List of first-level administrative divisions by area

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This is a list of first-level administrative divisions by area (including surface water) in square kilometres.

List of first-level administrative divisions by area

First-level administrative divisions by area
Rank Subnational flag[note 1] Coat of arms/seal[note 2] Common name[note 3] Capital Largest city Sovereign state Area Population Rank within sovereign state Population density Map
1 Sakha Yakutsk  Russia 3,083,523 km2 996,243[1] 1st 0.32/km2
2 Western Australia Perth  Australia 2,642,753 km2 2,685,165[2] 1st 1/km2
3 Krasnoyarsk Krai Krasnoyarsk  Russia 2,366,797 km2[note 4] 2,846,000[1] 2nd 1.2/km2
4 Greenland Nuuk Danish Realm 2,166,086 km2 56,081[3] 1st 0.028/km2
5 Nunavut Iqaluit  Canada 2,038,722 km2 39,589[4] 1st 0.02/km2
6 Queensland Brisbane  Australia 1,851,736 km2 5,240,520[2] 2nd 2.83/km2
7 Alaska Juneau Anchorage  United States 1,717,854 km2 733,391[5] 1st 0.42/km2
8 N/A N/A Xinjiang Ürümqi  China 1,664,897 km2 25,852,345[6] 1st 15.5/km2
9 Amazonas Manaus  Brazil 1,559,167 km2 4,269,995[7] 1st 2.73/km2
10 Quebec Quebec City Montreal  Canada 1,542,056 km2 8,631,147[4] 2nd 6.23/km2
11 Northern Territory Darwin  Australia 1,419,630 km2 245,865[2] 3rd 0.17/km2
12 Northwest Territories Yellowknife  Canada 1,346,106 km2[note 5] 45,515[4] 3rd 0.03/km2
13 Pará Belém  Brazil 1,245,870 km2 8,777,124[8] 2nd 7.04/km2
14 N/A N/A Tibet Lhasa  China 1,228,400 km2 3,648,100[6] 2nd 2.96/km2
15 N/A N/A Inner Mongolia Hohhot Baotou  China 1,183,000 km2 24,049,155[6] 3rd 20.3/km2
16 Ontario Toronto  Canada 1,076,395 km2 14,915,270[4] 4th 15.94/km2
17 South Australia Adelaide  Australia 1,044,353 km2 1,772,787[2] 4th 1.7/km2
18 British Columbia Victoria Vancouver  Canada 944,735 km2 5,249,635[4] 5th 5.41/km2
19 Mato Grosso Cuiabá  Brazil 903,207 km2 3,567,234[9] 3rd 3.94/km2
20 New South Wales Sydney  Australia 809,952 km2 8,186,789[2] 5th 10.1/km2
21 Khabarovsk Krai Khabarovsk  Russia 787,633 km2 1,283,992[1] 3rd 1.63/km2
22 Irkutsk Oblast Irkutsk  Russia 774,876 km2 2,344,331[1] 4th 3.03/km2
23 Yamalia Salekhard Noyabrsk  Russia 769,250 km2[note 6] 511,874[1] 5th 0.67/km2
24 Chukotka Anadyr  Russia 721,481 km2 47,514[1] 6th 0.07/km2
25 N/A N/A Qinghai Xining  China 721,000 km2 5,923,957[6] 4th 8.2/km2
26 Texas Austin Houston  United States 696,241 km2 29,145,505[5] 2nd 41.86/km2
27 N/A N/A Eastern Dammam  Saudi Arabia 672,522 km2 5,148,598[10] 1st 7.65/km2
28 N/A N/A Agadez Region Agadez  Niger 667,799 km2 566,447 1st 0.85/km2
29 Alberta Edmonton Calgary  Canada 661,848 km2 4,464,170[4] 6th 6.66/km2
