Countries by Area: All 197 Ranked

Reference list Compiled by TRIVI.GG Updated 19 August 2026

This page ranks all 197 countries by total area. The largest is first.

Russia is the largest country, at about 17,098,246 square kilometres. Vatican City is the smallest, at about 1.

What total area includes

Total area includes land and inland water. A country with many lakes or large rivers gains area from them.

Total area does not include the sea outside the coast. A country's waters at sea are a separate measure.

Areas that two countries both claim are counted once, under the country that governs them.

Why the map can mislead you

A world map flattens a globe, and every flat map stretches something. The common web map stretches the areas near the poles.

This is why Greenland looks as large as Africa on a map. Africa is about fourteen times larger.

Read the numbers in this table rather than the shapes on the map. The numbers are the measure the quizzes use.

All 197 countries by total area

Rank	Country	Area (km²)	Continent
1	Russia	17,098,246	Europe
2	Canada	9,984,670	North America
3	United States	9,833,517	North America
4	China	9,596,961	Asia
5	Brazil	8,515,767	South America
6	Australia	7,692,024	Oceania
7	India	3,287,263	Asia
8	Argentina	2,780,400	South America
9	Kazakhstan	2,724,900	Asia
10	Algeria	2,381,741	Africa
11	Democratic Republic of the Congo	2,344,858	Africa
12	Saudi Arabia	2,149,690	Asia
13	Mexico	1,964,375	North America
14	Indonesia	1,904,569	Asia
15	Sudan	1,861,484	Africa
16	Libya	1,759,540	Africa
17	Iran	1,648,195	Asia
18	Mongolia	1,564,116	Asia
19	Peru	1,285,216	South America
20	Chad	1,284,000	Africa
21	Niger	1,267,000	Africa
22	Angola	1,246,700	Africa
23	Mali	1,240,192	Africa
24	South Africa	1,221,037	Africa
25	Colombia	1,141,748	South America
26	Ethiopia	1,104,300	Africa
27	Bolivia	1,098,581	South America
28	Mauritania	1,030,700	Africa
29	Egypt	1,010,408	Africa
30	Tanzania	945,087	Africa
31	Nigeria	923,768	Africa
32	Venezuela	916,445	South America
33	Pakistan	881,913	Asia
34	Namibia	825,615	Africa
35	Mozambique	801,590	Africa
36	Turkey	783,562	Asia
37	Chile	756,102	South America
38	Zambia	752,618	Africa
39	Myanmar	676,578	Asia
40	Afghanistan	652,230	Asia
41	South Sudan	644,329	Africa
42	France	643,801	Europe
43	Somalia	637,657	Africa
44	Central African Republic	622,984	Africa
45	Ukraine	603,550	Europe
46	Madagascar	587,041	Africa
47	Botswana	581,730	Africa
48	Kenya	580,367	Africa
49	Yemen	527,968	Asia
50	Thailand	513,120	Asia
51	Spain	505,990	Europe
52	Turkmenistan	488,100	Asia
53	Cameroon	475,442	Africa
54	Papua New Guinea	462,840	Oceania
55	Sweden	450,295	Europe
56	Uzbekistan	447,400	Asia
57	Morocco	446,550	Africa
58	Iraq	438,317	Asia
59	Paraguay	406,752	South America
60	Zimbabwe	390,757	Africa
61	Norway	385,207	Europe
62	Japan	377,975	Asia
63	Germany	357,592	Europe
64	Republic of the Congo	342,000	Africa
65	Finland	338,424	Europe
66	Vietnam	331,212	Asia
67	Malaysia	330,803	Asia
68	Ivory Coast	322,463	Africa
69	Poland	312,696	Europe
70	Oman	309,500	Asia
71	Italy	301,340	Europe
72	Philippines	300,000	Asia
73	Ecuador	283,561	South America
74	Burkina Faso	274,200	Africa
75	New Zealand	268,021	Oceania
76	Gabon	267,668	Africa
77	Guinea	245,857	Africa
78	United Kingdom	243,610	Europe
79	Uganda	241,038	Africa
80	Ghana	238,533	Africa
81	Romania	238,397	Europe
82	Laos	236,800	Asia
83	Guyana	214,969	South America
