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Surface area by country — world rankings

Ranking 176 countries with data.

Surface area

Rank Country Value
1 Russia 16,926,537 km²
2 Antarctica 11,153,479 km²
3 Canada 9,986,046 km²
4 United States 9,493,364 km²
5 China 9,441,999 km²
6 Brazil 8,540,442 km²
7 Australia 7,702,031 km²
8 India 3,150,247 km²
9 Argentina 2,784,362 km²
10 Kazakhstan 2,720,653 km²
11 Dem. Rep. Congo 2,333,575 km²
12 Algeria 2,322,018 km²
13 Greenland 2,190,194 km²
14 Mexico 1,973,829 km²
15 Saudi Arabia 1,924,285 km²
16 Sudan 1,856,208 km²
17 Indonesia 1,827,516 km²
18 Libya 1,637,864 km²
19 Iran 1,618,710 km²
20 Mongolia 1,540,366 km²
21 Peru 1,314,936 km²
22 Chad 1,274,677 km²
23 Angola 1,249,744 km²
24 Mali 1,238,494 km²
25 South Africa 1,217,984 km²
26 Niger 1,185,336 km²
27 Colombia 1,156,996 km²
28 Ethiopia 1,137,055 km²
29 Bolivia 1,088,822 km²
30 Mauritania 1,055,827 km²
31 Egypt 998,978 km²
32 Tanzania 936,833 km²
33 Venezuela 912,301 km²
34 Nigeria 908,745 km²
35 Pakistan 875,287 km²
36 Namibia 827,468 km²
37 Chile 814,769 km²
38 Mozambique 813,766 km²
39 Turkey 797,968 km²
40 Zambia 754,719 km²
41 Myanmar 681,307 km²
42 Afghanistan 652,499 km²
43 France 643,829 km²
44 S. Sudan 627,551 km²
45 Central African Rep. 624,458 km²
46 Kenya 593,484 km²
47 Botswana 593,376 km²
48 Morocco 592,489 km²
49 Madagascar 590,922 km²
50 Ukraine 570,744 km²
51 Thailand 511,931 km²
52 Spain 501,633 km²
53 Somalia 486,440 km²
54 Turkmenistan 480,290 km²
55 Papua New Guinea 466,529 km²
56 Cameroon 462,327 km²
57 Uzbekistan 460,607 km²
58 Yemen 457,302 km²
59 Sweden 447,972 km²
60 Iraq 437,553 km²
61 Japan 404,359 km²
62 Paraguay 402,238 km²
63 Norway 394,653 km²
64 Zimbabwe 377,441 km²
65 Germany 356,066 km²
66 Congo 341,195 km²
67 Malaysia 339,752 km²
68 Finland 339,079 km²
69 Vietnam 337,184 km²
70 Côte d'Ivoire 331,242 km²
71 Italy 314,558 km²
72 Oman 309,981 km²
73 Poland 309,125 km²
74 Philippines 293,246 km²
75 New Zealand 277,262 km²
76 Burkina Faso 272,616 km²
77 Gabon 270,692 km²
78 Ecuador 251,865 km²
79 United Kingdom 248,906 km²
80 Uganda 246,853 km²
81 Ghana 244,465 km²
82 Guinea 240,540 km²
83 Romania 237,784 km²
84 Laos 229,781 km²
85 Guyana 210,763 km²
86 Belarus 208,086 km²
87 Kyrgyzstan 195,663 km²
88 Senegal 195,092 km²
89 Syria 185,222 km²
90 Cambodia 182,967 km²
91 Uruguay 176,990 km²
92 Somaliland 168,144 km²
93 Tunisia 156,356 km²
94 Nepal 150,930 km²
95 Suriname 144,936 km²
96 Tajikistan 137,941 km²
97 Bangladesh 134,063 km²
98 Greece 131,917 km²
99 Nicaragua 130,033 km²
100 North Korea 125,460 km²
101 Eritrea 119,650 km²
102 Benin 117,494 km²
103 Cuba 115,209 km²
104 Honduras 114,179 km²
105 Malawi 111,583 km²
106 Bulgaria 110,034 km²
107 Guatemala 109,847 km²
108 Iceland 107,171 km²
109 South Korea 99,054 km²
110 Liberia 98,650 km²
111 W. Sahara 96,822 km²
112 Portugal 93,304 km²
113 Hungary 92,239 km²
114 Azerbaijan 91,025 km²
115 Jordan 89,180 km²
116 Austria 84,856 km²
117 Czechia 80,966 km²
118 United Arab Emirates 80,186 km²
119 Sierra Leone 76,310 km²
120 Serbia 76,223 km²
121 Panama 75,594 km²
122 Georgia 68,914 km²
123 Sri Lanka 65,630 km²
124 Latvia 63,611 km²
125 Lithuania 63,524 km²
126 Togo 61,189 km²
127 Ireland 58,263 km²
128 Croatia 57,389 km²
129 Costa Rica 54,055 km²
130 Bosnia and Herz. 50,540 km²
131 Dominican Rep. 48,272 km²
132 Slovakia 46,927 km²
133 Switzerland 46,041 km²
134 Estonia 44,440 km²
135 Denmark 42,578 km²
136 Netherlands 39,772 km²
137 Bhutan 39,462 km²
138 Guinea-Bissau 36,303 km²
139 Moldova 32,236 km²
140 Belgium 30,021 km²
141 Albania 29,668 km²
142 Haiti 28,620 km²
143 Armenia 28,615 km²
144 Lesotho 27,530 km²
145 Eq. Guinea 27,244 km²
146 Burundi 26,349 km²
147 Macedonia 25,015 km²
148 Solomon Is. 24,833 km²
149 Rwanda 23,446 km²
150 New Caledonia 23,286 km²
151 Israel 23,065 km²
152 Belize 22,093 km²
153 Djibouti 21,963 km²
154 El Salvador 20,969 km²
155 Fiji 19,340 km²
156 Slovenia 19,098 km²
157 eSwatini 18,133 km²
158 Kuwait 16,665 km²
159 Falkland Is. 16,303 km²
160 Bahamas 15,618 km²
161 Timor-Leste 14,773 km²
162 Gambia 14,097 km²
163 Montenegro 13,422 km²
164 Jamaica 12,485 km²
165 Fr. S. Antarctic Lands 11,557 km²
166 Qatar 11,373 km²
167 Kosovo 11,222 km²
168 Brunei 10,717 km²
169 Lebanon 10,075 km²
170 Puerto Rico 9,263 km²
171 Trinidad and Tobago 7,767 km²
172 Vanuatu 7,516 km²
173 Cyprus 6,234 km²
174 Palestine 5,033 km²
175 N. Cyprus 3,781 km²
176 Luxembourg 2,406 km²

Ordered by value, highest first (ties break by country slug). Countries without data for this metric are not listed — they occupy no rank.

Surface area is computed from Natural Earth 1:110m boundaries with an equal-area spherical formula — not the World Bank's land-area figure; population density is our own derived metric (latest population ÷ that area).

The unweighted median across the 176 countries with data is 190,157 km² — shown for context, not a world average.

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Data & method

Indicators: World Bank Open Data, 43 indicators — CC BY 4.0 © World Bank — https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/; Human Development Index — CC BY 3.0 IGO © United Nations Development Programme — https://hdr.undp.org/terms-use

Boundaries: Natural Earth 1:110m (public domain); surface areas are computed with an equal-area spherical formula (Chamberlin–Duquette).

Reference facts (capital, languages, currencies, subregion): mledoze/countries (ODbL).