Land area in Oceania

19 countries in Oceania, 2024. Unit: km². World ranking →

First in the ranking
7,688,287 km²
Australia
Median country
811 km²
half above, half below
Range
21 to 7,688,287
Nauru - Australia

How to read it

Across 19 countries in Oceania, the highest value is in Australia (7,688,287 km²) and the lowest in Nauru (21 km²).

The median country is at 811 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
1Australia7,688,287
2Papua New Guinea452,860
3New Zealand263,310
4Solomon Islands27,990
5New Caledonia18,576
6Fiji18,333
7Vanuatu12,189
8French Polynesia3,521
9Samoa2,780
10Kiribati811
11Tonga720
12Federated States of Micronesia701
13Guam541
14Palau460
15Northern Mariana Islands457
16American Samoa199
17Marshall Islands181
18Tuvalu26
19Nauru21
World Bank, WDI · AG.LND.TOTL.K2 · 2024 · CC BY 4.0 Source and licence

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