30 Saskatchewan Regina Saskatoon  Canada 651,900 km2 1,180,867[4] 7th 1.91/km2
31 Manitoba Winnipeg  Canada 649,950 km2 1,386,333[4] 8th 2.13/km2
32 Minas Gerais Belo Horizonte  Brazil 586,514 km2 21,411,923[11] 4th 36.5/km2
33 Bahia Salvador  Brazil 564,760 km2 14,985,284[12] 5th 26.5/km2
34 Khantia-Mansia Khanty-Mansiysk Surgut  Russia 534,801 km2[note 6] 1,729,472[1] 7th 3.23/km2
35 N/A N/A Sichuan Chengdu  China 485,000 km2 83,674,866[6] 5th 172.5/km2
36 Yukon Whitehorse  Canada 482,443 km2 43,095[4] 9th 0.08/km2
37 N/A N/A Kufra Al Jawf  Libya 479,160 km2[note 7] 50,104[note 8] 1st 0.1/km2
38 Kamchatka Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky  Russia 464,275 km2 289,033[1] 8th 0.62/km2
39 Magadan Oblast Magadan  Russia 462,464 km2 134,568[1] 9th 0.29/km2
40 N/A N/A Heilongjiang Harbin  China 460,000 km2 31,850,088[6] 6th 69.2/km2
41 N/A N/A Gansu Lanzhou  China 454,000 km2 25,019,831[6] 7th 55.1/km2
42 N/A N/A Taoudénit Region Taoudénit  Mali 440,176 km2 18,160[note 9] 1st 0.041/km2
43 New Valley Kharga  Egypt 440,098 km2 256,088[13][14] 1st 0.58/km2
44 Zabaykalsky Chita  Russia 431,892 km2 992,202[1] 10th 2.30/km2
45 California Sacramento Los Angeles  United States 423,967 km2 39,538,223[5] 3rd 93.2/km2
46 Komi Syktyvkar  Russia 416,774 km2 725,969[1] 11th 1.74/km2
47 Arkhangelsk Oblast Arkhangelsk  Russia 413,103 km2[note 10] 964,131[1] 12th 2.33/km2
48 N/A N/A Riyadh Province Riyadh  Saudi Arabia 412,000 km2 8,216,284 2nd 2.76/km2
49 N/A N/A Yunnan Kunming  China 394,000 km2 47,209,277 8th 123.20/km2
50 Montana Helena Billings  United States 380,838 km2 1,085,407 4th 2.73/km2
51 Newfoundland
and Labrador
St. John's  Canada 373,872 km2 510,550 10th 1.37/km2
52 Northern Cape Kimberley Upington  South Africa 372,889 km2 1,292,786 1st 3.1/km2
53 Santa Cruz Santa Cruz de la Sierra  Bolivia 370,621 km2 3,370,100 1st 9.1/km2
54 Loreto Iquitos  Peru 368,851 km2 1,027,559 1st 2.8/km2
55 Amur Blagoveshchensk  Russia 363,700 km2 756,272[1] 13th 2.09/km2
56 Hadramout Mukalla  Yemen 359,944 km2 2,255,000 1st 6.26/km2
57 Mato Grosso do Sul Campo Grande  Brazil 357,124 km2 2,778,986 6th 6.9/km2
58 Oromia Addis Ababa  Ethiopia 353,690 km2 35,467,001 1st 66.5/km2
59 Buryatia Ulan-Ude  Russia 351,334 km2 975,247[1] 14th 2.78/km2
60 N/A N/A Murzuq District Murzuk  Libya 349,790 km2 78,621 2nd 0.22/km2
61 N/A Northern Dongola  Sudan 348,765 km2 833,743 1st 2.59/km2
62 Balochistan Quetta  Pakistan 347,190 km2 12,335,129 1st 36/km2
63 Rajasthan Jaipur  India 342,239 km2 68,548,437 1st 200/km2
64 Goiás Goiânia  Brazil 340,257 km2 7,018,354 7th 18/km2
65 N/A N/A Tamanrasset Province Tamanrasset  Algeria 336,839 km2[note 7] 204,540[note 11][15] 1st 0.34/km2
