New Largest Countries In The World By Size Images. Data is taken from the united nations statistics division. The total area is the sum of all land and inland water bodies (lakes, reservoirs, rivers).
Largest countries in the world (by area) the largest country in the world is russia with a total area of 17,098,242 km² (6,601,665 mi²) and a land area of 16,376,870 km² (6,323,142 mi²), equivalent to 11% of the total world's landmass of 148,940,000 km² (57,510,000 square miles).
Russia moves up the ladder to the sixth spot for rankings. This is a list of the world's countries and their dependent territories by area, ranked by total area. The 50 largest countries and territories of the world, in order from the largest, by land surface area. However, it is smaller than the us once you consider all of the us's territories.