kuwait	17,820
154	Swaziland	17,363
155	East Timor	15,007
156	The Bahamas	13,940
157	Vanuatu	12,200	includes more than 80 islands, about 65 of which are inhabited
	Falkland Islands (Islas Malvinas)	12,173	includes the two main islands of East and West Falkland and about 200 small islands
158	Qatar	11,437
159	The Gambia	11,300
160	Jamaica	10,991
161	Lebanon	10,400
162	Cyprus	9,250
	Puerto Rico	9,104
	French Southern and Antarctic Lands	7,829	includes Île Amsterdam, Île Saint-Paul, Îles Crozet and Îles Kerguelen; excludes "Adelie Land" claim of about 500,000 km² in Antarctica
	West Bank	5,860	includes West Bank, Latrun Salient, and the northwest quarter of the Dead Sea, but excludes Mt. Scopus; East Jerusalem and Jerusalem No Man's Land are also included only as a means of depicting the entire area occupied by Israel in 1967
163	Brunei	5,770
164	Trinidad and Tobago	5,128
	French Polynesia	4,167
165	Cape Verde	4,033
	South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands	3,903	includes Shag Rocks, Black Rock, Clerke Rocks, South Georgia Island, Bird Island, and the South Sandwich Islands, which consist of some nine islands
166	Samoa	2,944
167	Luxembourg	2,586
	Réunion	2,517
168	Comoros	2,170
169	Mauritius	2,040	includes Agalega Islands, Cargados Carajos Shoals (Saint Brandon), and Rodrigues
	Guadeloupe	1,780	Guadeloupe is an archipelago of nine inhabited islands, including Basse-Terre, Grande-Terre, Marie-Galante, La Désirade, Îles des Saintes (2), Saint-Barthelemy, Îles de la Petite Terre, and Saint-Martin (French part of the island of Saint Martin)
	Faroe Islands	1,399
	Martinique	1,100
	Hong Kong	1,092
170	São Tomé and Príncipe	1,001
	Netherlands Antilles	960	includes Bonaire, Curacao, Saba, Sint Eustatius, and Sint Maarten (Dutch part of the island of Saint Martin)
171	Kiribati	811	includes three island groups - Gilbert Islands, Line Islands, Phoenix Islands
172	Dominica	754
173	Tonga	748
174	Federated States of Micronesia	702	includes Pohnpei (Ponape), Chuuk (Truk) Islands, Yap Islands, and Kosrae (Kosaie)
175	Singapore	692.70
176	Bahrain	665
177	Saint Lucia	616
	Isle of Man	572
	Guam	549
	Northern Mariana Islands	477	includes 14 islands including Saipan, Rota, and Tinian
178	Andorra	468
179	Palau	458
180	Seychelles	455
181	Antigua and Barbuda	443	includes Redonda, 1.6 km²
182	Barbados	431
	Turks and Caicos Islands	430
	Heard Island and McDonald Islands	412
	Saint Helena	410	includes Saint Helena Island, Ascension, and the island group of Tristan da Cunha, which consists of Tristan da Cunha Island, Gough Island, Inaccessible Island, and the three Nightingale Islands
183	Saint Vincent and the Grenadines	389
	Mayotte	374
	Jan Mayen	373
	Gaza Strip	360
	Virgin Islands	352
184	Grenada	344
185	Malta	316
186	Maldives	300
	Wallis and Futuna	274	includes Île Uvea (Wallis Island), Île Futuna (Futuna Island), Île Alofi, and 20 islets
	Cayman Islands	262
187	Saint Kitts and Nevis	261
	Niue	260
	Saint Pierre and Miquelon	242	includes eight small islands in the Saint Pierre and the Miquelon groups
	Cook Islands	240
	American Samoa	199	includes Rose Island and Swains Island
	Aruba	193
188	Marshall Islands	181.30	includes the atolls of Bikini, Enewetak, Kwajalein, Majuro, Rongelap, and Utirik
189	Liechtenstein	160
	British Virgin Islands	153	comprised of 16 inhabited and more than 20 uninhabited islands; includes the island of Anegada
	Christmas Island	135
	Dhekelia	130.80
	Akrotiri	123
	Jersey	116
	Anguilla	102
	Montserrat	102
	Guernsey	78	includes Alderney, Guernsey, Herm, Sark, and some other smaller islands
190	San Marino	61.20
	British Indian Ocean Territory	60	includes the entire Chagos Archipelago
	Bouvet Island	58.50
	Bermuda	53.30
	Pitcairn Islands	47
	Norfolk Island	34.60
	Europa Island	28
191	Tuvalu	26
	Macau	25.40
192	Nauru	21
	Cocos (Keeling) Islands	14	includes the two main islands of West Island and Home Island
	Palmyra Atoll	11.90
	Tokelau	10
	Gibraltar	6.50
	Wake Island	6.50
	Midway Islands	6.20	includes Eastern Island, Sand Island, and Spit Island
	Clipperton Island	6
	Navassa Island	5.40
	Ashmore and Cartier Islands	5	includes Ashmore Reef (West, Middle, and East Islets) and Cartier Island
	Glorioso Islands	5	includes Île Glorieuse, Île du Lys, Verte Rocks, Wreck Rock, and South Rock
	Spratly Islands	less than 5	includes 100 or so islets, coral reefs, and sea mounts scattered over an area of nearly 410,000 km² of the central South China Sea
	Jarvis Island	4.50
	Juan de Nova Island	4.40
	Coral Sea Islands	less than 3	includes numerous small islands and reefs scattered over a sea area of about 780,000 km², with the Willis Islets the most important
	Johnston Atoll	2.80
193	Monaco	1.95
	Howland Island	1.60
	Baker Island	1.40
	Kingman Reef	1
	Tromelin Island	1
194	Vatican City	0.44
	Bassas da India	0.20
	Paracel Islands	NA

Source: CIA World Factbook [1] (http://www.cia.gov/cia/publications/factbook/fields/2147.html) accessed February 15, 2005.

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