The Largest Countries in the World by Area

🇷🇺 Russia tops the list, with 17,098,242 km².

Ranked by land area, a handful of countries cover an outsized share of the map. This list runs from the single largest country in the world down through the fifty biggest, each with its area in square kilometres.

#	Country	Area
1	Russia	17,098,242 km²
2	Canada	9,984,670 km²
3	China	9,706,961 km²
4	United States	9,372,610 km²
5	Brazil	8,515,767 km²
6	Australia	7,692,024 km²
7	India	3,287,590 km²
8	Argentina	2,780,400 km²
9	Kazakhstan	2,724,900 km²
10	Algeria	2,381,741 km²
11	DR Congo	2,344,858 km²
12	Saudi Arabia	2,149,690 km²
13	Mexico	1,964,375 km²
14	Indonesia	1,904,569 km²
15	Sudan	1,886,068 km²
16	Libya	1,759,540 km²
17	Iran	1,648,195 km²
18	Mongolia	1,564,110 km²
19	Peru	1,285,216 km²
20	Chad	1,284,000 km²
21	Niger	1,267,000 km²
22	Angola	1,246,700 km²
23	Mali	1,240,192 km²
24	South Africa	1,221,037 km²
25	Colombia	1,141,748 km²
26	Ethiopia	1,104,300 km²
27	Bolivia	1,098,581 km²
28	Mauritania	1,030,700 km²
29	Egypt	1,002,450 km²
30	Tanzania	945,087 km²
31	Nigeria	923,768 km²
32	Venezuela	916,445 km²
33	Pakistan	881,912 km²
34	Namibia	825,615 km²
35	Mozambique	801,590 km²
36	Türkiye	783,562 km²
37	Chile	756,102 km²
38	Zambia	752,612 km²
39	Myanmar	676,578 km²
40	Afghanistan	652,230 km²
41	Somalia	637,657 km²
42	Central African Republic	622,984 km²
43	South Sudan	619,745 km²
44	Ukraine	603,500 km²
45	Madagascar	587,041 km²
46	Botswana	582,000 km²
47	Kenya	580,367 km²
48	France	551,695 km²
49	Yemen	527,968 km²
50	Thailand	513,120 km²

Area and border data from open datasets; population from the World Bank (SP.POP.TOTL). Full sources and vintage on the data page.