List of major geographic bodies, ordered according to area

The list includes the world and the oceans (rank nrs. 1,2,3,4,5,7), Antarctica (nr. 8), the Spratly Islands (claimed by various countries; nr 256) and the 259 countries and dependencies which are also listed above.

Pos	Country	Area (km²)
1	World	510,072,000
2	Pacific Ocean	155,557,000
3	Atlantic Ocean	76,762,000
3.5	African Union	29,797,500
4	Indian Ocean	68,556,000
5	Southern Ocean	20,327,000
6	Russia	17,075,200
7	Arctic Ocean	14,056,000
8	Antarctica	14,000,000
9	Canada	9,976,140
10	United States	9,629,091
11	People's Republic of China (mainland only)	9,596,960
12	Brazil	8,511,965
13	Australia	7,686,850
13.5	European Union	3,892,685
14	India	3,287,590
15	Argentina	2,766,890
16	Kazakhstan	2,717,300
17	Sudan	2,505,810
18	Algeria	2,381,740
19	Congo, Democratic Republic of the	2,345,410
20	Greenland	2,166,086
21	Mexico	1,972,550
22	Saudi Arabia	1,960,582
23	Indonesia	1,919,440
24	Libya	1,759,540
25	Iran	1,648,000
26	Mongolia	1,565,000
27	Peru	1,285,220
28	Chad	1,284,000
29	Niger	1,267,000
30	Angola	1,246,700
31	Mali	1,240,000
32	South Africa	1,219,912
33	Colombia	1,138,910
34	Ethiopia	1,127,127
35	Bolivia	1,098,580
36	Mauritania	1,030,700
37	Egypt	1,001,450
38	Tanzania	945,087
39	Nigeria	923,768
40	Venezuela	912,050
41	Namibia	825,418
42	Pakistan	803,940
43	Mozambique	801,590
44	Turkey	780,580
45	Chile	756,950
46	Zambia	752,614
47	Myanmar	678,500
48	Afghanistan	647,500
49	Somalia	637,657
50	Central African Republic	622,984
51	Ukraine	603,700
52	Botswana	600,370
53	Madagascar	587,040
54	Kenya	582,650
55	France	547,030
56	Yemen	527,970
57	Thailand	514,000
58	Spain	504,782
59	Turkmenistan	488,100
60	Cameroon	475,440
61	Papua New Guinea	462,840
62	Sweden	449,964
63	Uzbekistan	447,400
64	Morocco	446,550
65	Iraq	437,072
66	Paraguay	406,750
67	Zimbabwe	390,580
68	Japan	377,835
69	Germany	357,021
70	Congo, Republic of the	342,000
71	Finland	337,030
72	Malaysia	329,750
73	Vietnam	329,560
74	Norway	324,220
75	Côte d'Ivoire	322,460
76	Poland	312,685
77	Italy	301,230
78	Philippines	300,000
79	Ecuador	283,560
80	Burkina Faso	274,200
81	New Zealand	268,680
82	Gabon	267,667
83	Western Sahara	266,000
84	Guinea	245,857
85	United Kingdom	244,820
86	Ghana	239,460
87	Romania	237,500
88	Laos	236,800
89	Uganda	236,040
90	Guyana	214,970
91	Oman	309,500
92	Belarus	207,600
93	Kyrgyzstan	198,500
94	Senegal	196,190
95	Syria	185,180
96	Cambodia	181,040
97	Uruguay	176,220
98	Tunisia	163,610
99	Suriname	163,270
100	Bangladesh	144,000
101	Tajikistan	143,100
102	Nepal	140,800
103	Greece	131,940
104	Nicaragua	129,494
105	Eritrea	121,320
106	Korea, North	120,540
107	Malawi	118,480
108	Benin	112,620
109	Honduras	112,090
110	Liberia	111,370
111	Bulgaria	110,910
112	Cuba	110,860
113	Guatemala	108,890
114	Iceland	103,000
115	Serbia and Montenegro	102,350
116	Korea, South	98,480
117	Hungary	93,030
118	Portugal	92,391
119	Jordan	92,300
120	French Guiana	91,000
121	Azerbaijan	86,600
122	Austria	83,858
123	United Arab Emirates	82,880
124	Czech Republic	78,866
125	Panama	78,200
126	Sierra Leone	71,740
127	Ireland	70,273
128	Georgia	69,700
129	Sri Lanka	65,610
130	Lithuania	65,200
131	Latvia	64,589
132	Svalbard	62,049
133	Togo	56,785
134	Croatia	56,542
135	Bosnia and Herzegovina	51,129
