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Dymaxion map of the world with the 30 largest countries and territories by area. This is a list of the world's countries and their dependencies, ranked by total area, including land and water. This list includes entries that are not limited to those in the ISO 3166-1 standard, which covers sovereign states and dependent territories.
Below is a list of European countries and dependencies by area in Europe. [1] As a continent , Europe's total geographical area is about 10 million square kilometres. [ 2 ] Transcontinental countries are ranked according to the size of their European part only, excluding Greece due to the not clearly defined boundaries of its islands between ...
This is an index of a series of comprehensive lists of continents, countries, and first level administrative country subdivisions such as states, provinces, and territories, as well as certain political and geographic features of substantial area. [1]
South Australia: 983,482: State of Australia. Egypt: 980,869: Country in Africa; excluding the Halaib Triangle. Sea of Japan: 978,000: Body of water between the Korean Peninsula to the west, Russia to the north, and Japan to the east. Northeast Greenland National Park: 972,000: Largest administrative division of Greenland; largest National Park ...
Largest city Sovereign state Area Population Rank within sovereign state Population density Map 17 South Australia: Adelaide Australia: 984,321 km 2: 1,772,787 [2] 4th 1.7/km 2: 18 British Columbia: Victoria: Vancouver Canada: 944,735 km 2: 5,249,635 [4] 5th 5.41/km 2: 19 Mato Grosso: Cuiabá Brazil: 903,357 km 2: 3,567,234 [9] 3rd 3.94/km 2: ...
Largest broadly connected contiguous landmass, comprising the traditional continents of Europe and Asia; sometimes considered a single continent, it covers 10.6% of Earth's surface (36.2% of the land area).
County of Alaska; largest county in the United States, and largest organized political subdivision that is not a state. East Kalimantan: 245,238: Province of Indonesia. Chihuahua: 244,938: Largest state of Mexico. Great Lakes: 244,100: Lake system in North America, predominately between Canada and the United States. Santa Cruz: 243,943
The Swan River Colony (present-day Perth) was established in 1829, evolving into the largest Australian colony by area, Western Australia. [107] In accordance with population growth, separate colonies were carved from New South Wales: Tasmania in 1825, South Australia in 1836, New Zealand in 1841, Victoria in 1851, and Queensland in 1859. [108]