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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]
List of political and geographic subdivisions by total area, comparing continents, countries, and first-level administrative country subdivisions. List of first-level administrative divisions by population; List of FIPS region codes in FIPS 10-4, withdrawn from the Federal Information Processing Standard (FIPS) in 2008
A large medieval pagan empire in Europe lasting from 1253-1569 as an independent state, prior to its union with Poland. Measured at its greatest extent in the 15th century. Cyrenaica: 855,370: Eastern coastal region of Libya. Unorganized Borough: 837,700: Subdivided part of Alaska, largest "borough" of the state. Namibia: 824,292: Country in ...
Not included in the list are individual country claims to parts of the continent of Antarctica or entities such as the European Union [a] that have some degree of sovereignty but do not consider themselves to be sovereign countries or dependent territories. This list includes three measurements of area:
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 Europe and Asia. Inland water is included in area numbers.
The local scale level relates to a small area, usually a city or municipality; The regional scale level relates to a larger area, usually a region, state or province; The national scale level relates to a country; The continental scale level refers to a continent; The global scale applies to the entire world;
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: ...
A city-state is an independent sovereign city which serves as the center of political, economic, and cultural life over its contiguous territory. [1] They have existed in many parts of the world throughout history, including cities such as Rome, Carthage, Athens and Sparta and the Italian city-states during the Middle Ages and Renaissance, such as Florence, Venice, Genoa and Milan.