Land area in Asia

50 countries in Asia, 2023. Unit: km². World ranking →

First in the ranking
9,388,210 km²
China
Median country
159,935 km²
half above, half below
World total
129.8 mn km²
World Bank aggregate
Range
33 to 9,388,210
Macao - China

How to read it

Across 50 countries in Asia, the highest value is in China (9,388,210 km²) and the lowest in Macao (33 km²).

The median country is at 159,935 km²: half are above, half below.

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.

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Source: FAOSTAT, Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), uri: https://www.fao.org/faostat/en/#data/RL, publisher: Food and Agriculture… · via World Bank WDI (AG.LND.TOTL.K2) · licence

Land area over time

km²

Ranking of countries

2023
In chart Share of the highest value
1China9,388,210
2India2,973,190
3Kazakhstan2,699,700
4Saudi Arabia2,149,690
5Indonesia1,892,555
6Iran1,622,500
7Mongolia1,558,500
8Pakistan770,880
9Türkiye769,630
10Myanmar652,670
11Afghanistan652,230
12Yemen527,970
13Thailand510,890
14Turkmenistan469,930
15Uzbekistan440,650
16Iraq434,130
17Japan364,569
18Malaysia328,550
19Vietnam313,429
20Oman309,500
21Philippines298,170
22Laos230,800
23Kyrgyzstan191,800
24Syria183,630
25Cambodia176,520
26Nepal143,350
27Tajikistan138,790
28Bangladesh129,980
29North Korea120,410
30South Korea97,600
31Jordan88,794
32Azerbaijan82,650
33United Arab Emirates71,020
34Georgia69,490
35Sri Lanka61,860
36Bhutan38,140
37Armenia28,199
38Israel21,640
39Kuwait17,820
40Timor-Leste14,870
41Qatar11,490
42Lebanon10,230
43Cyprus9,240
44Palestine6,025
45Brunei5,270
46Hong Kong1,050
47Bahrain800
48Singapore718
49Maldives298
50Macao33
World Bank, WDI · AG.LND.TOTL.K2 · 2023 · CC BY 4.0 Source and licence

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