Land area in North America

33 countries in North America, 2024. Unit: km². World ranking →

First in the ranking
9,147,420 km²
United States
Median country
5,128 km²
half above, half below
Range
34 to 9,147,420
Sint Maarten - United States

How to read it

Across 33 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 5,128 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

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Ranking of countries

2024
In chart Share of the highest value
1United States9,147,420
2Canada8,788,700
3Mexico1,943,950
4Greenland410,449
5Honduras111,890
6Guatemala107,160
7Cuba103,800
8Panama74,180
9Costa Rica50,560
10Dominican Republic48,198
11Haiti27,560
12Belize22,810
13El Salvador20,720
14Jamaica10,830
15Bahamas10,010
16Puerto Rico8,870
17Trinidad and Tobago5,128
18Turks and Caicos Islands948
19Dominica751
20Saint Lucia610
21Curaçao444
22Antigua and Barbuda440
23Barbados431
24Saint Vincent and the Grenadines389
25United States Virgin Islands348
26Grenada344
27Saint Kitts and Nevis261
28Cayman Islands240
29Aruba180
30British Virgin Islands151
31Bermuda54
32Saint-Martin53
33Sint Maarten34
World Bank, WDI · AG.LND.TOTL.K2 · 2024 · CC BY 4.0 Source and licence

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