The Largest Countries in the World

Countries ranked by total land area (the world-countries figure every country profile on this site already shows). Russia dwarfs every other nation; the bottom of the table still spans a million square kilometres.

Top 40 by area

#	Country	Continent	Area (km²)	Area (mi²)	Share of land
1	Russia	Eastern Europe	17,098,242	6,601,665	11.48%
2	Antarctica	Antarctic	14,000,000	5,405,428	9.40%
3	Canada	North America	9,984,670	3,855,101	6.70%
4	China	Eastern Asia	9,706,961	3,747,877	6.52%
5	United States	North America	9,372,610	3,618,783	6.29%
6	Brazil	South America	8,515,767	3,287,955	5.72%
7	Australia	Australia & New Zealand	7,692,024	2,969,906	5.16%
8	India	Southern Asia	3,287,590	1,269,345	2.21%
9	Argentina	South America	2,780,400	1,073,518	1.87%
10	Kazakhstan	Central Asia	2,724,900	1,052,089	1.83%
11	Algeria	Northern Africa	2,381,741	919,595	1.60%
12	DR Congo	Middle Africa	2,344,858	905,354	1.57%
13	Greenland	North America	2,166,086	836,330	1.45%
14	Saudi Arabia	Western Asia	2,149,690	830,000	1.44%
15	Mexico	North America	1,964,375	758,449	1.32%
16	Indonesia	South-Eastern Asia	1,904,569	735,358	1.28%
17	Sudan	Northern Africa	1,886,068	728,215	1.27%
18	Libya	Northern Africa	1,759,540	679,362	1.18%
19	Iran	Southern Asia	1,648,195	636,371	1.11%
20	Mongolia	Eastern Asia	1,564,110	603,906	1.05%
21	Peru	South America	1,285,216	496,224	0.86%
22	Chad	Middle Africa	1,284,000	495,755	0.86%
23	Niger	Western Africa	1,267,000	489,191	0.85%
24	Angola	Middle Africa	1,246,700	481,353	0.84%
25	Mali	Western Africa	1,240,192	478,841	0.83%
26	South Africa	Southern Africa	1,221,037	471,445	0.82%
27	Colombia	South America	1,141,748	440,831	0.77%
28	Ethiopia	Eastern Africa	1,104,300	426,372	0.74%
29	Bolivia	South America	1,098,581	424,164	0.74%
30	Mauritania	Western Africa	1,030,700	397,955	0.69%
31	Egypt	Northern Africa	1,002,450	387,048	0.67%
32	Tanzania	Eastern Africa	945,087	364,900	0.63%
33	Nigeria	Western Africa	923,768	356,669	0.62%
34	Venezuela	South America	916,445	353,841	0.62%
35	Pakistan	Southern Asia	881,912	340,508	0.59%
36	Namibia	Southern Africa	825,615	318,772	0.55%
37	Mozambique	Eastern Africa	801,590	309,496	0.54%
38	Türkiye	Western Asia	783,562	302,535	0.53%
39	Chile	South America	756,102	291,932	0.51%
40	Zambia	Eastern Africa	752,612	290,585	0.51%

Rankings by total area (land + inland water) as published by the open world-countries package. "Share of land" is against Earth’s ~148,939,063 km² of land. Explore the full country directory, the smallest countries list, and single-superlative records on World Extremes.