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List of countries in the Americas by area

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This is a list of all the countries and dependencies in the Americas by area. The region includes North America, Greenland, Central America the Caribbean and South America. Canada is the largest country in the Americas with 9,98 million km². In second place, United States with 9,83 million km². Brazil with 8,51 million km² and Argentina with 2,78 million km² finish up the top 4 largest countries. Greenland is a part of the Kingdom of Denmark. Parts of primarily non American countries partly lying in the North American Plate such as Siberia, Iceland and the Azores are not commonly associated with the Americas, and therefore excluded from the list

# Country / dependency Area Official language(s) Data
1  Canada 9,984,670 km² English
French 		[a]
2  United States 9,836,517 km² English
Spanish 		[b]
3  Brazil 8,515,770 km² Portuguese [c]
4  Argentina 2,780,400 km² Spanish [d]
–  Greenland 2,166,086 km² Greenlandic [e]
5  Mexico 1,964,375 km² Spanish [f]
6  Peru 1,285,216 km² Spanish
Aymara
7  Colombia 1,138,910 km² Spanish
8  Bolivia 1,098,581 km² Spanish
Aymara
Quechua
9  Venezuela 912,050 km² Spanish [g]
10  Chile 756,102 km² Spanish [h]
11  Paraguay 406,752 km² Spanish
Guarani
12  Ecuador 283,756 km² Spanish
13  Guyana 214,969 km² English [i]
14  Uruguay 176,215 km² Spanish
15  Suriname 163,820 km² Dutch [j]
16  Nicaragua 130,370 km² Spanish
17  Honduras 112,090 km² Spanish
18  Cuba 110,090 km² Spanish
19  Guatemala 108,889 km² Spanish [k]
–  French Guiana 83,534 km² French [l]
20  Panama 75,420 km² Spanish [m]
21  Costa Rica 51,100 km² Spanish
22  Dominican Republic 48,670 km² Spanish
23  Haiti 27,750 km² Haitian Creole

French

24  Belize 22,966 km² English
25  El Salvador 21,041 km² Spanish [n]
26  Bahamas 13,880 km² English
–  Falkland Islands 12,173 km² English
27  Jamaica 10,991 km² English
–  Puerto Rico 9,104 km² Spanish

English

28  Trinidad and Tobago 5,128 km² English
–  South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands 3,903 km² English
–  Guadeloupe 1,628 km² French [o]
–  Martinique 1,128 km² French [p]
–  Turks and Caicos Islands 948 km² English
29  Dominica 751 km² English
30  Saint Lucia 606 km² English
–  Curaçao 444 km² Dutch
31  Antigua and Barbuda 442 km² English
32  Barbados 430 km² English
33  Saint Vincent and the Grenadines 389 km² English
–  United States Virgin Islands 346 km² English
34  Grenada 344 km² English
–  Bonaire 288 km² Dutch [q]
–  Cayman Islands 264 km² English
35  Saint Kitts and Nevis 261 km² English [r]
–  Saint Pierre and Miquelon 242 km² French
–  Aruba 180 km² Dutch
–  British Virgin Islands 151 km² English
–  Montserrat 102 km² English
–  Anguilla 91 km² English
–  Saint Martin 54 km² French
–  Bermuda 54 km² English
–  Sint Maarten 34 km² Dutch
–  Saint Barthelemy 21 km² French
–  Sint Eustatius 21 km² English
Dutch 		[s]
–  Saba 13 km² English
Dutch 		[t]

Notes change

  1. ↑ Largest English and French-speaking country in the world by area and largest country in North America and Anglo-America
  2. ↑ Largest Spanish-speaking country in the world by area and Second largest English-speaking country in the world after Canada by area. Excluding US Territories
  3. ↑ Largest country in South America and Latin America and largest Portuguese-speaking country in the world by area
  4. ↑ Second largest Spanish-speaking country in the world after the United States by area. Excludes the British-Argentine dispute (the Falkland Islands and the South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands and Argentine Antarctica
  5. ↑ Integral part of Denmark. Largest country in Denmark, largest island in the world and the largest inhabited non-sovereign territory in the world. A 1,755,000 km² (81%) of the area is covered by ice. The ice-free areas include the coasts of Greenland.
  6. ↑ Third largest Spanish-speaking country in the world after Argentina and the United States by area. Highest number of Spanish speakers in the world
  7. ↑ Excludes Guayana Esequiba.
  8. ↑ Excludes claims in Antarctica.
  9. ↑ Excludes the region of Tigri.
  10. ↑ Smallest country located entirely in South America
  11. ↑ Excludes the Guatemalan-Belizean dispute.
  12. ↑ Integral part of France. Excludes the Surinamese-French dispute.
  13. ↑ Transcontinental country beetwen North America and South America
  14. ↑ Smallest contry in mainland Americas.
  15. ↑ Integral part of France
  16. ↑ Integral part of France
  17. ↑ Integral part of the Netherlands
  18. ↑ Smallest country in the Americas and the Western Hemisphere.
  19. ↑ Integral part of the Netherlands.
  20. ↑ Integral part of the Netherlands.
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