Land area in Oceania

19 countries in Oceania, 2023. Unit: km². World ranking →

First in the ranking
7,692,020 km²
Australia
Median country
810 km²
half above, half below
World total
129.8 mn km²
World Bank aggregate
Range
20 to 7,692,020
Nauru - Australia

How to read it

Across 19 countries in Oceania, the highest value is in Australia (7,692,020 km²) and the lowest in Nauru (20 km²).

The median country is at 810 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
1Australia7,692,020
2Papua New Guinea452,860
3New Zealand263,310
4Solomon Islands27,990
5New Caledonia18,280
6Fiji18,270
7Vanuatu12,190
8French Polynesia3,471
9Samoa2,780
10Kiribati810
11Tonga720
12Federated States of Micronesia700
13Guam540
14Northern Mariana Islands460
15Palau460
16American Samoa200
17Marshall Islands180
18Tuvalu30
19Nauru20
World Bank, WDI · AG.LND.TOTL.K2 · 2023 · CC BY 4.0 Source and licence

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