136	Costa Rica	51,100
137	Slovakia	48,845
138	Dominican Republic	48,730
139	Bhutan	47,000
140	Estonia	45,226
141	Denmark	43,094
142	Netherlands	41,526
143	Switzerland	41,290
144	Guinea-Bissau	36,120
145	Republic of China (Taiwan)	35,980
146	Moldova	33,843
147	Belgium	30,510
148	Lesotho	30,355
149	Armenia	29,800
150	Albania	28,748
151	Solomon Islands	28,450
152	Equatorial Guinea	28,051
153	Burundi	27,830
154	Haiti	27,750
155	Rwanda	26,338
156	Republic of Macedonia	25,333
157	Djibouti	23,000
158	Belize	22,966
159	El Salvador	21,040
160	Israel	20,770
161	Slovenia	20,273
162	New Caledonia	19,060
163	Fiji	18,270
164	Kuwait	17,820
165	Swaziland	17,363
166	East Timor	15,007
167	Bahamas, The	13,940
168	Vanuatu	12,200
169	Falkland Islands (Islas Malvinas)	12,173
170	Qatar	11,437
171	Gambia, The	11,300
172	Jamaica	10,991
173	Lebanon	10,452
174	Cyprus	9,250
175	Puerto Rico	9,104
176	French Southern and Antarctic Lands	7,829
177	West Bank	5,860
178	Brunei	5,770
179	Trinidad and Tobago	5,128
180	French Polynesia	4,167
181	Cape Verde	4,033
182	South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands	3,903
183	Samoa	2,944
184	Luxembourg	2,586
185	Réunion	2,517
186	Comoros	2,170
187	Mauritius	2,040
188	Guadeloupe	1,780
189	Faroe Islands	1,399
190	Martinique	1,100
191	Hong Kong	1,092
192	São Tomé and Príncipe	1,001
193	Netherlands Antilles	960
194	Kiribati	811
195	Dominica	754
196	Tonga	748
197	Micronesia, Federated States of	702
198	Singapore	693
199	Bahrain	665
200	Saint Lucia	616
201	Man, Isle of	572
202	Guam	549
203	Northern Mariana Islands	477
204	Andorra	468
205	Palau	458
206	Seychelles	455
207	Antigua and Barbuda	443
208	Barbados	431
209	Turks and Caicos Islands	430
210	Heard Island and McDonald Islands	412
211	Saint Helena	410
212	Saint Vincent and the Grenadines	389
213	Mayotte	374
214	Jan Mayen	373
215	Gaza Strip	360
216	Virgin Islands	352
217	Grenada	344
218	Malta	316
219	Maldives	300
220	Wallis and Futuna	274
221	Cayman Islands	262
222	Saint Kitts and Nevis	261
223	Niue	260
224	Saint-Pierre and Miquelon	242
225	Cook Islands	240
226	American Samoa	199
227	Aruba	193
228	Marshall Islands	181
229	Liechtenstein	160
230	British Virgin Islands	153
231	Christmas Island	135
232	Jersey	116
233	Anguilla	102
234	Montserrat	102
235	Guernsey	78
236	San Marino	61
237	British Indian Ocean Territory	60
238	Bouvet Island	59
239	Bermuda	53
240	Pitcairn Islands	47
241	Norfolk Island	35
242	Europa Island	28
243	Tuvalu	26
244	Macau	25
245	Nauru	21
246	Cocos (Keeling) Islands	14
247	Palmyra Atoll	12
248	Tokelau	10
249	Gibraltar	7
250	Wake Island	7
251	Midway Atoll	6
252	Clipperton Island	6
253	Navassa Island	5
254	Ashmore and Cartier Islands	5
255	Glorioso Islands	5
256	Spratly Islands	5
257	Jarvis Island	5
258	Juan de Nova Island	4
259	Coral Sea Islands	3
260	Johnston Atoll	3
261	Monaco	2
262	Howland Island	2
263	Baker Island	1
264	Kingman Reef	1
265	Tromelin Island	1
266	Holy See (Vatican City)	0.44
267	Bassas da India	0.2

Source

• CIA World Factbook, 1 August, 2003.

See also

• List of countries
• List of countries by area
• List of countries by population
• List of countries by population density
• List of countries by continent
• List of countries by date of nationhood
• Orders of magnitude (area).