Smallest Countries by Land Area (2026)

Vatican City is the smallest country in the world at just 0.49 km². Many of the world's smallest countries are microstates in Europe or small island nations in the Pacific and Caribbean.

#1

Vatican City

0.49 km²

#2

Monaco

2.02 km²

#3

Gibraltar

6 km²

Smallest Countries by Land Area - 250 countries ranked by Area

Rank	Country	Area	Population	Region
1	Vatican City	0.49 km²	882	Europe
2	Monaco	2.02 km²	38,423	Europe
3	Gibraltar	6 km²	38,000	Europe
4	Tokelau	12 km²	2,608	Oceania
5	Cocos (Keeling) Islands	14 km²	593	Oceania
6	Nauru	21 km²	11,680	Oceania
7	Saint Barthélemy	21 km²	10,562	Americas
8	Tuvalu	26 km²	10,643	Oceania
9	Macau	30 km²	685,900	Asia
10	Sint Maarten	34 km²	41,349	Americas
11	United States Minor Outlying Islands	34.2 km²	0	Americas
12	Norfolk Island	36 km²	2,188	Oceania
13	Pitcairn Islands	47 km²	35	Oceania
14	Bouvet Island	49 km²	0	Antarctic
15	Saint Martin	53 km²	31,496	Americas
16	Bermuda	54 km²	64,055	Americas
17	British Indian Ocean Territory	60 km²	0	Africa
18	San Marino	61 km²	34,132	Europe
19	Guernsey	78 km²	64,781	Europe
20	Anguilla	91 km²	16,010	Americas
21	Montserrat	102 km²	4,386	Americas
22	Jersey	116 km²	103,267	Europe
23	Christmas Island	135 km²	1,692	Oceania
24	Wallis and Futuna	142 km²	11,620	Oceania
25	British Virgin Islands	151 km²	39,471	Americas
26	Liechtenstein	160 km²	40,900	Europe
27	Aruba	180 km²	107,566	Americas
28	Marshall Islands	181 km²	42,418	Oceania
29	American Samoa	199 km²	49,710	Oceania
30	Cook Islands	236 km²	15,040	Oceania
31	Saint Pierre and Miquelon	242 km²	5,819	Americas
32	Niue	260 km²	1,681	Oceania
33	Saint Kitts and Nevis	261 km²	51,320	Americas
34	Cayman Islands	264 km²	84,738	Americas
35	Maldives	300 km²	515,132	Asia
36	Malta	316 km²	574,250	Europe
37	Caribbean Netherlands	328 km²	31,980	Americas
38	Grenada	344 km²	109,021	Americas
39	United States Virgin Islands	347 km²	87,146	Americas
40	Mayotte	374 km²	320,901	Africa
41	Saint Vincent and the Grenadines	389 km²	110,872	Americas
42	Saint Helena, Ascension and Tristan da Cunha	394 km²	5,651	Africa
43	Heard Island and McDonald Islands	412 km²	0	Antarctic
44	Barbados	430 km²	267,800	Americas
45	Antigua and Barbuda	442 km²	103,603	Americas
46	Curaçao	444 km²	156,115	Americas
47	Seychelles	452 km²	122,729	Africa
48	Palau	459 km²	16,733	Oceania
49	Northern Mariana Islands	464 km²	47,329	Oceania
50	Andorra	468 km²	88,406	Europe
51	Guam	549 km²	153,836	Oceania
52	Isle of Man	572 km²	84,530	Europe
53	Saint Lucia	616 km²	184,100	Americas
54	Micronesia	702 km²	105,564	Oceania
55	Singapore	710 km²	6,110,200	Asia
56	Tonga	747 km²	100,179	Oceania
57	Dominica	751 km²	67,408	Americas
58	Bahrain	765 km²	1,594,654	Asia