66 Somali Jijiga  Ethiopia 328,068 km2 11,748,998 2nd 31/km2
67 Maranhão Sao Luís  Brazil 331,983 km2 7,075,181 8th 20/km2
68 Tomsk Oblast Tomsk  Russia 316,900 km2 1,051,998[1] 15th 3.35/km2
69 New Mexico Santa Fe Albuquerque  United States 314,915 km2 2,117,522 5th 17.2/km2
70 Madhya Pradesh Bhopal Indore  India 308,245 km2 72,626,809 2nd 240/km2
71 Maharashtra Mumbai  India 307,713 km2 112,374,333 3rd 370/km2
72 Buenos Aires La Plata  Argentina 307,571 km2 17,569,053 1st 57/km2
73 Aktobe Region Aktobe  Kazakhstan 300,629 km2 909,673 1st 3.0/km2
74 North Darfur Al-Fashir  Sudan 296,420 km2 1,583,179 2nd 5.0/km2
75 Arizona Phoenix  United States 295,234 km2 7,151,502 6th 57/km2
76 Nevada Carson City Las Vegas  United States 286,382 km2 3,104,614 7th 26.8/km2
77 Rio Grande do Sul Porto Alegre  Brazil 281,707 km2 11,422,973 9th 41/km2
78 Tocantins Palmas  Brazil 277,620 km2 1,383,445 10th 5/km2
79 N/A N/A Borkou Faya-Largeau  Chad 271,513 km2 97,251 1st 0.4/km2
80 Colorado Denver  United States 269,837 km2 5,839,926 8th 21.72/km2
81 N/A N/A Adrar Province Adrar  Algeria 261,258 km2 402,197[note 11] 2nd 0.95/km2
82 Oregon Salem Portland  United States 254,806 km2 4,246,155 9th 15/km2
83 Wyoming Cheyenne  United States 253,600 km2 576,851 10th 2.31/km2
84 N/A N/A Tiris Zemmour Zouérat  Mauritania 252,900 km2 53,261 1st 0.21/km2
85 Piauí Teresina  Brazil 251,578 km2 3,289,290 11th 13.07/km2
86 Michigan Lansing Detroit  United States 250,493 km2 10,077,331 11th 67.1/km2
87 São Paulo State São Paulo  Brazil 248,219 km2 46,649,132 12th 183.46/km2
88 Chihuahua Chihuahua City  Mexico 247,460 km2 3,741,869 1st 15/km2
89 Santa Cruz Río Gallegos  Argentina 243,943 km2 333,473 2nd 1.4/km2
90 Bolívar Ciudad Bolívar  Venezuela 242,801 km2 1,720,000 1st 7.08/km2
91 Uttar Pradesh Lucknow  India 240,928 km2 241,066,874 4th 1,001/km2
92 Karaganda Region Karaganda  Kazakhstan 239,045 km2 1,378,863[16] 2nd 3.2/km2
93 Rondônia Porto Velho  Brazil 237,765 km2 1,562,409 13th 6.6/km2
94 Victoria Melbourne  Australia 237,657 km2 6,656,300 6th 29/km2
95 N/A N/A Guangxi Nanning  China 237,600 km2 50,126,804 9th 210/km2
96 N/A N/A Adrar Atar  Mauritania 235,000 km2 62,658 2nd 0.27/km2
97 Kyzylorda Region Kyzylorda  Kazakhstan 226,019 km2 823,251 3rd 3.6/km2
98 Minnesota Saint Paul Minneapolis  United States 225,163 km2 5,717,184 12th 26.6/km2
99 Chubut Rawson  Argentina 224,686 km2 603,120 3rd 2.7/km2
100 Roraima Boa Vista  Brazil 224,300 km2 652,713 14th 2.91/km2
101 N/A N/A Moxico Luena  Angola 223,023 km2 758,568 1st 3.4/km2
102 Utah Salt Lake City  United States 219,887 km2 3,271,616 13th 14.12/km2
