Top 100 largest countries by area

The Earth's surface is divided into many countries, and some of them are real giants like Russia, Canada, USA, China, Brazil, and Australia. They occupy huge areas and stretch across the continents.

The 10 largest ones are more or less known to everybody. But more interesting and helpful would be to explore the list of top 100 represented in the table below.

Here you can find the accurate data on the total area of each country (the sum of land and water surfaces) in square kilometers and square miles. Moreover, you can see the neighboring countries having land borders with them.

Note that the list below includes only officially recognized independent states. It does not include dependent territories like Greenland (it is a part of Denmark) and also unrecognized or partially recognized states like Western Sahara (it is rather large but actually does not control 2/3 of its territory disputed by Morocco).