Largest Countries by Land Area (2026)

Russia is the largest country by area at 17,098,246 km², spanning 3.4% of Earth's total surface. The top 10 largest countries cover over 57% of the world's land area.

#1

Russia

17,098,246 km²

#2

Antarctica

14,000,000 km²

#3

Canada

9,984,670 km²

Largest Countries by Land Area - 250 countries ranked by Area

Rank	Country	Area	Population	Region
1	Russia	17,098,246 km²	143,533,851	Europe
2	Antarctica	14,000,000 km²	1,300	Antarctic
3	Canada	9,984,670 km²	41,288,599	Americas
4	China	9,706,961 km²	1,408,975,000	Asia
5	United States	9,525,067 km²	340,110,988	Americas
6	Brazil	8,515,767 km²	211,998,573	Americas
7	Australia	7,692,024 km²	27,196,812	Oceania
8	India	3,287,263 km²	1,450,935,791	Asia
9	Argentina	2,780,400 km²	45,696,159	Americas
10	Kazakhstan	2,724,900 km²	20,592,571	Asia
11	Algeria	2,381,741 km²	46,814,308	Africa
12	DR Congo	2,344,858 km²	109,276,265	Africa
13	Greenland	2,166,086 km²	56,836	Americas
14	Saudi Arabia	2,149,690 km²	35,300,280	Asia
15	Mexico	1,964,375 km²	130,861,007	Americas
16	Indonesia	1,904,569 km²	283,487,931	Asia
17	Sudan	1,886,068 km²	50,448,963	Africa
18	Libya	1,759,540 km²	7,381,023	Africa
19	Iran	1,648,195 km²	91,567,738	Asia
20	Mongolia	1,564,110 km²	3,524,788	Asia
21	Peru	1,285,216 km²	34,217,848	Americas
22	Chad	1,284,000 km²	20,299,123	Africa
23	Niger	1,267,000 km²	27,032,412	Africa
24	Angola	1,246,700 km²	37,885,849	Africa
25	Mali	1,240,192 km²	24,478,595	Africa
26	South Africa	1,221,037 km²	64,007,187	Africa
27	Colombia	1,141,748 km²	52,886,363	Americas
28	Ethiopia	1,104,300 km²	132,059,767	Africa
29	Bolivia	1,098,581 km²	12,413,315	Americas
30	Mauritania	1,030,700 km²	5,169,395	Africa
31	Egypt	1,002,450 km²	116,538,258	Africa
32	Tanzania	947,303 km²	68,560,157	Africa
33	Nigeria	923,768 km²	232,679,478	Africa
34	Venezuela	916,445 km²	28,405,543	Americas
35	Namibia	825,615 km²	3,030,131	Africa
36	Mozambique	801,590 km²	34,631,766	Africa
37	Pakistan	796,095 km²	251,269,164	Asia
38	Turkey	783,562 km²	85,518,661	Asia
39	Chile	756,102 km²	19,764,771	Americas
40	Zambia	752,612 km²	21,314,956	Africa
41	Myanmar	676,578 km²	54,500,091	Asia
42	Afghanistan	652,230 km²	42,647,492	Asia
43	Somalia	637,657 km²	19,009,151	Africa
44	Central African Republic	622,984 km²	5,330,690	Africa
45	South Sudan	619,745 km²	11,943,408	Africa
46	Ukraine	603,550 km²	37,860,221	Europe
47	Madagascar	587,041 km²	31,964,956	Africa
48	Botswana	582,000 km²	2,521,139	Africa
49	Kenya	580,367 km²	56,432,944	Africa
50	France	543,908 km²	68,551,653	Europe
51	Yemen	527,968 km²	40,583,164	Asia
52	Thailand	513,120 km²	71,668,011	Asia
53	Spain	505,992 km²	48,848,840	Europe
54	Turkmenistan	488,100 km²	7,494,498	Asia
