Largest countries in the world by area

The world's countries ranked by total area in square kilometers. Russia is by far the largest, covering more than 17 million km² — almost twice the size of the next-largest country.

#	Country	Continent	Capital	Area (km²)
1	Russia	Europe	Moscow	17,098,250
2	Canada	Americas	Ottawa	9,984,670
3	China	Asia	Beijing	9,597,000
4	United States	Americas	Washington D.C.	9,525,067
5	Brazil	Americas	Brasília	8,515,767
6	Australia	Oceania	Canberra	7,692,024
7	India	Asia	New Delhi	3,287,263
8	Argentina	Americas	Buenos Aires	2,780,400
9	Kazakhstan	Asia	Nur-Sultan (Astana)	2,724,900
10	Algeria	Africa	Algiers	2,381,741
11	Democratic Republic of the Congo	Africa	Kinshasa	2,344,858
12	Saudi Arabia	Asia	Riyadh	2,149,690
13	Mexico	Americas	Mexico City	1,964,375
14	Indonesia	Asia	Jakarta	1,904,569
15	Sudan	Africa	Khartoum	1,861,484
16	Libya	Africa	Tripoli	1,759,541
17	Iran	Asia	Tehran	1,648,195
18	Mongolia	Asia	Ulaanbaatar	1,564,116
19	Peru	Americas	Lima	1,285,216
20	Chad	Africa	N'Djamena	1,284,000
21	Niger	Africa	Niamey	1,267,000
22	Angola	Africa	Luanda	1,246,700
23	Mali	Africa	Bamako	1,240,192
24	South Africa	Africa	Pretoria (administrative), Cape Town (legislative), Bloemfontein (judicial)	1,221,037
25	Colombia	Americas	Bogota	1,141,748
26	Ethiopia	Africa	Addis Ababa	1,104,300
27	Bolivia	Americas	Sucre (constitutional) and La Paz (seat of government)	1,098,581
28	Mauritania	Africa	Nouakchott	1,030,700
29	Egypt	Africa	Cairo	1,001,450
30	Tanzania	Africa	Dodoma	945,087
31	Nigeria	Africa	Abuja	923,769
32	Venezuela	Americas	Caracas	916,445
33	Pakistan	Asia	Islamabad	881,913
34	Namibia	Africa	Windhoek	825,615
35	Mozambique	Africa	Maputo	801,590
36	Turkey	Asia	Ankara	783,356
37	Chile	Americas	Santiago	756,102
38	Zambia	Africa	Lusaka	752,612
39	Morocco	Africa	Rabat	710,850
40	Myanmar	Asia	Naypyidaw	676,578
41	Afghanistan	Asia	Kabul	652,230
42	Somalia	Africa	Mogadishu	637,657
43	Central African Republic	Africa	Bangui	622,984
44	South Sudan	Africa	Juba	619,745
45	Ukraine	Europe	Kyiv	603,500
46	Madagascar	Africa	Antananarivo	587,041
47	Botswana	Africa	Gaborone	581,730
48	Kenya	Africa	Nairobi	580,367
49	France	Europe	Paris	549,087
50	Yemen	Asia	Sanaa	527,968
51	Thailand	Asia	Bangkok	513,120
52	Spain	Europe	Madrid	505,970
53	Turkmenistan	Asia	Ashgabat	491,210
54	Cameroon	Africa	Yaounde	475,442
55	Papua New Guinea	Oceania	Port Moresby	462,840
56	Sweden	Europe	Stockholm	450,295
57	Uzbekistan	Asia	Tashkent	447,400
58	Iraq	Asia	Baghdad	438,317
59	Paraguay	Americas	Asunción	406,752
60	Zimbabwe	Africa	Harare	390,757
61	Norway	Europe	Oslo	385,207
62	Japan	Asia	Tokyo	377,975
63	Germany	Europe	Berlin	357,590
64	Republic of the Congo	Africa	Brazzaville	342,000
65	Finland	Europe	Helsinki	338,424
66	Vietnam	Asia	Hanoi	331,210
67	Malaysia	Asia	Kuala Lumpur	330,803
68	Ivory Coast	Africa	Yamoussoukro	322,463
69	Poland	Europe	Warsaw	312,696
70	Oman	Asia	Muscat	309,500
71	Italy	Europe	Rome	301,340
72	Philippines	Asia	Manila	300,000
73	Ecuador	Americas	Quito	283,561
74	Burkina Faso	Africa	Ouagadougou	272,967
75	New Zealand	Oceania	Wellington	268,021
76	Gabon	Africa	Libreville	267,668
77	Guinea	Africa	Conakry	245,857
78	United Kingdom	Europe	London	243,610
79	Uganda	Africa	Kampala	241,038
80	Ghana	Africa	Accra	238,533
81	Romania	Europe	Bucharest	238,397
82	Laos	Asia	Vientiane	236,800
83	Guyana	Americas	Georgetown	214,969
84	Belarus	Europe	Minsk	207,600
85	Kyrgyzstan	Asia	Bishkek	199,951
86	Senegal	Africa	Dakar	196,722
87	Syria	Asia	Damascus	185,180
88	Cambodia	Asia	Phnom Penh	181,035
89	Uruguay	Americas	Montevideo	176,215
90	Suriname	Americas	Paramaribo	163,820
91	Tunisia	Africa	Tunis	163,610
92	Bangladesh	Asia	Dhaka	148,460
93	Nepal	Asia	Kathmandu	147,516
94	Tajikistan	Asia	Dushanbe	143,100
95	Greece	Europe	Athens	131,957
