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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.
Below is a list of countries in Africa by area. [1] Algeria has been the largest country in Africa and the Arab world since the division of Sudan in 2011. The largest African country not located in the Arab world is the Democratic Republic of the Congo located in Central Africa , which is also the second largest in the continent.
Sea in between the Horn of Africa and the Arabian Peninsula. Paraguay: 406,752: Country in South America. North Caucasus Economic Region (non-disputed areas) 405,400 Economic region of Russia, not including Sevastopol and the Republic of Crimea. Old Kingdom: 400,000: The first unified Egyptian empire lasting from 2686–2134 BC. Middle Assyrian ...
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 ...
The smaller the scale interval (meaning the more detailed the measurement), the longer the coastline will be. [Note 1] This "magnifying" effect is greater for convoluted coastlines than for relatively smooth ones. Data marked The World Factbook or TWF covers 198 countries and 55 territories, from the book published by the Central Intelligence ...
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 .
Russia: 284 km (176 mi) ... South Africa: 4,862 ... These artificial land borders are usually less than 50 metres (160 ft) long.
Africa appears to be roughly the same size as South America, when in reality Africa is over one and a half times as large. Alaska appears to be the same size as Australia, although Australia is actually 4.5 times as large. Alaska also takes as much area on the map as Brazil, whereas Brazil's area is nearly 5 times that of Alaska.