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Rank Order - Area

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Rank	Country	Area (sq km)	Date of Information
1	World	510,072,000	NA
2	Pacific Ocean	155,557,000	NA
3	Atlantic Ocean	76,762,000	NA
4	Indian Ocean	68,556,000	NA
5	Southern Ocean	20,327,000	NA
6	Russia	17,075,200	NA
7	Arctic Ocean	14,056,000	NA
8	Antarctica	14,000,000	NA
9	Canada	9,984,670	NA
10	United States	9,631,420	NA
11	China	9,596,960	NA
12	Brazil	8,511,965	NA
13	Australia	7,686,850	NA
14	European Union	3,976,372	NA
15	India	3,287,590	NA
16	Argentina	2,766,890	NA
17	Kazakhstan	2,717,300	NA
18	Sudan	2,505,810	NA
19	Algeria	2,381,740	NA
20	Congo, Democratic Republic of the	2,345,410	NA
21	Greenland	2,166,086	NA
22	Mexico	1,972,550	NA
23	Saudi Arabia	1,960,582	NA
24	Indonesia	1,919,440	NA
25	Libya	1,759,540	NA
26	Iran	1,648,000	NA
27	Mongolia	1,564,116	NA
28	Peru	1,285,220	NA
29	Chad	1,284,000	NA
30	Niger	1,267,000	NA
31	Angola	1,246,700	NA
32	Mali	1,240,000	NA
33	South Africa	1,219,912	NA
34	Colombia	1,138,910	NA
35	Ethiopia	1,127,127	NA
36	Bolivia	1,098,580	NA
37	Mauritania	1,030,700	NA
38	Egypt	1,001,450	NA
39	Tanzania	945,087	NA
40	Nigeria	923,768	NA
41	Venezuela	912,050	NA
42	Namibia	825,418	NA
43	Pakistan	803,940	NA
44	Mozambique	801,590	NA
45	Turkey	780,580	NA
46	Chile	756,950	NA
47	Zambia	752,614	NA
48	Burma	678,500	NA
49	Afghanistan	647,500	NA
50	Somalia	637,657	NA
51	Central African Republic	622,984	NA
52	Ukraine	603,700	NA
53	Botswana	600,370	NA
54	Madagascar	587,040	NA
55	Kenya	582,650	NA
56	France	547,030	NA
57	Yemen	527,970	NA
58	Thailand	514,000	NA
59	Spain	504,782	NA
60	Turkmenistan	488,100	NA
61	Cameroon	475,440	NA
62	Papua New Guinea	462,840	NA
63	Sweden	449,964	NA
64	Uzbekistan	447,400	NA
65	Morocco	446,550	NA
66	Iraq	437,072	NA
67	Paraguay	406,750	NA
68	Zimbabwe	390,580	NA
69	Japan	377,835	NA
70	Germany	357,021	NA
71	Congo, Republic of the	342,000	NA
72	Finland	338,145	NA
73	Malaysia	329,750	NA
74	Vietnam	329,560	NA
75	Norway	324,220	NA
76	Cote d'Ivoire	322,460	NA
77	Poland	312,685	NA
78	Italy	301,230	NA
79	Philippines	300,000	NA
80	Ecuador	283,560	NA
81	Burkina Faso	274,200	NA
82	New Zealand	268,680	NA
83	Gabon	267,667	NA
84	Western Sahara	266,000	NA
85	Guinea	245,857	NA
86	United Kingdom	244,820	NA
87	Ghana	239,460	NA
88	Romania	237,500	NA
89	Laos	236,800	NA
90	Uganda	236,040	NA
91	Guyana	214,970	NA
92	Oman	212,460	NA
93	Belarus	207,600	NA
94	Kyrgyzstan	198,500	NA
95	Senegal	196,190	NA
96	Syria	185,180	NA
97	Cambodia	181,040	NA
98	Uruguay	176,220	NA
99	Tunisia	163,610	NA
100	Suriname	163,270	NA
101	Bangladesh	144,000	NA
102	Tajikistan	143,100	NA
103	Nepal	140,800	NA
104	Greece	131,940	NA
105	Nicaragua	129,494	NA
106	Eritrea	121,320	NA
107	Korea, North	120,540	NA
108	Malawi	118,480	NA
109	Benin	112,620	NA
110	Honduras	112,090	NA
111	Liberia	111,370	NA
112	Bulgaria	110,910	NA
113	Cuba	110,860	NA
114	Guatemala	108,890	NA
115	Iceland	103,000	NA
116	Serbia and Montenegro	102,350	NA
117	Korea, South	98,480	NA
118	Hungary	93,030	NA
119	Portugal	92,391	NA
120	Jordan	92,300	NA
121	French Guiana	91,000	NA
122	Azerbaijan	86,600	NA
123	Austria	83,870	NA
124	United Arab Emirates	82,880	NA
125	Czech Republic	78,866	NA
126	Panama	78,200	NA
127	Sierra Leone	71,740	NA
128	Ireland	70,280	NA
129	Georgia	69,700	NA
130	Sri Lanka	65,610	NA
131	Lithuania	65,200	NA
132	Latvia	64,589	NA
133	Svalbard	62,049	NA
134	Togo	56,785	NA
135	Croatia	56,542	NA
136	British Indian Ocean Territory	54,400	NA
