Land area in North America

34 countries in North America, 2023. Unit: km². World ranking →

First in the ranking
9,147,420 km²
United States
Median country
7,000 km²
half above, half below
World total
129.8 mn km²
World Bank aggregate
Range
34 to 9,147,420
Sint Maarten - United States

How to read it

Across 34 countries in North America, the highest value is in United States (9,147,420 km²) and the lowest in Sint Maarten (34 km²).

The median country is at 7,000 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
1United States9,147,420
2Canada8,788,700
3Mexico1,943,950
4Greenland410,450
5Nicaragua120,340
6Honduras111,890
7Guatemala107,160
8Cuba103,800
9Panama74,180
10Costa Rica51,060
11Dominican Republic48,198
12Haiti27,560
13Belize22,810
14El Salvador20,720
15Jamaica10,830
16Bahamas10,010
17Puerto Rico8,870
18Trinidad and Tobago5,130
19Turks and Caicos Islands950
20Dominica750
21Saint Lucia610
22Curaçao444
23Antigua and Barbuda440
24Barbados430
25Saint Vincent and the Grenadines390
26United States Virgin Islands350
27Grenada340
28Saint Kitts and Nevis260
29Cayman Islands240
30Aruba180
31British Virgin Islands150
32Bermuda54
33Saint-Martin50
34Sint Maarten34
World Bank, WDI · AG.LND.TOTL.K2 · 2023 · CC BY 4.0 Source and licence

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