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Top 100 largest countries by area. The Earth's surface is divided into many countries, and some of them are real giants like Russia, Canada, USA, China, Brazil, and Australia. They occupy huge areas and stretch across the continents. The 10 largest ones are more or less known to everybody.
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 .
The largest country in the world is Russia with a total area of 17,098,242 Km² (6,601,665 mi²) and a land area of 16,376,870 Km² (6,323,142 mi²), equivalent to 11% of the total world's landmass of 148,940,000 Km² (57,510,000 square miles).
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.
Find out in our list, which provides the total area in square miles and square kilometers for all countries of the world and for all but the smallest political dependencies and territories. It is ordered by total area, from the largest to the smallest.
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. The 193 Members of the United Nations and the two observer states are numbered.
Below is a list of countries and their areas in square kilometers and square miles. Also shows how much each country shares of the world's surface.