59	Kiribati	811 km²	120,740	Oceania
60	Turks and Caicos Islands	948 km²	50,828	Americas
61	São Tomé and Príncipe	964 km²	209,607	Africa
62	Hong Kong	1,104 km²	7,527,500	Asia
63	Martinique	1,128 km²	349,925	Americas
64	Faroe Islands	1,393 km²	54,885	Europe
65	Åland Islands	1,580 km²	30,654	Europe
66	Guadeloupe	1,628 km²	378,561	Americas
67	Comoros	1,862 km²	919,901	Africa
68	Mauritius	2,040 km²	1,243,741	Africa
69	Réunion	2,511 km²	896,175	Africa
70	Luxembourg	2,586 km²	681,973	Europe
71	Samoa	2,842 km²	205,557	Oceania
72	South Georgia	3,903 km²	0	Antarctic
73	Cape Verde	4,033 km²	491,233	Africa
74	French Polynesia	4,167 km²	279,500	Oceania
75	Trinidad and Tobago	5,130 km²	1,367,764	Americas
76	Brunei	5,765 km²	455,500	Asia
77	Palestine	6,220 km²	5,483,450	Asia
78	French Southern and Antarctic Lands	7,747 km²	400	Antarctic
79	Puerto Rico	8,870 km²	3,203,295	Americas
80	Cyprus	9,251 km²	1,442,614	Europe
81	Lebanon	10,452 km²	5,490,000	Asia
82	Gambia	10,689 km²	2,422,712	Africa
83	Kosovo	10,908 km²	1,585,566	Europe
84	Jamaica	10,991 km²	2,825,544	Americas
85	Qatar	11,586 km²	3,173,024	Asia
86	Falkland Islands	12,173 km²	3,662	Americas
87	Vanuatu	12,189 km²	321,409	Oceania
88	Montenegro	13,812 km²	623,327	Europe
89	Bahamas	13,943 km²	398,165	Americas
90	Timor-Leste	14,874 km²	1,391,221	Asia
91	Eswatini	17,364 km²	1,235,549	Africa
92	Kuwait	17,818 km²	4,881,254	Asia
93	Fiji	18,272 km²	900,869	Oceania
94	New Caledonia	18,575 km²	264,596	Oceania
95	Slovenia	20,273 km²	2,130,638	Europe
96	El Salvador	21,041 km²	6,029,976	Americas
97	Israel	21,937 km²	10,134,800	Asia
98	Belize	22,966 km²	417,634	Americas
99	Djibouti	23,200 km²	1,066,809	Africa
100	North Macedonia	25,713 km²	1,822,612	Europe
101	Rwanda	26,338 km²	14,104,969	Africa
102	Haiti	27,750 km²	11,867,032	Americas
103	Burundi	27,834 km²	12,332,788	Africa
104	Equatorial Guinea	28,051 km²	1,668,768	Africa
105	Albania	28,748 km²	2,363,314	Europe
106	Solomon Islands	28,896 km²	750,325	Oceania
107	Armenia	29,743 km²	3,076,200	Asia
108	Lesotho	30,355 km²	2,116,427	Africa
109	Belgium	30,528 km²	11,825,551	Europe
110	Moldova	33,847 km²	2,749,076	Europe
111	Guinea-Bissau	36,125 km²	1,781,308	Africa
112	Taiwan	36,197 km²	23,317,031	Asia
113	Bhutan	38,394 km²	784,043	Asia
114	Switzerland	41,284 km²	9,082,848	Europe
115	Netherlands	41,865 km²	18,100,436	Europe
116	Denmark	43,094 km²	6,011,488	Europe
117	Estonia	45,227 km²	1,369,995	Europe
118	Dominican Republic	48,671 km²	10,771,504	Americas
119	Slovakia	49,037 km²	5,413,813	Europe
120	Costa Rica	51,100 km²	5,309,625	Americas
121	Bosnia and Herzegovina	51,209 km²	3,422,000	Europe
122	Croatia	56,594 km²	3,866,233	Europe
123	Togo	56,785 km²	8,095,498	Africa
124	Svalbard and Jan Mayen	61,399 km²	2,530	Europe
