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  1. 4 days ago · This is a list of the world's countries and their dependencies by land, water, and total area, ranked by total area. The entries in this list include, but are not limited to, those in the ISO 3166-1 standard, which includes sovereign states and dependent territories .

    • Vatican City

      Vatican City (/ ˈ v æ t ɪ k ən / ⓘ), officially the Vatican...

    • Sint Eustatius

      Sint Eustatius (/ j u ˈ s t eɪ ʃ ə s / yoo-STAY-shəs, Dutch...

    • Algeria

      Algeria, officially the People's Democratic Republic of...

  2. May 1, 2024 · There are nearly 200 countries in the world, but when it comes to which is the largest, there is no competition. With a total area of 6,592,850 square miles (17,075,400 square km), Russia is the world’s largest country. A distant second is Canada, with 3,855,103 square miles (9,984,670 square km).

  3. 14 hours ago · This is a list of first-level administrative divisions by area (including surface water) in square kilometres. Country subdivisions [ edit ] 1,000,000 km 2 (386,100 sq mi) and greater [ edit ]

  4. en.wikipedia.org › wiki › AsiaAsia - Wikipedia

    1 day ago · Asia is the largest continent on Earth. It covers 9% of the Earth's total surface area (or 30% of its land area), and has the longest coastline, at 62,800 kilometres (39,022 mi). Asia is generally defined as comprising the eastern four-fifths of Eurasia.

  5. 5 days ago · Indonesia. Indonesia was formerly known as the Dutch East Indies (or Netherlands East Indies). Although Indonesia did not become the country’s official name until the time of independence, the name was used as early as 1884 by a German geographer; it is thought to derive from the Greek indos, meaning “India,” and nesos, meaning “island.”.

  6. 14 hours ago · This is a list of countries and territories by the United Nations geoscheme, including 193 UN member states, two UN observer states (the Holy See and the State of Palestine), two states in free association with New Zealand (the Cook Islands and Niue), and 49 non-sovereign dependencies or territories, as well as Western Sahara (a disputed territory whose sovereignty is contested) and Antarctica.