Arab states
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For information specific to membership in the Arab League, see Member states of the Arab League.
This is a list of the Arab States.
| Country | Area (Rank) | Area (km2)[Note 1] | Area (sq mi) | Area (% of Total) | Area (Notes) | Pop | Pop (World rank) | Density (rank) | Density (/km2) | Density (/mi2) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 Algeria |
1 | 2,381,741 | 919,595 | 18.1% | Largest country in Africa and in the Arab world. | 37,100,000 | 34 | 17 | 16 | 41 |
 Bahrain |
22 | 758 | 293 | 0.005% | 1,234,596 | 155 | 1 | 1,646 | 4,263 | |
 Comoros |
21 | 2,235 | 863 | 0.01% | 691,000 | 163 | 4 | 309 | 800 | |
 Djibouti |
16 | 23,200 | 9,000 | 0.1% | 864,000 | 159 | 15 | 37 | 96 | |
 Egypt |
6 | 1,002,000 | 387,000 | 7.6% | Excluding the Hala'ib Triangle (20,580 km2/7,950 sq mi). | 81,650,212[1] | 16 | 9 | 95 | 246 |
 Iraq |
10 | 435,244 | 168,049 | 3.3% | 30,747,000 | 40 | 12 | 70 | 181 | |
 Jordan |
14 | 89,342 | 34,495 | 0.7% | 6,316,000 | 106 | 11 | 71 | 184 | |
 Kuwait |
17 | 17,818 | 6,880 | 0.1% | 2,700,000 | 134 | 5 | 200 | 518 | |
 Libya |
4 | 1,759,540 | 679,360 | 11.4% | 6,420,000 | 103 | 21 | 3.6 | 9.3 | |
 Mauritania |
5 | 1,025,520 | 395,960 | 7.8% | 3,291,000 | 138 | 22 | 3.2 | 8.3 | |
 Morocco |
9 | 446,550 | 172,410 | 3.4% | Does not include Western Sahara (266,000 km2/103,000 sq mi). | 36,064,173 | 35 | 10 | 78 | 202 |
 Oman |
11 | 309,500 | 119,500 | 2.4% | 2,845,000 | 139 | 20 | 9.2 | 24 | |
 State of Palestine |
20 | 6,020 | 2,320 | 0.05% | 4,550,368 | 126 | 2 | 687 | 1,779 | |
 Qatar |
18 | 11,586 | 4,473 | 0.08% | 2,155,446 | 149 | 6 | 154 | 399 | |
 Saudi Arabia |
2 | 2,149,690 | 830,000 | 16.4% | Largest country in the Middle East. | 28,146,658 | 45 | 19 | 131 | 339 |
 Somalia |
7 | 637,657 | 246,201 | 4.9% | Longest Coastline in Africa and the Arab League. | 9,133,000 | 85 | 18 | 14 | 36 |
 Sudan |
3 | 1,861,484 | 718,723 | 14.2% | Formerly the largest country in Africa. | 30,894,000 | 39 | 16 | 16 | 41 |
 Syria |
12 | 185,180 | 71,500 | 1.4% | Including the part of the Golan Heights (1,200 km2/460 sq mi) currently occupied by Israel. | 21,906,000 | 55 | 7 | 118 | 306 |
 Tunisia |
13 | 163,610 | 63,170 | 1.2% | 10,673,800 | 77 | 13 | 65 | 168 | |
 United Arab Emirates |
15 | 83,600 | 32,300 | 0.6% | 8,264,070 | 93 | 8 | 99 | 256 | |
 Yemen |
8 | 527,968 | 203,850 | 4.0% | 23,580,000 | 49 | 14 | 45 | 117 | |
TOTAL  Arab League |
# | # | # | # | # | 349,870,608 |
Notes[edit]
- ^ Source, unless otherwise specified: "Demographic Yearbook—Table 3: Population by sex, rate of population increase, surface area and density" (PDF). United Nations Statistics Division. 2008. Retrieved 24 September 2010.
Entries in this table giving figures other than the figures given in this source are bracketed by asterisks () in the Notes field, and the rationale for the figure used are explained in the associated Note.
References[edit]
- ^ "CAPMAS homepage". Retrieved 15 August 2011.
