Land area

Land area is a country's total area, excluding area under inland water bodies, national claims to continental shelf, and exclusive economic zones. In most cases the definition of inland water bodies includes major rivers and lakes.

Publisher
World Bank
Unit
Cadence
Annual
Series
215
Licence
CC BY 4.0
Updated
2026-09-06

Provenance

Who produced these figures, as World Bank declares it — not inferred, and each line says which published field it was read from.

  1. Produced by

    Food and Agriculture Organization

    FAOSTAT, Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), uri: https://www.fao.org/faostat/en/#data/RL, publisher: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)

    declared by worldbank in sourceOrganization

  2. Read from

    World Bank

    World Development Indicators

    declared by worldbank in source

Latest observations

CountryPeriodValueUnit
Afghanistan2023652,230sq km
Albania202327,400sq km
Algeria20232.38Msq km
American Samoa2023200sq km
Andorra2023470sq km
Angola20231.25Msq km
Antigua and Barbuda2023440sq km
Argentina20232.74Msq km
Armenia202328,199sq km
Aruba2023180sq km

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