103 N/A Red Sea State Port Sudan  Sudan 218,887 km2 1,482,053 3rd 6.6/km2
104 Idaho Boise  United States 216,443 km2 1,975,000 14th 8.33/km2
105 Beni Trinidad  Bolivia 213,564 km2 421,196 2nd 2.0/km2
106 Kansas Topeka Wichita  United States 213,100 km2 2,940,865 15th 13.5/km2
107 Puntland Garoowe Bosaso  Somalia 212,510 km2 6,334,633 1st 29.8/km2
108 Matrouh Mersa Matruh  Egypt 212,112 km² 538,546 2nd 2.5/km²
109 N/A N/A Hunan Changsha  China 211,842 km2 66,444,864 10th 320/km2
110 N/A N/A Shaanxi Xi'an  China 205,624 km2 39,530,000 11th 190/km2
111 Punjab Lahore  Pakistan 205,344 km2 127,474,000 2nd 620/km2
112 Red Sea Governorate Hurghada  Egypt 203,685 km2 400,069 3rd 2.0/km2
113 Río Negro Viedma  Argentina 203,013 km2 762,067 4th 3.8/km2
114 Nebraska Lincoln Omaha  United States 200,356 km2 1,961,504 16th 9.62/km2
115 South Dakota Pierre Sioux Falls  United States 199,729 km2 909,824 17th 4.44/km2
116 N/A Tshopo Kisangani  Congo-Kinshasa 199,567 km2 2,614,630 1st 13/km2
117 Paraná Curitiba  Brazil 199,298 km2 11,597,484 15th 58/km2
118 N/A N/A Cuando Cubango Menongue  Angola 199,049 km2 534,002 2nd 2.7/km2
119 N/A N/A Illizi Province Illizi  Algeria 198,815 km2 52,333 3rd 0.18/km2
120 Gujarat Gandhinagar Ahmedabad  India 196,024 km2 60,439,692 5th 308/km2
121 N/A Kostanay Region Kostanay  Kazakhstan 196,001 km2 835,686 4th 4.3/km2
122 N/A N/A Ouargla Province Ouargla  Algeria 194,552 km2 552,539 4th 2.6/km2
123 Sverdlovsk Yekaterinburg  Russia 194,226 km2 4,239,311 16th 21.82/km2
124 Karnataka Bangalore  India 191,791 km2 61,130,704 6th 320/km2
125 N/A Ulytau Jezkazgan  Kazakhstan 188,900 km2 221,014 5th 1.17/km2
126 N/A N/A Hebei Shijiazhuang  China 188,800 km2 74,610,235 12th 400/km2
127 N/A N/A Jilin Changchun  China 187,400 km2 24,073,453 13th 130/km2
128 N/A N/A Hubei Wuhan  China 185,900 km2 58,300,000 14th 310/km2
129 N/A N/A Abai Semey  Kazakhstan 185,500 km2 610,183 6th 3.29/km2
130 N/A North Kordofan El-Obeid  Sudan 185,302 km2 2,529,370 4th 13/km2
131 Washington Olympia Seattle  United States 184,827 km2 7,785,786 18th 39.6/km2
132 Amazonas Puerto Ayacucho  Venezuela 183,500 km2 146,480 2nd 1.25/km2
133 N/A N/A Kerman Province Kerman  Iran 183,285 km2 3,164,718 1st 17/km2
134 North Dakota Bismarck Fargo  United States 183,123 km2 779,261 19th 4.13/km2
135 N/A N/A Hodh Ech Chargui Néma  Mauritania 182,700 km2 430,668 3rd 2.4/km2
136 Oklahoma Oklahoma City  United States 181,038 km2 4,019,800 20th 21.30/km2
137 N/A Sistan and Baluchestan Zahedan  Iran 180,726 km2 2,775,014 2nd 15/km2
138 Missouri Jefferson City Kansas City  United States 180,560 km2 6,160,281 21st 34.1/km2
139 N/A N/A Guangdong Guangzhou  China 179,800 km2 126,012,510 15th 700/km2