55	Cameroon	475,442 km²	29,123,744	Africa
56	Papua New Guinea	462,840 km²	10,576,502	Oceania
57	Sweden	450,295 km²	10,569,709	Europe
58	Uzbekistan	447,400 km²	36,361,859	Asia
59	Morocco	446,550 km²	38,081,173	Africa
60	Iraq	438,317 km²	46,042,015	Asia
61	Paraguay	406,752 km²	6,929,153	Americas
62	Zimbabwe	390,757 km²	16,634,373	Africa
63	Norway	386,224 km²	5,572,279	Europe
64	Japan	377,930 km²	123,975,371	Asia
65	Germany	357,114 km²	83,516,593	Europe
66	Philippines	342,353 km²	115,843,670	Asia
67	Republic of the Congo	342,000 km²	6,332,961	Africa
68	Finland	338,455 km²	5,619,911	Europe
69	Vietnam	331,212 km²	100,987,686	Asia
70	Malaysia	330,803 km²	35,557,673	Asia
71	Ivory Coast	322,463 km²	31,934,230	Africa
72	Poland	312,679 km²	36,559,233	Europe
73	Oman	309,500 km²	5,281,538	Asia
74	Italy	301,336 km²	58,952,704	Europe
75	Ecuador	276,841 km²	18,135,478	Americas
76	Burkina Faso	272,967 km²	23,548,781	Africa
77	New Zealand	268,838 km²	5,287,500	Oceania
78	Gabon	267,668 km²	2,538,952	Africa
79	Western Sahara	266,000 km²	600,904	Africa
80	Guinea	245,857 km²	14,754,785	Africa
81	United Kingdom	244,376 km²	69,226,000	Europe
82	Uganda	241,550 km²	50,015,092	Africa
83	Ghana	238,533 km²	34,427,414	Africa
84	Romania	238,391 km²	19,051,804	Europe
85	Laos	236,800 km²	7,769,819	Asia
86	Guyana	214,969 km²	831,087	Americas
87	Belarus	207,600 km²	9,132,629	Europe
88	Kyrgyzstan	199,951 km²	7,221,868	Asia
89	Senegal	196,722 km²	18,501,984	Africa
90	Syria	185,180 km²	24,672,760	Asia
91	Cambodia	181,035 km²	17,638,801	Asia
92	Uruguay	181,034 km²	3,386,588	Americas
93	Suriname	163,820 km²	634,431	Americas
94	Tunisia	163,610 km²	12,277,109	Africa
95	Bangladesh	147,570 km²	173,562,364	Asia
96	Nepal	147,181 km²	29,651,054	Asia
97	Tajikistan	143,100 km²	10,590,927	Asia
98	Greece	131,990 km²	10,405,134	Europe
99	Nicaragua	130,373 km²	6,916,140	Americas
100	North Korea	120,538 km²	26,498,823	Asia
101	Malawi	118,484 km²	21,655,286	Africa
102	Eritrea	117,600 km²	3,535,603	Africa
103	Benin	112,622 km²	14,462,724	Africa
104	Honduras	112,492 km²	10,825,703	Americas
105	Liberia	111,369 km²	5,612,817	Africa
106	Bulgaria	110,879 km²	6,441,421	Europe
107	Cuba	109,884 km²	10,979,783	Americas
108	Guatemala	108,889 km²	18,406,359	Americas
109	Iceland	103,000 km²	386,506	Europe
110	South Korea	100,210 km²	51,751,065	Asia
111	Hungary	93,028 km²	9,562,065	Europe
112	Portugal	92,090 km²	10,694,681	Europe
113	Jordan	89,342 km²	11,552,876	Asia
114	Azerbaijan	86,600 km²	10,202,830	Asia
115	Austria	83,871 km²	9,177,982	Europe
116	United Arab Emirates	83,600 km²	10,986,400	Asia
117	French Guiana	83,534 km²	292,354	Americas
118	Czechia	78,865 km²	10,905,028	Europe
119	Serbia	77,589 km²	6,586,476	Europe
