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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 UNSD geoscheme was created for statistical analysis and consists of macro-geographical regions arranged to the extent possible according to continents. [2] Within each region, smaller geographical subregions and sometimes intermediary regions contain countries and territories.
Size in 1650. Khwarazmian dynasty: 3,600,000 Size at greatest extent in 1218. Northern Canada: 3,535,263: Vast northernmost region of Canada. Sassanid Empire: 3,500,000: Successor state to the Parthian Empire in the Middle East and Iran, the last Iranian empire before the rise of Islam, lasting from 224–651, size estimated at its apex in 550 ...
A continent is any of several large geographical regions. Continents are generally identified by convention rather than any strict criteria. A continent could be a single landmass or a part of a very large landmass, as in the case of Asia or Europe. Due to this, the number of continents varies; up to seven or as few as four geographical regions ...
This is an index of a series of comprehensive lists of continents, countries, and first level administrative country subdivisions such as states, provinces, and territories, as well as certain political and geographic features of substantial area. [1]
The African and European mainlands are non-contiguous, and the delineation between these continents is thus merely a question of which islands are to be associated with which continent. The Portuguese Atlantic island possession of the Azores is 1,368 km (850 mi) from Europe and 1,507 km (936 mi) from Africa, and is sometimes grouped with Europe.
List of city squares by size; List of continents by area; List of countries and dependencies by area; List of countries and territories by border/area ratio; List of countries by forest area; List of countries by irrigated land area; List of countries by organic farmland; List of first-level administrative divisions by area