List of countries in the Americas by area

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This is a list of all the countries and dependencies in the Americas by area. The region includes North America, Greenland, Central America the Caribbean and South America. Canada is the largest country in the Americas with 9,98 million km². In second place, United States with 9,83 million km². Brazil with 8,51 million km² and Argentina with 2,78 million km² finish up the top 4 largest countries. Greenland is a part of the Kingdom of Denmark. Parts of primarily non American countries partly lying in the North American Plate such as Siberia, Iceland and the Azores are not commonly associated with the Americas, and therefore excluded from the list

Country / dependency Area (km²) Land area (km²) Water area (km²) Official language(s) Data
1  Canada 9,984,670 km² 9,044,004 km² 866,446 km² English
French
Largest English- and French-speaking country in the world by area and the largest country in the Americas, in North America, Anglo-America, and the Western Hemisphere (second largest by land area after the United States.) Figures include freshwater.
2  United States 9,836,517 km² 9,136,000 km² 700,517 km² English
Spanish
The largest English-speaking country, the largest in the Western Hemisphere by land area and the largest Spanish-speaking country in the world by area (Second largest by total area after Canada)
3  Brazil 8,515,770 km² 8,322,000 km² 218,770 km² Portuguese Largest country in South America and Latin America and largest Portuguese-speaking country in the world by area.
4  Argentina 2,780,400 km² 2,730,000 km² 50,400 km² Spanish Second largest Spanish-speaking country in the world after the United States by area. Excludes the British-Argentine dispute (the Falkland Islands and the South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands and Argentine Antarctica
 Greenland (Denmark) 2,166,086 km² 2,166,086 km² 0 km² Greenlandic Integral part of Denmark. Largest country in Denmark, largest island in the world and the largest inhabited non-sovereign territory in the world. A total of 1,755,086 km² (81%) of the land area is covered by ice. The ice-free areas sum to 410,000 km²
5  Mexico 1,964,375 km² 1,924,000 km² 40,375 km² Spanish The third-largest Spanish-speaking country in the world after Argentina and the United States by area. Highest number of Spanish speakers in the world.
6  Peru 1,285,216 km² 1,255,000 km² 30,216 km² Spanish
Aymara
7  Colombia 1,138,910 km² 1,078,000 km² 40,910 km² Spanish
8  Bolivia 1,098,581 km² 1,038,000 km² 60,581 km² Spanish
Aymara
Quechua
9  Venezuela 912,050 km² 890,050 km² 32,000 km² Spanish Excludes Guayana Esequiba.
10  Chile 756,102 km² Spanish Excludes claims in Antarctica.
11  Paraguay 406,752 km² Spanish
Guarani
12  Ecuador 283,756 km² Spanish
13 `  Guyana 214,969 km² English Excludes the region of Tigri.
14  Uruguay 176,215 km² Spanish
15  Suriname 163,820 km² Dutch Smallest country located entirely in South America.
16  Nicaragua 130,370 km² Spanish
17  Honduras 112,090 km² Spanish
18  Cuba 110,090 km² Spanish
19  Guatemala 108,889 km² Spanish Excludes the Guatemalan-Belizean dispute.
 French Guiana (France) 83,534 km² French Integral part of France. Excludes the Surinamese-French dispute.
20  Panama 75,420 km² Spanish Transcontinental country beetwen North America and South America.
21  Costa Rica 51,100 km² Spanish
22  Dominican Republic 48,670 km² Spanish
23  Haiti 27,750 km² Haitian Creole

French

24  Belize 22,966 km² English
25  El Salvador 21,041 km² Spanish [a]
26  Bahamas 13,880 km² English
 Falkland Islands 12,173 km² English
27  Jamaica 10,991 km² English
 Puerto Rico 9,104 km² Spanish

English

28  Trinidad and Tobago 5,128 km² English
 South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands 3,903 km² English
 Guadeloupe 1,628 km² French [b]
 Martinique 1,128 km² French [c]
 Turks and Caicos Islands 948 km² English
29  Dominica 751 km² English
30  Saint Lucia 606 km² English
 Curaçao 444 km² Dutch
31  Antigua and Barbuda 442 km² English
32  Barbados 430 km² English
33  Saint Vincent and the Grenadines 389 km² English
 United States Virgin Islands 346 km² English
34  Grenada 344 km² English
 Bonaire 288 km² Dutch [d]
 Cayman Islands 264 km² English
35  Saint Kitts and Nevis 261 km² English [e]
 Saint Pierre and Miquelon 242 km² French
 Aruba 180 km² Dutch
 British Virgin Islands 151 km² English
 Montserrat 102 km² English
 Anguilla 91 km² English
 Saint Martin 54 km² French
 Bermuda 54 km² English
 Sint Maarten 34 km² Dutch
 Saint Barthelemy 21 km² French
 Sint Eustatius 21 km² English
Dutch
[f]
 Saba 13 km² English
Dutch
[g]
  1. Smallest contry in mainland Americas.
  2. Integral part of France
  3. Integral part of France
  4. Integral part of the Netherlands
  5. Smallest country in the Americas and the Western Hemisphere.
  6. Integral part of the Netherlands.
  7. Integral part of the Netherlands.