List of countries and dependencies 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.

Largely unrecognised states not in ISO 3166-1 are included in the list in ranked order.

The areas of such largely unrecognised states are in most cases also included in the areas of the more widely recognised states that claim the same territory; see the notes in the "Notes" column for each country for clarification.

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.