Largest countries in the world by area

The largest country by area is Russia (17,098,242 km²), followed by Canada and China.

Rank	Country	Capital	Area (km²)
1	Russia	Moscow	17,098,242
2	Canada	Ottawa	9,984,670
3	China	Beijing	9,706,961
4	United States	Washington, D.C.	9,372,610
5	Brazil	Brasília	8,515,767
6	Australia	Canberra	7,692,024
7	India	New Delhi	3,287,590
8	Argentina	Buenos Aires	2,780,400
9	Kazakhstan	Astana	2,724,900
10	Algeria	Algiers	2,381,741
11	DR Congo	Kinshasa	2,344,858
12	Saudi Arabia	Riyadh	2,149,690
13	Mexico	Mexico City	1,964,375
14	Indonesia	Jakarta	1,904,569
15	Sudan	Khartoum	1,886,068
16	Libya	Tripoli	1,759,540
17	Iran	Tehran	1,648,195
18	Mongolia	Ulaanbaatar	1,564,110
19	Peru	Lima	1,285,216
20	Chad	N'Djamena	1,284,000
21	Niger	Niamey	1,267,000
22	Angola	Luanda	1,246,700
23	Mali	Bamako	1,240,192
24	South Africa	Pretoria, Bloemfontein, Cape Town	1,221,037
25	Colombia	Bogotá	1,141,748
26	Ethiopia	Addis Ababa	1,104,300
27	Bolivia	Sucre	1,098,581
28	Mauritania	Nouakchott	1,030,700
29	Egypt	Cairo	1,002,450
30	Tanzania	Dodoma	945,087
31	Nigeria	Abuja	923,768
32	Venezuela	Caracas	916,445
33	Pakistan	Islamabad	881,912
34	Namibia	Windhoek	825,615
35	Mozambique	Maputo	801,590
36	Türkiye	Ankara	783,562
37	Chile	Santiago	756,102
38	Zambia	Lusaka	752,612
39	Myanmar	Naypyidaw	676,578
40	Afghanistan	Kabul	652,230
41	Somalia	Mogadishu	637,657
42	Central African Republic	Bangui	622,984
43	South Sudan	Juba	619,745
44	Ukraine	Kyiv	603,500
45	Madagascar	Antananarivo	587,041
46	Botswana	Gaborone	582,000
47	Kenya	Nairobi	580,367
48	France	Paris	551,695
49	Yemen	Sanaa	527,968
50	Thailand	Bangkok	513,120
51	Spain	Madrid	505,992
52	Turkmenistan	Ashgabat	488,100
53	Cameroon	Yaoundé	475,442
54	Papua New Guinea	Port Moresby	462,840
55	Sweden	Stockholm	450,295
56	Uzbekistan	Tashkent	447,400
57	Morocco	Rabat	446,550
58	Iraq	Baghdad	438,317
59	Paraguay	Asunción	406,752
60	Zimbabwe	Harare	390,757
61	Japan	Tokyo	377,930
62	Germany	Berlin	357,114
63	Philippines	Manila	342,353
64	Republic of the Congo	Brazzaville	342,000
65	Finland	Helsinki	338,424
66	Vietnam	Hanoi	331,212
67	Malaysia	Kuala Lumpur	330,803
68	Norway	Oslo	323,802
69	Ivory Coast	Yamoussoukro	322,463
70	Poland	Warsaw	312,679
71	Oman	Muscat	309,500
72	Italy	Rome	301,336
73	Ecuador	Quito	276,841
74	Burkina Faso	Ouagadougou	272,967
75	New Zealand	Wellington	270,467
76	Gabon	Libreville	267,668
77	Guinea	Conakry	245,857
78	United Kingdom	London	242,900
79	Uganda	Kampala	241,550
80	Ghana	Accra	238,533
81	Romania	Bucharest	238,391
82	Laos	Vientiane	236,800
83	Guyana	Georgetown	214,969
84	Belarus	Minsk	207,600
85	Kyrgyzstan	Bishkek	199,951
86	Senegal	Dakar	196,722
87	Syria	Damascus	185,180
88	Cambodia	Phnom Penh	181,035
89	Uruguay	Montevideo	181,034
90	Suriname	Paramaribo	163,820
91	Tunisia	Tunis	163,610
92	Bangladesh	Dhaka	147,570
93	Nepal	Kathmandu	147,181
94	Tajikistan	Dushanbe	143,100
95	Greece	Athens	131,990
96	Nicaragua	Managua	130,373