125	Latvia	64,559 km²	1,829,000	Europe
126	Lithuania	65,300 km²	2,894,886	Europe
127	Sri Lanka	65,610 km²	21,763,170	Asia
128	Georgia	69,700 km²	4,000,921	Asia
129	Ireland	70,273 km²	5,458,600	Europe
130	Sierra Leone	71,740 km²	9,077,691	Africa
131	Panama	75,417 km²	4,064,780	Americas
132	Serbia	77,589 km²	6,567,783	Europe
133	Czechia	78,865 km²	10,882,341	Europe
134	French Guiana	83,534 km²	292,354	Americas
135	United Arab Emirates	83,600 km²	11,294,243	Asia
136	Austria	83,871 km²	9,200,931	Europe
137	Azerbaijan	86,600 km²	10,241,722	Asia
138	Jordan	89,342 km²	11,734,000	Asia
139	Portugal	92,090 km²	10,749,635	Europe
140	Hungary	93,028 km²	9,539,502	Europe
141	South Korea	100,210 km²	51,159,889	Asia
142	Iceland	103,000 km²	391,810	Europe
143	Guatemala	108,889 km²	18,079,810	Americas
144	Cuba	109,884 km²	9,748,007	Americas
145	Bulgaria	110,879 km²	6,437,360	Europe
146	Liberia	111,369 km²	5,248,621	Africa
147	Honduras	112,492 km²	9,892,632	Americas
148	Benin	112,622 km²	13,224,860	Africa
149	Eritrea	117,600 km²	3,607,000	Africa
150	Malawi	118,484 km²	20,734,262	Africa
151	North Korea	120,538 km²	25,950,000	Asia
152	Nicaragua	130,373 km²	6,803,886	Americas
153	Greece	131,990 km²	10,400,720	Europe
154	Tajikistan	143,100 km²	10,499,000	Asia
155	Nepal	147,181 km²	29,911,840	Asia
156	Bangladesh	147,570 km²	169,828,911	Asia
157	Tunisia	163,610 km²	11,972,169	Africa
158	Suriname	163,820 km²	616,500	Americas
159	Uruguay	181,034 km²	3,499,451	Americas
160	Cambodia	181,035 km²	17,577,760	Asia
161	Syria	185,180 km²	25,620,000	Asia
162	Senegal	196,722 km²	18,593,258	Africa
163	Kyrgyzstan	199,951 km²	7,281,800	Asia
164	Belarus	207,600 km²	9,109,280	Europe
165	Guyana	214,969 km²	772,975	Americas
166	Laos	236,800 km²	7,647,000	Asia
167	Romania	238,391 km²	19,036,031	Europe
168	Ghana	238,533 km²	33,742,380	Africa
169	Uganda	241,550 km²	45,905,417	Africa
170	United Kingdom	244,376 km²	69,281,437	Europe
171	Guinea	245,857 km²	14,363,931	Africa
172	Western Sahara	266,000 km²	600,904	Africa
173	Gabon	267,668 km²	2,469,296	Africa
174	New Zealand	268,838 km²	5,324,700	Oceania
175	Burkina Faso	272,967 km²	24,070,553	Africa
176	Ecuador	276,841 km²	18,103,660	Americas
177	Italy	301,336 km²	58,927,633	Europe
178	Oman	309,500 km²	5,343,630	Asia
179	Poland	312,679 km²	37,392,000	Europe
180	Ivory Coast	322,463 km²	31,719,275	Africa
181	Malaysia	330,803 km²	34,231,700	Asia
182	Vietnam	331,212 km²	101,343,800	Asia
183	Finland	338,455 km²	5,650,325	Europe
184	Republic of the Congo	342,000 km²	6,142,180	Africa
185	Philippines	342,353 km²	114,123,600	Asia
186	Germany	357,114 km²	83,491,249	Europe
187	Japan	377,930 km²	123,210,000	Asia
188	Norway	386,224 km²	5,606,944	Europe
