The Smallest Countries in the World by Area

🇻🇦 Vatican City tops the list, with 0.44 km².

At the other end of the scale sit the microstates and small island nations. This list ranks the smallest countries in the world by land area, starting with the very smallest.

#	Country	Area
1	Vatican City	0.44 km²
2	Monaco	2.02 km²
3	Nauru	21 km²
4	Tuvalu	26 km²
5	San Marino	61 km²
6	Liechtenstein	160 km²
7	Marshall Islands	181 km²
8	Saint Kitts and Nevis	261 km²
9	Maldives	300 km²
10	Malta	316 km²
11	Grenada	344 km²
12	Saint Vincent and the Grenadines	389 km²
13	Barbados	430 km²
14	Antigua and Barbuda	442 km²
15	Seychelles	452 km²
16	Palau	459 km²
17	Andorra	468 km²
18	Saint Lucia	616 km²
19	Micronesia	702 km²
20	Singapore	710 km²
21	Tonga	747 km²
22	Dominica	751 km²
23	Bahrain	765 km²
24	Kiribati	811 km²
25	São Tomé and Príncipe	964 km²
26	Comoros	1,862 km²
27	Mauritius	2,040 km²
28	Luxembourg	2,586 km²
29	Samoa	2,842 km²
30	Cape Verde	4,033 km²
31	Trinidad and Tobago	5,130 km²
32	Brunei	5,765 km²
33	Cyprus	9,251 km²
34	Lebanon	10,452 km²
35	Gambia	10,689 km²
36	Jamaica	10,991 km²
37	Qatar	11,586 km²
38	Vanuatu	12,189 km²
39	Montenegro	13,812 km²
40	Bahamas	13,943 km²
41	Timor-Leste	14,874 km²
42	Eswatini	17,364 km²
43	Kuwait	17,818 km²
44	Fiji	18,272 km²
45	Slovenia	20,273 km²
46	Israel	20,770 km²
47	El Salvador	21,041 km²
48	Belize	22,966 km²
49	Djibouti	23,200 km²
50	North Macedonia	25,713 km²

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