General Knowledge / World GK / Countries in the World
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The list of area wise top 10 largest countries changes when new countries emerge out of the existing countries. Earlier, Sudan was in the list of top 10 largest countries in the world, but the country got divided into two parts, namely Sudan and South Sudan. Hence, Algeria entered into the list.
| Rank | Country | Conti |
Region | Area (sq.km) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Russia | Europe / Asia | Eastern Europe / Northern Asia | 17,098,242 |
| 2 | Canada | North America | Northern North America | 9,984,670 |
| 3 | United States | North America | Central North America | 9,826,675 |
| 4 | China | Asia | Eastern Asia | 9,596,960 |
| 5 | Brazil | South America | Northern South America | 8,514,877 |
| 6 | Australia | Australia | Mainland Australia | 7,741,220 |
| 7 | India | Asia | South Asia | 3,287,263 |
| 8 | Argentina | South America | Southern South America | 2,780,400 |
| 9 | Kazakh |
Asia | Central Asia | 2,724,900 |
| 10 | Algeria | Africa | Northern Africa | 2,381,741 |