189	Zimbabwe	390,757 km²	17,073,087	Africa
190	Paraguay	406,752 km²	6,109,644	Americas
191	Iraq	438,317 km²	46,118,793	Asia
192	Morocco	446,550 km²	36,828,330	Africa
193	Uzbekistan	447,400 km²	37,859,698	Asia
194	Sweden	450,295 km²	10,605,098	Europe
195	Papua New Guinea	462,840 km²	11,781,559	Oceania
196	Cameroon	475,442 km²	29,442,327	Africa
197	Turkmenistan	488,100 km²	7,057,841	Asia
198	Spain	505,992 km²	49,315,949	Europe
199	Thailand	513,120 km²	65,859,640	Asia
200	Yemen	527,968 km²	32,684,503	Asia
201	France	543,908 km²	66,351,959	Europe
202	Kenya	580,367 km²	53,330,978	Africa
203	Botswana	582,000 km²	2,359,609	Africa
204	Madagascar	587,041 km²	31,727,042	Africa
205	Ukraine	603,550 km²	32,862,000	Europe
206	South Sudan	619,745 km²	15,786,898	Africa
207	Central African Republic	622,984 km²	6,470,307	Africa
208	Somalia	637,657 km²	19,655,000	Africa
209	Afghanistan	652,230 km²	43,844,000	Asia
210	Myanmar	676,578 km²	51,316,756	Asia
211	Zambia	752,612 km²	19,693,423	Africa
212	Chile	756,102 km²	20,206,953	Americas
213	Turkey	783,562 km²	85,664,944	Asia
214	Pakistan	796,095 km²	241,499,431	Asia
215	Mozambique	801,590 km²	34,090,466	Africa
216	Namibia	825,615 km²	3,022,401	Africa
217	Venezuela	916,445 km²	28,517,000	Americas
218	Nigeria	923,768 km²	223,800,000	Africa
219	Tanzania	947,303 km²	68,153,004	Africa
220	Egypt	1,002,450 km²	107,271,260	Africa
221	Mauritania	1,030,700 km²	4,927,532	Africa
222	Bolivia	1,098,581 km²	11,365,333	Americas
223	Ethiopia	1,104,300 km²	111,652,998	Africa
224	Colombia	1,141,748 km²	53,057,212	Americas
225	South Africa	1,221,037 km²	63,100,945	Africa
226	Mali	1,240,192 km²	22,395,489	Africa
227	Angola	1,246,700 km²	36,170,961	Africa
228	Niger	1,267,000 km²	26,312,034	Africa
229	Chad	1,284,000 km²	19,340,757	Africa
230	Peru	1,285,216 km²	34,350,244	Americas
231	Mongolia	1,564,110 km²	3,544,835	Asia
232	Iran	1,648,195 km²	85,961,000	Asia
233	Libya	1,759,540 km²	7,459,000	Africa
234	Sudan	1,886,068 km²	51,662,000	Africa
235	Indonesia	1,904,569 km²	284,438,782	Asia
236	Mexico	1,964,375 km²	130,575,786	Americas
237	Saudi Arabia	2,149,690 km²	35,300,280	Asia
238	Greenland	2,166,086 km²	56,542	Americas
239	DR Congo	2,344,858 km²	112,832,000	Africa
240	Algeria	2,381,741 km²	47,400,000	Africa
241	Kazakhstan	2,724,900 km²	20,426,568	Asia
242	Argentina	2,780,400 km²	46,735,004	Americas
243	India	3,287,263 km²	1,417,492,000	Asia
244	Australia	7,692,024 km²	27,536,874	Oceania
245	Brazil	8,515,767 km²	213,421,037	Americas
246	United States	9,525,067 km²	340,110,988	Americas
247	China	9,706,961 km²	1,408,280,000	Asia
248	Canada	9,984,670 km²	41,651,653	Americas
249	Antarctica	14,000,000 km²	1,300	Antarctic
250	Russia	17,098,246 km²	146,028,325	Europe