137	Bosnia and Herzegovina	51,129	NA
138	Costa Rica	51,100	NA
139	Slovakia	48,845	NA
140	Dominican Republic	48,730	NA
141	Bhutan	47,000	NA
142	Estonia	45,226	NA
143	Denmark	43,094	NA
144	Netherlands	41,526	NA
145	Switzerland	41,290	NA
146	Guinea-Bissau	36,120	NA
147	Taiwan	35,980	NA
148	Moldova	33,843	NA
149	Belgium	30,528	NA
150	Lesotho	30,355	NA
151	Armenia	29,800	NA
152	Albania	28,748	NA
153	Solomon Islands	28,450	NA
154	Equatorial Guinea	28,051	NA
155	Burundi	27,830	NA
156	Haiti	27,750	NA
157	Rwanda	26,338	NA
158	Macedonia	25,333	NA
159	Djibouti	23,000	NA
160	Belize	22,966	NA
161	El Salvador	21,040	NA
162	Israel	20,770	NA
163	Slovenia	20,273	NA
164	New Caledonia	19,060	NA
165	Fiji	18,270	NA
166	Kuwait	17,820	NA
167	Swaziland	17,363	NA
168	East Timor	15,007	NA
169	Bahamas, The	13,940	NA
170	Puerto Rico	13,790	NA
171	Vanuatu	12,200	NA
172	Falkland Islands (Islas Malvinas)	12,173	NA
173	Marshall Islands	11,854	NA
174	Qatar	11,437	NA
175	Gambia, The	11,300	NA
176	Jamaica	10,991	NA
177	Lebanon	10,400	NA
178	Cyprus	9,250	NA
179	French Southern and Antarctic Lands	7,829	NA
180	West Bank	5,860	NA
181	Brunei	5,770	NA
182	Trinidad and Tobago	5,128	NA
183	French Polynesia	4,167	NA
184	Cape Verde	4,033	NA
185	South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands	3,903	NA
186	Samoa	2,944	NA
187	Luxembourg	2,586	NA
188	Reunion	2,517	NA
189	Comoros	2,170	NA
190	Mauritius	2,040	NA
191	Virgin Islands	1,910	NA
192	Guadeloupe	1,780	NA
193	Faroe Islands	1,399	NA
194	Martinique	1,100	NA
195	Hong Kong	1,092	NA
196	Sao Tome and Principe	1,001	NA
197	Netherlands Antilles	960	NA
198	Kiribati	811	NA
199	Dominica	754	NA
200	Tonga	748	NA
201	Micronesia, Federated States of	702	NA
202	Singapore	693	NA
203	Bahrain	665	NA
204	Saint Lucia	616	NA
205	Isle of Man	572	NA
206	Guam	541	NA
207	Northern Mariana Islands	477	NA
208	Andorra	468	NA
209	Palau	458	NA
210	Seychelles	455	NA
211	Antigua and Barbuda	443	NA
212	Barbados	431	NA
213	Turks and Caicos Islands	430	NA
214	Saint Helena	413	NA
215	Heard Island and McDonald Islands	412	NA
216	Saint Vincent and the Grenadines	389	NA
217	Mayotte	374	NA
218	Jan Mayen	373	NA
219	Gaza Strip	360	NA
220	Grenada	344	NA
221	Malta	316	NA
222	Maldives	300	NA
223	Wallis and Futuna	274	NA
224	Cayman Islands	262	NA
225	Saint Kitts and Nevis	261	NA
226	Niue	260	NA
227	Saint Pierre and Miquelon	242	NA
228	Cook Islands	240	NA
229	American Samoa	199	NA
230	Aruba	193	NA
231	Liechtenstein	160	NA
232	British Virgin Islands	153	NA
233	Christmas Island	135	NA
234	Dhekelia	131	NA
235	Akrotiri	123	NA
236	Jersey	116	NA
237	Anguilla	102	NA
238	Montserrat	102	NA
239	Guernsey	78	NA
240	San Marino	61	NA
241	Bouvet Island	59	NA
242	Bermuda	53	NA
243	Pitcairn Islands	47	NA
244	Norfolk Island	35	NA
245	Macau	28	NA
246	Europa Island	28	NA
247	Tuvalu	26	NA
248	United States Pacific Island Wildlife Refuges	22	NA
249	Nauru	21	NA
250	Cocos (Keeling) Islands	14	NA
251	Palmyra Atoll	12	NA
252	Tokelau	10	NA
253	Gibraltar	7	NA
254	Wake Island	7	NA
255	Midway Islands	6	NA
256	Clipperton Island	6	NA
257	Navassa Island	5	NA
258	Ashmore and Cartier Islands	5	NA
259	Glorioso Islands	5	NA
260	Spratly Islands	5	NA
261	Jarvis Island	5	NA
262	Juan de Nova Island	4	NA
263	Coral Sea Islands	3	NA
264	Johnston Atoll	3	NA
265	Monaco	2	NA
266	Howland Island	2	NA
267	Baker Island	1	NA
268	Kingman Reef	1	NA
269	Tromelin Island	1	NA
270	Holy See (Vatican City)	0	NA
271	Bassas da India	0	NA

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