120	Panama	75,417 km²	4,515,577	Americas
121	Sierra Leone	71,740 km²	8,642,022	Africa
122	Ireland	70,273 km²	5,395,790	Europe
123	Georgia	69,700 km²	3,699,557	Asia
124	Sri Lanka	65,610 km²	21,916,000	Asia
125	Lithuania	65,300 km²	2,888,278	Europe
126	Latvia	64,559 km²	1,866,124	Europe
127	Svalbard and Jan Mayen	61,399 km²	2,530	Europe
128	Togo	56,785 km²	9,515,236	Africa
129	Croatia	56,594 km²	3,866,200	Europe
130	Bosnia and Herzegovina	51,209 km²	3,164,253	Europe
131	Costa Rica	51,100 km²	5,129,910	Americas
132	Slovakia	49,037 km²	5,422,069	Europe
133	Dominican Republic	48,671 km²	11,427,557	Americas
134	Estonia	45,227 km²	1,372,341	Europe
135	Denmark	43,094 km²	5,976,992	Europe
136	Netherlands	41,865 km²	17,993,485	Europe
137	Switzerland	41,284 km²	9,005,582	Europe
138	Bhutan	38,394 km²	791,524	Asia
139	Taiwan	36,197 km²	23,317,031	Asia
140	Guinea-Bissau	36,125 km²	2,201,352	Africa
141	Moldova	33,847 km²	2,402,306	Europe
142	Belgium	30,528 km²	11,858,610	Europe
143	Lesotho	30,355 km²	2,337,423	Africa
144	Armenia	29,743 km²	3,033,500	Asia
145	Solomon Islands	28,896 km²	819,198	Oceania
146	Albania	28,748 km²	2,377,128	Europe
147	Equatorial Guinea	28,051 km²	1,892,516	Africa
148	Burundi	27,834 km²	14,047,786	Africa
149	Haiti	27,750 km²	11,772,557	Americas
150	Rwanda	26,338 km²	14,256,567	Africa
151	North Macedonia	25,713 km²	1,824,359	Europe
152	Djibouti	23,200 km²	1,168,722	Africa
153	Belize	22,966 km²	417,072	Americas
154	Israel	21,937 km²	9,974,400	Asia
155	El Salvador	21,041 km²	6,338,193	Americas
156	Slovenia	20,273 km²	2,127,400	Europe
157	New Caledonia	18,575 km²	292,639	Oceania
158	Fiji	18,272 km²	928,784	Oceania
159	Kuwait	17,818 km²	4,897,263	Asia
160	Eswatini	17,364 km²	1,242,822	Africa
161	Timor-Leste	14,874 km²	1,400,638	Asia
162	Bahamas	13,943 km²	401,283	Americas
163	Montenegro	13,812 km²	623,525	Europe
164	Vanuatu	12,189 km²	327,777	Oceania
165	Falkland Islands	12,173 km²	3,662	Americas
166	Qatar	11,586 km²	2,857,822	Asia
167	Jamaica	10,991 km²	2,839,175	Americas
168	Kosovo	10,908 km²	1,594,353	Europe
169	Gambia	10,689 km²	2,759,988	Africa
170	Lebanon	10,452 km²	5,805,962	Asia
171	Cyprus	9,251 km²	1,358,282	Europe
172	Puerto Rico	8,870 km²	3,203,295	Americas
173	French Southern and Antarctic Lands	7,747 km²	400	Antarctic
174	Palestine	6,220 km²	5,289,152	Asia
175	Brunei	5,765 km²	462,721	Asia
176	Trinidad and Tobago	5,130 km²	1,368,333	Americas
177	French Polynesia	4,167 km²	281,807	Oceania
178	Cape Verde	4,033 km²	524,877	Africa
179	South Georgia	3,903 km²	0	Antarctic
180	Samoa	2,842 km²	218,019	Oceania
181	Luxembourg	2,586 km²	677,012	Europe
182	Réunion	2,511 km²	896,175	Africa
183	Mauritius	2,040 km²	1,245,779	Africa
184	Comoros	1,862 km²	866,628	Africa
