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Country Comparisons - 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	9,826,630	NA
11	China	9,596,960	NA
12	Brazil	8,511,965	NA
13	Australia	7,686,850	NA
14	European Union	4,324,782	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	Saudi Arabia	2,149,690	NA
23	Mexico	1,972,550	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	France	643,427	NA
51	Somalia	637,657	NA
52	Central African Republic	622,984	NA
53	Ukraine	603,700	NA
54	Botswana	600,370	NA
55	Madagascar	587,040	NA
56	Kenya	582,650	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	323,802	NA
76	Cote d'Ivoire	322,460	NA
77	Poland	312,679	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	Nepal	147,181	NA
102	Bangladesh	144,000	NA
103	Tajikistan	143,100	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	Korea, South	98,480	NA
117	Hungary	93,030	NA
118	Portugal	92,391	NA
119	Jordan	92,300	NA
120	Azerbaijan	86,600	NA
121	Austria	83,870	NA
122	United Arab Emirates	83,600	NA
123	Czech Republic	78,866	NA
124	Panama	78,200	NA
125	Serbia	77,474	NA
126	Sierra Leone	71,740	NA
127	Ireland	70,280	NA
128	Georgia	69,700	NA
129	Sri Lanka	65,610	NA
130	Lithuania	65,300	NA
131	Latvia	64,589	NA
132	Svalbard	61,020	NA
133	Togo	56,785	NA
134	Croatia	56,542	NA
135	British Indian Ocean Territory	54,400	NA
136	Bosnia and Herzegovina	51,209	NA
137	Costa Rica	51,100	NA
138	Slovakia	48,845	NA
139	Dominican Republic	48,730	NA
140	Bhutan	47,000	NA
141	Estonia	45,226	NA
142	Denmark	43,094	NA
143	Netherlands	41,526	NA
144	Switzerland	41,290	NA
145	Guinea-Bissau	36,120	NA
146	Taiwan	35,980	NA
147	Moldova	33,843	NA
148	Belgium	30,528	NA
149	Lesotho	30,355	NA
150	Armenia	29,743	NA
151	Albania	28,748	NA
152	Solomon Islands	28,450	NA
153	Equatorial Guinea	28,051	NA
154	Burundi	27,830	NA
155	Haiti	27,750	NA
156	Rwanda	26,338	NA
157	Macedonia	25,333	NA
158	Djibouti	23,000	NA
159	Belize	22,966	NA
160	El Salvador	21,040	NA
161	Israel	20,770	NA
162	Slovenia	20,273	NA
163	New Caledonia	19,060	NA
164	Fiji	18,270	NA
165	Kuwait	17,820	NA
166	Swaziland	17,363	NA
167	Timor-Leste	15,007	NA
168	Montenegro	14,026	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	Qatar	11,437	NA
174	Gambia, The	11,300	NA
175	Jamaica	10,991	NA
176	Kosovo	10,887	NA
177	Lebanon	10,400	NA
178	Cyprus	9,250	NA
179	West Bank	5,860	NA
180	Brunei	5,770	NA
181	Trinidad and Tobago	5,128	NA
182	French Polynesia	4,167	NA
183	Cape Verde	4,033	NA
184	South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands	3,903	NA
185	Samoa	2,944	NA
186	Luxembourg	2,586	NA
187	Comoros	2,170	NA
188	Mauritius	2,040	NA
189	Virgin Islands	1,910	NA
190	Faroe Islands	1,399	NA
191	Hong Kong	1,092	NA
192	Sao Tome and Principe	1,001	NA
193	Netherlands Antilles	960	NA
194	Kiribati	811	NA
195	Dominica	754	NA
196	Tonga	748	NA
197	Micronesia, Federated States of	702	NA
198	Singapore	693	NA
199	Bahrain	665	NA
200	Saint Lucia	616	NA
201	Isle of Man	572	NA
202	Guam	541	NA
203	Northern Mariana Islands	477	NA
204	Andorra	468	NA
205	Palau	458	NA
206	Seychelles	455	NA
207	Antigua and Barbuda	443	NA
208	Barbados	431	NA
209	Turks and Caicos Islands	430	NA
210	Saint Helena	413	NA
211	Heard Island and McDonald Islands	412	NA
212	Saint Vincent and the Grenadines	389	NA
213	Jan Mayen	377	NA
214	Mayotte	374	NA
215	Gaza Strip	360	NA
216	Grenada	344	NA
217	Malta	316	NA
218	Maldives	300	NA
219	Wallis and Futuna	274	NA
220	Cayman Islands	262	NA
221	Saint Kitts and Nevis	261	NA
222	Niue	260	NA
223	Saint Pierre and Miquelon	242	NA
224	Cook Islands	237	NA
225	American Samoa	199	NA
226	Aruba	193	NA
227	Marshall Islands	181	NA
228	Liechtenstein	160	NA
229	British Virgin Islands	153	NA
230	Christmas Island	135	NA
231	Dhekelia	131	NA
232	Akrotiri	123	NA
233	Jersey	116	NA
234	Anguilla	102	NA
235	Montserrat	102	NA
236	Guernsey	78	NA
237	San Marino	61	NA
238	French Southern and Antarctic Lands	55	NA
239	Saint Martin	54	NA
240	Bermuda	53	NA
241	Bouvet Island	49	NA
242	Pitcairn Islands	47	NA
243	Norfolk Island	35	NA
244	Macau	28	NA
245	Tuvalu	26	NA
246	United States Pacific Island Wildlife Refuges	22	NA
247	Nauru	21	NA
248	Cocos (Keeling) Islands	14	NA
249	Tokelau	10	NA
250	Gibraltar	7	NA
251	Wake Island	7	NA
252	Clipperton Island	6	NA
253	Navassa Island	5	NA
254	Ashmore and Cartier Islands	5	NA
255	Spratly Islands	5	NA
256	Coral Sea Islands	3	NA
257	Monaco	2	NA
258	Holy See (Vatican City)	0	NA

Countries for which no information is available are not included in this list.

This page was last updated on 14 May, 2009