List of first-level administrative divisions by area
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This is a list of the 50 largest country subdivisions and dependent territories by area (including surface water) in square kilometres.
List of the 50 largest country subdivisions by area
Rank | Subdivision flag | Subdivision name | Capital | Country | Area (km2) | Population | Country similar in area (km2) | Rank in country | Rank among subdivisions that have that rank in their country |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | ![]() |
Sakha Republic | Yakutsk | ![]() |
3,103,200 | 950,300 | India 3,287,263 |
1 | 1 |
2 | ![]() |
State of Western Australia | Perth | ![]() |
2,645,615 | 2,610,600 | Kazakhstan 2,724,900 |
1 | 2 |
3 | ![]() |
Krasnoyarsk Krai | Krasnoyarsk | ![]() |
2,339,700[1] | 2,628,200 | Democratic Republic of the Congo 2,344,858 |
2 | 1 |
4 | ![]() |
Greenland | Nuuk | ![]() |
2,166,086[2][3] | 56,615 | Saudi Arabia 2,149,690 |
1 | 3 |
5 | ![]() |
Territory of Nunavut | Iqaluit | ![]() |
2,093,190 | 33,303 | Mexico 1,964,375 |
1 | 4 |
6 | ![]() |
State of Queensland | Brisbane | ![]() |
1,852,642 | 4,516,361 | Sudan 1,886,068 |
2 | 2 |
7 | ![]() |
State of Alaska | Juneau | ![]() |
1,717,854 | 710,231 | Iran 1,648,195 |
1 | 5 |
8 | ![]() |
Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region | Urumqi | ![]() |
1,660,000 | 21,813,334 | Iran | 1 | 6 |
9 | ![]() |
State of Amazonas | Manaus | ![]() |
1,570,947 | 3,480,937 | Mongolia 1,564,110 |
1 | 7 |
10 | ![]() |
Province of Quebec | Quebec City | ![]() |
1,542,056 | 8,214,672 | Mongolia | 2 | 3 |
11 | ![]() |
Northern Territory | Darwin | ![]() |
1,420,968 | 229,675 | Mongolia | 3 | 1 |
12 | ![]() |
Northwest Territories | Yellowknife | ![]() |
1,346,106[4] | 43,537 | Peru 1,285,216 |
3 | 2 |
13 | ![]() |
State of Pará | Belém | ![]() |
1,253,164 | 7,588,078 | Angola 1,246,700 |
2 | 4 |
14 | ![]() |
Tibet Autonomous Region | Lhasa | ![]() |
1,228,400 | 3,002,166 | South Africa 1,221,037 |
2 | 5 |
15 | ![]() |
Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region | Hohhot | ![]() |
1,183,000 | 24,706,321 | South Africa | 3 | 3 |
16 | ![]() |
Province of Ontario | Toronto | ![]() |
1,076,395 | 13,210,667 | Bolivia 1,098,581 |
4 | 1 |
17 | ![]() |
State of South Australia | Adelaide | ![]() |
1,043,514 | 1,644,642 | Mauritania 1,030,700 |
4 | 2 |
18 | ![]() |
Province of British Columbia | Victoria | ![]() |
948,596 | 4,510,858 | Tanzania 945,087 |
5 | 1 |
19 | ![]() |
State of Mato Grosso | Cuiabá | ![]() |
906,807 | 3,033,991 | Venezuela 916,445 |
3 | 4 |
20 | ![]() |
State of New South Wales | Sydney | ![]() |
809,444 | 7,238,819 | Mozambique 801,590 |
5 | 2 |
21 | ![]() |
Khabarovsk Krai | Khabarovsk | ![]() |
788,600 | 1,344,200 | Turkey 783,562 |
3 | 5 |
22 | ![]() |
Irkutsk Oblast | Irkutsk | ![]() |
767,900 | 2,428,700 | Chile 756,102 |
4 | 3 |
23 | ![]() |
Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous Okrug | Salekhard | ![]() |
750,300[5] | 522,800 | Zambia 752,612 |
5 | 3 |
24 | ![]() |
Chukotka Autonomous Okrug | Anadyr | ![]() |
737,700 | 50,500 | Zambia | 6 | 1 |
25 | ![]() |
Qinghai Province | Xining | ![]() |
721,000 | 5,626,722 | Zambia | 4 | 4 |
26 | ![]() |
State of Texas | Austin | ![]() |
696,241 | 25,145,561 | Myanmar 676,578 |
2 | 6 |
27 | ![]() |
Eastern Province | Dammam | ![]() |
672,522 | 3,360,157 | Myanmar | 1 | 8 |
28 | ![]() |
Province of Alberta | Edmonton | ![]() |
661,848 | 3,724,832 | Afghanistan 652,230 |
6 | 2 |
29 | ![]() |
Province of Saskatchewan | Regina | ![]() |
651,036 | 1,114,170 | Afghanistan | 7 | 1 |
30 | ![]() |
Province of Manitoba | Winnipeg | ![]() |
647,797 | 1,232,654 | France 640,679 |
8 | 1 |
31 | ![]() |
Agadez Region | Agadez | ![]() |
634,209 | 321,639 | Somalia 637,657 |
1 | 9 |
32 | ![]() |
Arkhangelsk Oblast | Arkhangelsk | ![]() |
