List of European countries by area

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Below is a list of European countries and dependencies by area in Europe. As a continent, Europe's total geographical area is about 10 million square kilometres. Transcontinental countries are ranked according to the size of their European part only. Inland water is included in area numbers.

Relative sizes

European countries vary in area over many orders of magnitude, ranging from Russia which covers almost 4000000 km2 of territory within Europe according to "Definition" below, to Vatican City, which has a total area of less than 1 km2:

List of European countries and dependencies by area

Figures are from the United Nations unless otherwise specified.

Country or dependency %
total 		Europe area
km2 mi2
–    Europe 100% 10,014,000 3,866,000
1 K Russia 39.5% 3,952,550 1,526,090
2   Ukraine 6.0% 603,549 233,032
3 T France 5.4% 543,908 210,004
4 T Spain 5.0% 498,485 192,466
5   Sweden 4.4% 438,574 169,334
6   Germany 3.6% 357,581 138,063
7   Finland 3.4% 336,884 130,072
8   Norway 3.2% 323,772 125,009
9   Poland 3.1% 312,679 120,726
10 T Italy 3.0% 301,958 116,587
11   United Kingdom 2.4% 244,381 94,356
12   Romania 2.4% 238,298 92,007
13   Belarus 2.1% 207,600 80,200
14 K Kazakhstan 1.5% 148,000 57,000
15 T Greece 1.3% 131,957 50,949
16   Bulgaria 1.1% 110,994 42,855
17   Iceland 1.0% 103,000 40,000
18   Hungary 0.9% 93,025 35,917
19 T Portugal 0.9% 91,424 35,299
20   Austria 0.8% 83,878 32,385
21   Czech Republic 0.8% 78,871 30,452
22   Serbia 0.8% 77,589 29,957
23   Ireland 0.7% 69,825 26,960
24   Lithuania 0.7% 65,286 25,207
25   Latvia 0.6% 64,594 24,940
26   Croatia 0.6% 56,594 21,851
27   Bosnia and Herzegovina 0.5% 51,209 19,772
28   Slovakia 0.5% 49,035 18,933
29   Estonia 0.5% 45,399 17,529
30 T Denmark 0.4% 42,947 16,582
31 T Netherlands 0.4% 41,543 16,040
32    Switzerland 0.4% 41,291 15,943
33   Moldova 0.3% 33,847 13,068
34   Belgium 0.3% 30,528 11,787
35   Albania 0.3% 28,748 11,100
36   North Macedonia 0.3% 25,713 9,928
37 K Turkey 0.2% 23,757 9,173
38   Slovenia 0.2% 20,273 7,827
39   Montenegro 0.1% 13,888 5,362
–   Kosovo 0.1% 10,910 4,210
40 K Azerbaijan 0.07% 6,960 2,690
–   Transnistria 4,163 1,607
41 K Georgia 0.03% 3,040 1,170
42   Luxembourg 0.03% 2,586 998
–   Åland (Finland) 0.02% 1,583 611
–   Faroe Islands (Denmark) 0.01% 1,393 538
–   Isle of Man (UK) 0.006% 572 221
43   Andorra 0.005% 468 181
44   Malta 0.003% 315 122
45   Liechtenstein 0.002% 160 62
–   Jersey (UK) 0.001% 116 45
–   Guernsey (UK) 0.001% 78 30
46   San Marino 0.001% 61 24
–   Gibraltar (UK) 0% 7 2.7
47   Monaco 0% 2 0.77
48   Vatican City 0% 0.49 0.19
– C Abkhazia 8,664.59 3,345.42
– C South Ossetia 3,885 1,500
– C Akrotiri and Dhekelia (UK) 0% 254 98
49 C Armenia 0% 29,743 11,484
50 C Cyprus 0% 9,251 3,572
– C Greenland (Denmark) 0% 2,166,086 836,330

Definition

Europe and Asia are contiguous with each other; thus, the exact boundary between them is not clearly defined, and often follows historical, political, and cultural definitions, rather than geographical.

Map of Europe, showing one of the most commonly used continental boundaries

Legend:

Blue = Contiguous transcontinental countries
Green = Sometimes considered European but geographically outside Europe's boundaries

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