84	Belarus	207,600	Europe
85	Kyrgyzstan	199,951	Asia
86	Senegal	196,722	Africa
87	Syria	185,180	Asia
88	Cambodia	181,035	Asia
89	Uruguay	176,215	South America
90	Suriname	163,820	South America
91	Tunisia	163,610	Africa
92	Bangladesh	147,570	Asia
93	Nepal	147,181	Asia
94	Tajikistan	143,100	Asia
95	Greece	131,957	Europe
96	Nicaragua	130,373	North America
97	North Korea	120,540	Asia
98	Malawi	118,484	Africa
99	Eritrea	117,600	Africa
100	Benin	114,763	Africa
101	Honduras	112,492	North America
102	Liberia	111,369	Africa
103	Bulgaria	110,994	Europe
104	Cuba	109,884	North America
105	Guatemala	108,889	North America
106	Iceland	103,000	Europe
107	South Korea	100,363	Asia
108	Hungary	93,028	Europe
109	Portugal	92,212	Europe
110	Jordan	89,342	Asia
111	Azerbaijan	86,600	Asia
112	Austria	83,871	Europe
113	United Arab Emirates	83,600	Asia
114	Czech Republic	78,871	Europe
115	Serbia	77,474	Europe
116	Panama	75,417	North America
117	Sierra Leone	71,740	Africa
118	Ireland	70,273	Europe
119	Georgia	69,700	Asia
120	Sri Lanka	65,610	Asia
121	Lithuania	65,300	Europe
122	Latvia	64,589	Europe
123	Togo	56,785	Africa
124	Croatia	56,594	Europe
125	Bosnia and Herzegovina	51,209	Europe
126	Costa Rica	51,100	North America
127	Slovakia	49,035	Europe
128	Dominican Republic	48,671	North America
129	Estonia	45,228	Europe
130	Denmark	43,094	Europe
131	Netherlands	41,850	Europe
132	Switzerland	41,285	Europe
133	Bhutan	38,394	Asia
134	Taiwan	36,197	Asia
135	Guinea-Bissau	36,125	Africa
136	Moldova	33,846	Europe
137	Belgium	30,528	Europe
138	Lesotho	30,355	Africa
139	Armenia	29,743	Asia
140	Solomon Islands	28,896	Oceania
141	Albania	28,748	Europe
142	Equatorial Guinea	28,051	Africa
143	Burundi	27,834	Africa
144	Haiti	27,750	North America
145	Rwanda	26,338	Africa
146	North Macedonia	25,713	Europe
147	Djibouti	23,200	Africa
148	Belize	22,966	North America
149	El Salvador	21,041	North America
150	Israel	20,770	Asia
151	Slovenia	20,273	Europe
152	Fiji	18,272	Oceania
153	Kuwait	17,818	Asia
154	Eswatini	17,364	Africa
155	Timor-Leste	14,874	Asia
156	Bahamas	13,943	North America
157	Montenegro	13,812	Europe
158	Vanuatu	12,189	Oceania
159	Qatar	11,586	Asia
160	Gambia	11,295	Africa
161	Jamaica	10,991	North America
162	Kosovo	10,887	Europe
163	Lebanon	10,452	Asia
164	Cyprus	9,251	Asia
165	Palestine	6,020	Asia
166	Brunei	5,765	Asia
167	Trinidad and Tobago	5,130	North America
168	Cape Verde	4,033	Africa
169	Samoa	2,842	Oceania
170	Luxembourg	2,586	Europe
171	Mauritius	2,040	Africa
172	Comoros	1,861	Africa
173	Sao Tome and Principe	964	Africa
174	Kiribati	811	Oceania
175	Bahrain	786	Asia
176	Dominica	751	North America
177	Tonga	747	Oceania
178	Singapore	728	Asia
179	Micronesia	702	Oceania
180	Saint Lucia	617	North America
181	Andorra	468	Europe
182	Palau	459	Oceania
183	Seychelles	455	Africa
184	Antigua and Barbuda	442	North America
185	Barbados	430	North America
186	Saint Vincent and the Grenadines	389	North America
187	Grenada	344	North America
188	Malta	316	Europe
189	Maldives	298	Asia
190	Saint Kitts and Nevis	261	North America
191	Marshall Islands	181	Oceania
192	Liechtenstein	160	Europe
193	San Marino	61	Europe
194	Tuvalu	26	Oceania
195	Nauru	21	Oceania
196	Monaco	2	Europe
197	Vatican City	1	Europe

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Sources

Area values are total area in square kilometres, held in the Daily Country dataset.

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