What Are the World's Biggest Countries?

According to the CIA World Factbook, the total surface area of the earth is 510,072,000 square kilometers (196,939,900 square miles). Of this, 70.8% is water and 29.2% is land. The chart below organizes the top 25 countries in terms of size, starting with the biggest, Russia. Though it's not a self-governing country, as a reference point, Antarctica is about 14,000,000 square km (5,405,430 square miles).

 
         Note that the sizes depict total area, which includes the land and water within each country's borders. Greenland, although an overseas administrative division of Denmark, is included here because it is self-governing.

country	sq. km	sq. miles	size
Russia	17,098,242	6,601,668
Canada	9,984,670	3,855,102
United States	9,826,675	3,794,100
China	9,596,961	3,705,407
Brazil	8,514,877	3,287,612
Australia	7,741,220	2,988,901
India	3,287,263	1,269,219
Argentina	2,780,400	1,073,518
Kazakhstan	2,724,900	1,052,089
Sudan	2,505,813	967,499
Algeria	2,381,741	919,595
D.R. Congo	2,345,410	905,354
Greenland	2,166,086	836,330
Saudi Arabia	2,149,690	830,000
Mexico	1,964,375	758,449
Indonesia	1,904,569	735,358
Libya	1,759,540	679,362
Iran	1,648,195	636,371
Mongolia	1,564,116	603,908
Peru	1,285,216	496,224
Chad	1,284,000	495,755
Niger	1,267,000	489,191
Angola	1,246,700	481,353
Mali	1,240,192	478,840
South Africa	1,219,090	470,693
country	sq. km	sq. miles	size

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