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 (km²) | Land area (km²) | Water area (km²) | Official language(s) | Data | |
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1 | Canada | 9,984,670 km² | 9,044,004 km² | 866,446 km² | English French |
Largest English- and French-speaking country in the world by area and the largest country in the Americas, in North America, Anglo-America, and the Western Hemisphere (second largest by land area after the United States.) Figures include freshwater. |
2 | United States | 9,836,517 km² | 9,136,000 km² | 700,517 km² | English Spanish |
The largest English-speaking country, the largest in the Western Hemisphere by land area and the largest Spanish-speaking country in the world by area (Second largest by total area after Canada) |
3 | Brazil | 8,515,770 km² | 8,322,000 km² | 218,770 km² | Portuguese | Largest country in South America and Latin America and largest Portuguese-speaking country in the world by area. |
4 | Argentina | 2,780,400 km² | 2,730,000 km² | 50,400 km² | Spanish | 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 |
– | Greenland (Denmark) | 2,166,086 km² | 2,166,086 km² | 0 km² | Greenlandic | Integral part of Denmark. Largest country in Denmark, largest island in the world and the largest inhabited non-sovereign territory in the world. A total of 1,755,086 km² (81%) of the land area is covered by ice. The ice-free areas sum to 410,000 km² |
5 | Mexico | 1,964,375 km² | 1,924,000 km² | 40,375 km² | Spanish | The third-largest Spanish-speaking country in the world after Argentina and the United States by area. Highest number of Spanish speakers in the world. |
6 | Peru | 1,285,216 km² | 1,255,000 km² | 30,216 km² | Spanish Aymara |
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7 | Colombia | 1,138,910 km² | 1,078,000 km² | 40,910 km² | Spanish | |
8 | Bolivia | 1,098,581 km² | 1,038,000 km² | 60,581 km² | Spanish Aymara Quechua |
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9 | Venezuela | 912,050 km² | 890,050 km² | 32,000 km² | Spanish | Excludes Guayana Esequiba. |
10 | Chile | 756,102 km² | Spanish | Excludes claims in Antarctica. | ||
11 | Paraguay | 406,752 km² | Spanish Guarani |
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12 | Ecuador | 283,756 km² | Spanish | |||
13 ` | Guyana | 214,969 km² | English | Excludes the region of Tigri. | ||
14 | Uruguay | 176,215 km² | Spanish | |||
15 | Suriname | 163,820 km² | Dutch | Smallest country located entirely in South America. | ||
16 | Nicaragua | 130,370 km² | Spanish | |||
17 | Honduras | 112,090 km² | Spanish | |||
18 | Cuba | 110,090 km² | Spanish | |||
19 | Guatemala | 108,889 km² | Spanish | Excludes the Guatemalan-Belizean dispute. | ||
– | French Guiana (France) | 83,534 km² | French | Integral part of France. Excludes the Surinamese-French dispute. | ||
20 | Panama | 75,420 km² | Spanish | Transcontinental country beetwen North America and South America. | ||
21 | Costa Rica | 51,100 km² | Spanish | |||
22 | Dominican Republic | 48,670 km² | Spanish | |||
23 | Haiti | 27,750 km² | Haitian Creole | |||
24 | Belize | 22,966 km² | English | |||
25 | El Salvador | 21,041 km² | Spanish | [a] | ||
26 | Bahamas | 13,880 km² | English | |||
– | Falkland Islands | 12,173 km² | English | |||
27 | Jamaica | 10,991 km² | English | |||
– | Puerto Rico | 9,104 km² | Spanish | |||
28 | Trinidad and Tobago | 5,128 km² | English | |||
– | South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands | 3,903 km² | English | |||
– | Guadeloupe | 1,628 km² | French | [b] | ||
– | Martinique | 1,128 km² | French | [c] | ||
– | 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 | [d] | ||
– | Cayman Islands | 264 km² | English | |||
35 | Saint Kitts and Nevis | 261 km² | English | [e] | ||
– | 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 |
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– | Saba | 13 km² | English Dutch |
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Notes
change- ↑ Smallest contry in mainland Americas.
- ↑ Integral part of France
- ↑ Integral part of France
- ↑ Integral part of the Netherlands
- ↑ Smallest country in the Americas and the Western Hemisphere.
- ↑ Integral part of the Netherlands.
- ↑ Integral part of the Netherlands.