96	Nicaragua	Americas	Managua	130,373
97	North Korea	Asia	Pyongyang	120,540
98	Malawi	Africa	Lilongwe	118,484
99	Eritrea	Africa	Asmara	117,600
100	Benin	Africa	Porto-Novo	112,622
101	Honduras	Americas	Tegucigalpa	112,492
102	Liberia	Africa	Monrovia	111,369
103	Bulgaria	Europe	Sofia	110,993
104	Cuba	Americas	Havana	109,884
105	Guatemala	Americas	Guatemala City	108,889
106	Iceland	Europe	Reykjavik	103,000
107	South Korea	Asia	Seoul	100,210
108	Hungary	Europe	Budapest	93,030
109	Portugal	Europe	Lisbon	92,090
110	Jordan	Asia	Amman	89,342
111	Azerbaijan	Europe	Baku	86,600
112	Austria	Europe	Vienna	83,879
113	United Arab Emirates	Asia	Abu Dhabi	83,600
114	Czech Republic	Europe	Prague	78,867
115	Serbia	Europe	Belgrade	77,474
116	Panama	Americas	Panama City	75,417
117	Sierra Leone	Africa	Freetown	71,740
118	Ireland	Europe	Dublin	70,273
119	Georgia	Europe	Tbilisi	69,700
120	Sri Lanka	Asia	Sri Jayawardenepura Kotte (administrative), Colombo (commercial)	65,610
121	Lithuania	Europe	Vilnius	65,300
122	Latvia	Europe	Riga	64,589
123	Togo	Africa	Lomé	56,785
124	Croatia	Europe	Zagreb	56,594
125	Bosnia and Herzegovina	Europe	Sarajevo	51,197
126	Costa Rica	Americas	San Jose	51,100
127	Slovakia	Europe	Bratislava	49,035
128	Dominican Republic	Americas	Santo Domingo	48,671
129	Estonia	Europe	Tallinn	45,227
130	Denmark	Europe	Copenhagen	42,951
131	Netherlands	Europe	Amsterdam	41,540
132	Switzerland	Europe	Bern	41,290
133	Bhutan	Asia	Thimphu	38,394
134	Taiwan	Asia	Taipei	36,197
135	Guinea-Bissau	Africa	Bissau	36,125
136	Moldova	Europe	Chisinau	33,846
137	Belgium	Europe	Brussels	30,688
138	Lesotho	Africa	Maseru	30,355
139	Armenia	Europe	Yerevan	29,743
140	Albania	Europe	Tirana	28,748
141	Solomon Islands	Oceania	Honiara	28,400
142	Equatorial Guinea	Africa	Malabo	28,051
143	Burundi	Africa	Gitega	27,834
144	Haiti	Americas	Port-au-Prince	27,750
145	Rwanda	Africa	Kigali	26,338
146	North Macedonia	Europe	Skopje	25,713
147	Djibouti	Africa	Djibouti	23,200
148	Belize	Americas	Belmopan	22,966
149	Israel	Asia	Jerusalem	22,072
150	El Salvador	Americas	San Salvador	21,041
151	Slovenia	Europe	Ljubljana	20,273
152	Fiji	Oceania	Suva	18,274
153	Kuwait	Asia	Kuwait City	17,818
154	Eswatini	Africa	Mbabane	17,364
155	Timor-Leste	Asia	Dili	14,874
156	Bahamas	Americas	Nassau	13,880
157	Montenegro	Europe	Podgorica	13,812
158	Vanuatu	Oceania	Port Vila	12,189
159	Qatar	Asia	Doha	11,586
160	Gambia	Africa	Banjul	11,295
161	Jamaica	Americas	Kingston	10,991
162	Lebanon	Asia	Beirut	10,452
163	Cyprus	Asia	Nicosia	9,251
164	Palestine	Asia	Jerusalem (proclaimed), Ramallah (administrative)	6,020
165	Brunei	Asia	Bandar Seri Begawan	5,765
166	Trinidad and Tobago	Americas	Port of Spain	5,128
167	Cape Verde	Africa	Praia	4,033
168	Samoa	Oceania	Apia	2,831
169	Luxembourg	Europe	Luxembourg	2,586
170	Comoros	Africa	Moroni	2,235
171	Mauritius	Africa	Port Louis	2,040
172	Sao Tome and Principe	Africa	São Tomé	964
173	Kiribati	Oceania	Tarawa	811
174	Bahrain	Asia	Manama	765
175	Dominica	Americas	Roseau	751
176	Tonga	Oceania	Nuku'alofa	748
177	Singapore	Asia	Singapore	728
178	Micronesia	Oceania	Palikir	702
179	Saint Lucia	Americas	Castries	616
180	Andorra	Europe	Andorra la Vella	468
181	Palau	Oceania	Ngerulmud	459
182	Seychelles	Africa	Victoria	459
183	Antigua and Barbuda	Americas	Saint John's	442
184	Barbados	Americas	Bridgetown	430
185	Saint Vincent and the Grenadines	Americas	Kingstown	389
186	Grenada	Americas	Saint George's	348
187	Malta	Europe	Valletta	316
188	Maldives	Asia	Malé	298
189	Saint Kitts and Nevis	Americas	Basseterre	261
190	Marshall Islands	Oceania	Majuro	181
191	Liechtenstein	Europe	Vaduz	160
192	San Marino	Europe	San Marino	61
193	Tuvalu	Oceania	Funafuti	26
194	Nauru	Oceania	Yaren	21
195	Monaco	Europe	Monaco	2
196	Vatican City	Europe	Vatican City	0.44