587,400 | 350,985 | Madagascar 587,041 |
7 | 2 |
33 | ![]() |
State of Minas Gerais | Belo Horizonte | ![]() |
586,528 | 19,595,309 | Madagascar | 4 | 5 |
34 | ![]() |
State of Bahia | Salvador | ![]() |
564,273 | 14,021,432 | Kenya 580,367 |
5 | 4 |
35 | ![]() |
Tamanrasset Province | Tamanrasset | ![]() |
556,200[6] | 198,691 | Kenya | 1 | 10 |
36 | ![]() |
Khanty–Mansi Autonomous Okrug | Khanty-Mansiysk | ![]() |
523,100[5] | 1,532,000 | Yemen 527,968 |
7 | 3 |
37 | ![]() |
Orientale Province | Kisangani | ![]() |
503,239[7] | 5,566,000 | Spain 505,992 |
1 | 11 |
38 | ![]() |
Katanga Province | Lubumbashi | ![]() |
496,871[8] | 4,125,000 | Turkmenistan 488,100 |
2 | 7 |
39 | ![]() |
Tombouctou Region | Timbuktu | ![]() |
496,611 | 681,691 | Turkmenistan | 1 | 12 |
40 | ![]() |
Sichuan Province | Chengdu | ![]() |
485,000 | 80,418,200 | Turkmenistan | 5 | 5 |
41 | ![]() |
Yukon Territory | Whitehorse | ![]() |
482,443 | 34,246 | Turkmenistan | 9 | 1 |
42 | ![]() |
Kufra District | Al Jawf | ![]() |
479,160[6] | 50,104 | Cameroon 475,442 |
1 | 13 |
43 | ![]() |
Kamchatka Krai | Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky | ![]() |
472,300 | 321,800 | Cameroon | 8 | 2 |
44 | ![]() |
Magadan Oblast | Magadan | ![]() |
461,400 | 157,000 | Papua New Guinea 462,840 |
9 | 2 |
45 | ![]() |
Heilongjiang Province | Harbin | ![]() |
460,000 | 38,312,224 | Papua New Guinea | 6 | 3 |
46 | ![]() |
Gansu Province | Lanzhou | ![]() |
454,000 | 25,575,254 | Sweden 450,295 |
7 | 4 |
47 | ![]() |
Adrar Province | Adrar | ![]() |
443,782 | 402,197 | Morocco 446,550 |
2 | 8 |
48 | ![]() |
New Valley Governorate | Kharga | ![]() |
440,098 | 208,000 | Iraq 438,317 |
1 | 14 |
49 | ![]() |
Zabaykalsky Krai | Chita | ![]() |
431,500 | 1,106,600 | Iraq | 10 | 1 |
50 | ![]() |
Karagandy Region | Karagandy | ![]() |
428,000 | 1,375,000 | Iraq | 1 | 15 |
Area in square kilometers | Number of country subdivisions |
---|---|
2,000,000+ | 5 |
1,500,000–1,999,999 | 5 |
1,000,000–1,499,999 | 7 |
500,000–999,999 | 20 |
428,000–499,999 | 13 |
Total | 50 |
Country | Number of subdivisions |
---|---|
Russia | 11 |
Canada | 9 |
China | 7 |
Australia and Brazil | 5 |
Algeria, Democratic Republic of the Congo and the United States | 2 |
Denmark, Egypt, Kazakhstan, Libya, Mali, Niger and Saudi Arabia | 1 |
See also
- List of countries and dependencies by area
- List of country subdivisions by population
- List of political and geographic subdivisions by total area
- Orders of magnitude (area)
Notes
- ^ Includes the 897,900 km2 Taymyrsky Dolgano-Nenetsky District
- ^ Greenland is a subdivision of the Kingdom of Denmark; it is uncertain whether Greenland is better classified as a sovereign state subdivision or as a country in its own right.
- ^ If Greenland would be listed as a country its two largest municipalities (Qaasuitsup and Sermersooq should both be listed as numbers 26 and 35 with areas of 660,000 and 531,900 km2 respectively, being then the first order subdivision
- ^ The area of the Northwest Territories in Canada was 3,439,296 km2, making it the world's largest subdivision, until 1999, when the territory of Nunavut was split off from the Northwest Territories.
- ^ a b The Tyumen Oblast contains the Khanty–Mansi and the Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous Okrugs, but all three are considered to be federal subjects of Russia. The total area for the oblast (with autonomous okrugs included) is 1,433,270 km2.
- ^ a b These figures cannot be verified by their Wikipedia page.
- ^ The current constitution of DR Congo, ratified in 2006, was to have split Orientale into four new provinces no later than February 2009. As of June 2015 this had not happened.
- ^ The 2006 DR Congo constitution also provides for Katanga to be split into four new provinces.
References
- World-Gazetteer.com at archive.today (archived 2012-12-05)