97	North Korea	Pyongyang	120,538
98	Malawi	Lilongwe	118,484
99	Eritrea	Asmara	117,600
100	Benin	Porto-Novo	112,622
101	Honduras	Tegucigalpa	112,492
102	Liberia	Monrovia	111,369
103	Bulgaria	Sofia	110,879
104	Cuba	Havana	109,884
105	Guatemala	Guatemala City	108,889
106	Iceland	Reykjavík	103,000
107	South Korea	Seoul	100,210
108	Hungary	Budapest	93,028
109	Portugal	Lisbon	92,090
110	Jordan	Amman	89,342
111	Serbia	Belgrade	88,361
112	Azerbaijan	Baku	86,600
113	Austria	Vienna	83,871
114	United Arab Emirates	Abu Dhabi	83,600
115	Czechia	Prague	78,865
116	Panama	Panama City	75,417
117	Sierra Leone	Freetown	71,740
118	Ireland	Dublin	70,273
119	Georgia	Tbilisi	69,700
120	Sri Lanka	Colombo	65,610
121	Lithuania	Vilnius	65,300
122	Latvia	Riga	64,559
123	Togo	Lomé	56,785
124	Croatia	Zagreb	56,594
125	Bosnia and Herzegovina	Sarajevo	51,209
126	Costa Rica	San José	51,100
127	Slovakia	Bratislava	49,037
128	Dominican Republic	Santo Domingo	48,671
129	Estonia	Tallinn	45,227
130	Denmark	Copenhagen	43,094
131	Netherlands	Amsterdam	41,850
132	Switzerland	Bern	41,284
133	Bhutan	Thimphu	38,394
134	Guinea-Bissau	Bissau	36,125
135	Moldova	Chișinău	33,846
136	Belgium	Brussels	30,528
137	Lesotho	Maseru	30,355
138	Armenia	Yerevan	29,743
139	Solomon Islands	Honiara	28,896
140	Albania	Tirana	28,748
141	Equatorial Guinea	Ciudad de la Paz	28,051
142	Burundi	Gitega	27,834
143	Haiti	Port-au-Prince	27,750
144	Rwanda	Kigali	26,338
145	North Macedonia	Skopje	25,713
146	Djibouti	Djibouti	23,200
147	Belize	Belmopan	22,966
148	El Salvador	San Salvador	21,041
149	Israel	Jerusalem	20,770
150	Slovenia	Ljubljana	20,273
151	Fiji	Suva	18,272
152	Kuwait	Kuwait City	17,818
153	Eswatini	Lobamba	17,364
154	Timor-Leste	Dili	14,874
155	Bahamas	Nassau	13,943
156	Montenegro	Podgorica	13,812
157	Vanuatu	Port Vila	12,189
158	Qatar	Doha	11,586
159	Jamaica	Kingston	10,991
160	Gambia	Banjul	10,689
161	Lebanon	Beirut	10,452
162	Cyprus	Nicosia	9,251
163	Palestine	Ramallah	6,220
164	Brunei	Bandar Seri Begawan	5,765
165	Trinidad and Tobago	Port of Spain	5,130
166	Cape Verde	Praia	4,033
167	Samoa	Apia	2,842
168	Luxembourg	Luxembourg	2,586
169	Mauritius	Port Louis	2,040
170	Comoros	Moroni	1,862
171	São Tomé and Príncipe	São Tomé	964
172	Kiribati	South Tarawa	811
173	Bahrain	Manama	765
174	Dominica	Roseau	751
175	Tonga	Nukuʻalofa	747
176	Singapore	Singapore	710
177	Micronesia	Palikir	702
178	Saint Lucia	Castries	616
179	Andorra	Andorra la Vella	468
180	Palau	Ngerulmud	459
181	Seychelles	Victoria	452
182	Antigua and Barbuda	Saint John's	442
183	Barbados	Bridgetown	430
184	Saint Vincent and the Grenadines	Kingstown	389
185	Grenada	St. George's	344
186	Malta	Valletta	316
187	Maldives	Malé	300
188	Saint Kitts and Nevis	Basseterre	261
189	Marshall Islands	Majuro	181
190	Liechtenstein	Vaduz	160
191	San Marino	San Marino	61
192	Tuvalu	Funafuti	26
193	Nauru	Yaren District	21
194	Monaco	Monaco	2
195	Vatican City	Vatican City	0

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