List of European countries by area

Below is a list of countries in Europe by area.[1] As a continent, Europe's total geographical area is about 10.18 million square kilometres.[2] Transcontinental countries are ranked according to the size of their European part only. The 14 countries marked with an asterisk (*) are transcontinental. Only sovereign states are considered. Inland water is included in area numbers.

Orthographic map of Europe

List of European countries by area
Country %
total		 Europe Area
(km2) (mi2)
1  Russia*39.7% 3,968,200 1,532,100 [lower-alpha 1]
2  Ukraine6.0% 603,500 233,000 [lower-alpha 2]
3  France*5.5% 551,500 212,900 [lower-alpha 3]
4  Spain*4.9% 498,511 192,476 [lower-alpha 4]
5  Sweden4.4% 438,574 169,334
6  Norway*3.8% 385,178 148,718 [lower-alpha 5]
7  Germany3.5% 357,581 138,063
8  Finland3.4% 336,884 130,072
9  Poland3.1% 312,679 120,726
10  Italy*3.0% 301,318 116,340 [lower-alpha 6]
11  United Kingdom*2.4% 244,376 94,354 [lower-alpha 7]
12  Romania2.4% 238,398 92,046
13  Belarus2.1% 207,600 80,200
14  Kazakhstan*1.5% 148,000 57,000 [lower-alpha 8]
15  Greece*1.3% 131,957 50,949 [lower-alpha 9]
16  Bulgaria1.1% 110,994 42,855
17  Iceland1.0% 103,000 40,000
18  Hungary0.9% 93,025 35,917
19  Portugal*0.9% 92,225 35,608 [lower-alpha 10]
20  Serbia0.9% 88,444 34,148 [lower-alpha 11]
21  Austria0.8% 83,878 32,385
22  Czechia0.8% 78,871 30,452
23  Ireland0.7% 69,825 26,960
24  Lithuania0.6% 65,286 25,207
25  Latvia0.6% 64,594 24,940
26  Croatia0.6% 56,594 21,851
27  Bosnia and Herzegovina0.5% 51,209 19,772
28  Slovakia0.5% 49,035 18,933
29  Estonia0.4% 45,399 17,529
30  Denmark*0.4% 44,493 17,179 [lower-alpha 12]
31  Switzerland0.4% 41,291 15,943
32  Netherlands*0.4% 41,543 16,040 [lower-alpha 13]
33  Moldova0.3% 33,847 13,068
34  Belgium0.3% 30,528 11,787
35  Albania0.3% 28,748 11,100
36  North Macedonia0.3% 25,713 9,928
37  Turkey*0.2% 23,764 9,175 [lower-alpha 14]
38  Slovenia0.2% 20,273 7,827
39  Montenegro0.1% 13,888 5,362
 Kosovo 10,887 4,203 [6]
40  Azerbaijan*0.1% 6,960 2,690 [lower-alpha 15]
41  Georgia*0.02% 2,642 1,020 [lower-alpha 16]
42  Luxembourg0.03% 2,586 998
43  Andorra0.005% 468 181
44  Malta0.003% 315 122
45  Liechtenstein0.002% 160 62
46  San Marino0.001% 61 24
47  Monaco0% 2 0.77
48  Vatican City0% 0.49 0.19 [lower-alpha 17]
49  Armenia0% 0 0 [lower-alpha 18]
50  Cyprus0% 0 0 [lower-alpha 19]
Total 100% 9,725,367 3,754,985

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[lower-alpha 20]

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

See also

Notes
  1. 17,098,246 km2 (6,601,670 sq mi) when including North Asia.[3]
  2. Including the disputed territories of the Republic of Crimea and the city of Sevastopol.
  3. 672,051 km2 (259,480 sq mi) when including overseas regions, and territories.
  4. 505,990 km2 (195,360 sq mi) when including the Canary Islands, Ceuta and Melilla.[4]
  5. Including Svalbard and Jan Mayen.[5] If they are excluded, continental Norway is 323,779 km2 (125,012 sq mi) in area.
  6. 301,338 km2 (116,347 sq mi) when including African islands of Lampedusa and Lampione.
  7. Not including British Overseas Territories or Crown Dependencies.
  8. Territory west of the Ural River is counted as within Europe; 2,724,902 km2 (1,052,091 sq mi) when including Asian territory.
  9. Including island land territory. 110,496 km2 (42,663 sq mi) is mainland territory and 21,461 km2 (8,286 sq mi) is island territory.
  10. 91,568 km2 (35,355 sq mi) when including the Azorean Islands and the Madeiran Archipelago.
  11. Including Kosovo and Metohija.
  12. Including the Faroe Islands. 2,210,579 km2 (853,509 sq mi) when including Greenland. Continental Denmark is 43,094 km2 (16,639 sq mi) in area.
  13. Excluding Caribbean Netherlands, Aruba, Curaçao and Sint Maarten. 42,531 km2 (16,421 sq mi) when combined into the Kingdom of the Netherlands.
  14. 783,562 km2 (302,535 sq mi) when including Asian territory.
  15. 86,600 km2 (33,400 sq mi) when including Asian territory.
  16. 69,700 km2 (26,900 sq mi) when including Asian territory.
  17. The De Agostini Atlas Calendar listed the area of Vatican City as 44 ha in its 1930 edition[7] but corrected it to 49 ha in its 1945–1946 edition.[8] The figure of 44 ha is still widely cited by many sources despite its inaccuracy.
  18. 29,743 km2 (11,484 sq mi) when including Asian territory. Considered culturally but not geographically part of Europe.
  19. 9,251 km2 (3,572 sq mi) when including Asian territory. Considered culturally but not geographically part of Europe.
  20. The map shows one of the most commonly accepted delineations of the geographical boundaries of Europe, as used by National Geographic and Encyclopædia Britannica. Whether countries are considered in Europe or Asia can vary in sources, for example in the classification of the CIA World Factbook or that of the BBC. Certain countries in Europe, such as France, have territories lying geographically outside Europe, but which are nevertheless considered integral parts of that country.

References
  1. Source unless otherwise specified: Demographic Yearbook – Table 3: Population by sex, rate of population increase, surface area and density (PDF) (Report). United Nations Statistics Division. 2021. Retrieved 21 May 2023. Entries in this table giving figures other than the figures given in this source are explained in the associated Note.
  2. "Map and Details of all 7 Continents". WorldAtlas. Retrieved 4 May 2019.
  3. "The World Factbook - Central Asia - Russia". CIA World Factbook. Central Intelligence Agency. Retrieved 3 May 2019.
  4. "Entorno físico y medio ambiente" (PDF). Instituto Nacional de Estadística. p. 10. Retrieved 4 August 2019.
  5. "Updated land cover figures". ssb.no. Retrieved 2015-11-21.
  6. "Kosovo profile". BBC. 28 Jun 2023. Retrieved 12 Sep 2023.
  7. De Agostini Atlas Calendar Archived 3 June 2020 at the Wayback Machine, 1930, p. 99. (in Italian)
  8. De Agostini Atlas Calendar Archived 3 June 2020 at the Wayback Machine, 1945–1946, p. 128. (in Italian)
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