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