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Dymaxion map of the world with the 30 largest countries and territories by area. This is a list of the world's countries and their dependencies, ranked by total area, including land and water.
The top three largest countries in the world are Russia, Canada and the ... China leads when it comes to land area compared with the U.S. World Atlas says China is approximately 2% larger than the ...
Russia (Russian: Россия) is the largest country in the world, covering over 17,125,191 km 2 (6,612,073 sq mi), and encompassing more than one-eighth of Earth's inhabited land area. Russia extends across eleven time zones , and has the most borders of any country in the world, with sixteen sovereign nations .
This list includes all islands in the world larger than 1,000 km 2 (390 sq mi). For size and location reference, the four continental landmasses are also shown. Continental landmasses Continental landmasses are not usually classified as islands despite being completely surrounded by water. [Note 1] However, because the definition of continent varies between geographers, the Americas are ...
Russia is a member of the G20, the OSCE, and the APEC. It is also the leading member of organisations such as the CIS, [301] the EAEU, [302] the CSTO, [303] the SCO, [304] and BRICS. [305] Russia maintains close relations with neighbouring Belarus, which is a part of the Union State, a supranational confederation of the two states. [306]
The tropical domain has the largest proportion of the world's forests (45 percent), followed by the boreal, temperate and subtropical domains. More than half (54 percent) of the world's forests is in only five countries – the Russian Federation (20.1%), Brazil (12.2%), Canada (8.6%), the United States of America (7.6%) and China (5.4%). [2]
Canada has a vast geography that occupies much of the continent of North America, sharing a land border with the contiguous United States to the south and the U.S. state of Alaska to the northwest. Canada stretches from the Atlantic Ocean in the east to the Pacific Ocean in the west; to the north lies the Arctic Ocean. [1]
“Despite spending less than 2%, Canada is still one of the biggest spenders on military stuff – its economy is larger than most NATO members, ... Canada, Russia and China.