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This is a list of the world's countries and their dependencies by land, water, and total area, ranked by total area. The entries in this list include, but are not limited to, those in the ISO 3166-1 standard, which includes sovereign states and dependent territories .
There are nearly 200 countries in the world, but when it comes to which is the largest, there is no competition. With a total area of 6,592,850 square miles (17,075,400 square km), Russia is the world’s largest country. A distant second is Canada, with 3,855,103 square miles (9,984,670 square km).
The list of countries by area is the list of the world's countries and their territories by total area. The inputs are realized according to the ISO 3166 standard which includes sovereign states and dependent territories .
Countries can be ranked by total surface area or land area. Total surface area include the land area and territorial waters belonging to a country. The world’s three largest countries by total area are Russia, Canada, and the US.
This page contains the area in squared meters of all the countries in the world. Use the interactive map or the table with countries ranked by area, from largest to smallest.
The 100 largest countries ranked by their total area, with an indication of their location and neighbors sharing land borders with them.
There are 195 countries based on the 193 that belong to the United Nations, as well as the Holy See and the State of Palestine. The Largest Countries By Total Area. Jump to the table of the 50 largest countries in the world. 1. Russia - 17,098,242 km 2. Ruling the landscape, brown bears of Kamchatka, Russia. Population: 145,165,000.
List of all countries and regions of the world by total area in square kilometers. The list is sorted by countries in order of the size of their area, from the largest countries to the smallest nations, including dependencies and territories.
|. Fact-checked by Sid Natividad. |. Updated on 8 August 2024. A ranking of the largest countries by area, measured using total surface area, using the latest data from the World Bank. Russia is the world’s largest country by total area (Shutterstock) Below is an index of the world’s countries and territories measured by surface area.
The statistic shows the 30 largest countries in the world by area. Russia is the largest country by far, with a total area of about 17 million square kilometers. Population of Russia....