185	Guadeloupe	1,628 km²	378,561	Americas
186	Åland Islands	1,580 km²	30,654	Europe
187	Faroe Islands	1,393 km²	54,681	Europe
188	Martinique	1,128 km²	349,925	Americas
189	Hong Kong	1,104 km²	7,524,100	Asia
190	São Tomé and Príncipe	964 km²	235,536	Africa
191	Turks and Caicos Islands	948 km²	46,535	Americas
192	Kiribati	811 km²	134,518	Oceania
193	Bahrain	765 km²	1,588,670	Asia
194	Dominica	751 km²	66,205	Americas
195	Tonga	747 km²	104,175	Oceania
196	Singapore	710 km²	6,036,860	Asia
197	Micronesia	702 km²	113,160	Oceania
198	Saint Lucia	616 km²	179,744	Americas
199	Isle of Man	572 km²	84,160	Europe
200	Guam	549 km²	167,777	Oceania
201	Andorra	468 km²	81,938	Europe
202	Northern Mariana Islands	464 km²	44,278	Oceania
203	Palau	459 km²	17,695	Oceania
204	Seychelles	452 km²	121,354	Africa
205	Curaçao	444 km²	155,967	Americas
206	Antigua and Barbuda	442 km²	93,772	Americas
207	Barbados	430 km²	282,467	Americas
208	Heard Island and McDonald Islands	412 km²	0	Antarctic
209	Saint Helena, Ascension and Tristan da Cunha	394 km²	5,651	Africa
210	Saint Vincent and the Grenadines	389 km²	100,616	Americas
211	Mayotte	374 km²	320,901	Africa
212	United States Virgin Islands	347 km²	104,377	Americas
213	Grenada	344 km²	117,207	Americas
214	Caribbean Netherlands	328 km²	31,980	Americas
215	Malta	316 km²	568,847	Europe
216	Maldives	300 km²	527,799	Asia
217	Cayman Islands	264 km²	74,457	Americas
218	Saint Kitts and Nevis	261 km²	46,843	Americas
219	Niue	260 km²	1,681	Oceania
220	Saint Pierre and Miquelon	242 km²	5,819	Americas
221	Cook Islands	236 km²	15,040	Oceania
222	American Samoa	199 km²	46,765	Oceania
223	Marshall Islands	181 km²	37,548	Oceania
224	Aruba	180 km²	107,995	Americas
225	Liechtenstein	160 km²	40,450	Europe
226	British Virgin Islands	151 km²	39,471	Americas
227	Wallis and Futuna	142 km²	11,620	Oceania
228	Christmas Island	135 km²	1,692	Oceania
229	Jersey	116 km²	103,267	Europe
230	Montserrat	102 km²	4,386	Americas
231	Anguilla	91 km²	16,010	Americas
232	Guernsey	78 km²	64,781	Europe
233	San Marino	61 km²	33,977	Europe
234	British Indian Ocean Territory	60 km²	0	Africa
235	Bermuda	54 km²	64,636	Americas
236	Saint Martin	53 km²	26,129	Americas
237	Bouvet Island	49 km²	0	Antarctic
238	Pitcairn Islands	47 km²	35	Oceania
239	Norfolk Island	36 km²	2,188	Oceania
240	United States Minor Outlying Islands	34.2 km²	0	Americas
241	Sint Maarten	34 km²	43,350	Americas
242	Macau	30 km²	687,000	Asia
243	Tuvalu	26 km²	9,646	Oceania
244	Nauru	21 km²	11,947	Oceania
245	Saint Barthélemy	21 km²	10,562	Americas
246	Cocos (Keeling) Islands	14 km²	593	Oceania
247	Tokelau	12 km²	2,608	Oceania
248	Gibraltar	6 km²	39,329	Europe
249	Monaco	2.02 km²	38,631	Europe
250	Vatican City	0.49 km²	882	Europe