140 Sonora Hermosillo  Mexico 179,355 km2 2,944,840 2nd 16/km2
141 Novosibirsk Oblast Novosibirsk  Russia 178,200 km2 2,794,315 17th 15.72/km2
142 Somaliland Hargeisa  Somalia
(de jure)
177,000 km2 5,741,086 2nd 28.27/km2
143 Nenets Naryan-Mar  Russia 176,700 km2[note 10] 41,454 18th 0.23/km2
144 N/A N/A Guizhou Guiyang  China 176,167 km2 38,562,148 16th 220/km2
145 Karelia Petrozavodsk  Russia 172,400 km2 527,821 19th 2.92/km2
146 Tuva Kyzyl  Russia 170,500 km2 337,299 20th 2.0/km2
147 Florida Tallahassee Jacksonville  United States 170,312 km2 22,244,823 22nd 160/km2
148 Altai Krai Barnaul  Russia 169,100 km2 2,131,019 21st 12.68/km2
149 Wisconsin Madison Milwaukee  United States 169,640 km2 5,893,718 23rd 42/km2
150 Eastern Cape Bhisho Gqeberha  South Africa 168,966 km2 6,562,053 2nd 39/km2
151 N/A N/A Jiangxi Nanchang  China 166,919 km2 45,188,635 17th 270/km2
152 Karakalpakstan Nukus  Uzbekistan 166,590 km2 1,923,734 1st 11.55/km2
153 Primorsky Vladivostok  Russia 165,900 km2 1,820,125 22nd 11.05/km2
154 N/A Mangystau Aktau  Kazakhstan 165,642 km2 745,909 7th 4.5/km2
155 N/A N/A Henan Zhengzhou  China 165,467 km2 99,365,519 18th 600/km2
156 Ömnögovi Dalanzadgad  Mongolia 165,380 km2 65,645 1st 0.40/km2
157 Córdoba Province Córdoba  Argentina 165,321 km2 3,978,984 5th 24/km2
158 Acre Rio Branco  Brazil 164,123 km2[17] 906,876[18] 16th 5.1/km2
159 N/A Andhra Pradesh Amaravati Visakhapatnam  India 162,970 km2 49,577,103 7th 304/km2
160 N/A N/A Karas Keetmanshoop  Namibia 161,514 km2 77,421 1st 0.48/km2
161 Perm Krai Perm  Russia 160,600 km2 2,508,239 23rd 15.65/km2
162 N/A N/A Tindouf Province Tindouf  Algeria 159,000 km2 49,149 5th 0.31/km2
163 N/A N/A Shandong Jinan Qingdao  China 157,100 km2 101,527,453 19th 650/km2
164 N/A N/A Diffa Region Diffa  Niger 156,906 km2 593,821 2nd 3.8/km2
165 N/A N/A Shanxi Taiyuan  China 156,000 km2 34,915,616 20th 220/km2
166 N/A Shan Taunggyi  Myanmar 155,801 km2 5,824,432 1st 37/km2
167 Odisha Bhubaneswar  India 155,707 km2 41,974,218 8th 269/km2
168 Salta Province Salta  Argentina 155,488 km2 1,440,672 6th 9.3/km2
169 Amhara Bahir Dar  Ethiopia 154,708 km2 21,134,988 3rd 136/km2
170 Georgia Atlanta  United States 153,909 km2 10,711,908 24th 71.5/km2
171 Central Kalimantan Palangka Raya  Indonesia 153,443 km2 2,741,075 1st 18/km2
172 N/A N/A Mecca Province Mecca Jeddah  Saudi Arabia 153,148 km2 8,557,766 3rd 56/km2
173 N/A N/A Medina Province Medina  Saudi Arabia 151,990 km² 2,132,679 4th 14/km²
174 N/A N/A South Khorasan Birjand  Iran 151,913 km2 768,898 3rd 5.1/km2
175 Coahuila Saltillo  Mexico 151,595 km2 3,146,771 3rd 21/km2
176 N/A N/A Kidal Region Kidal  Mali 151,450 km2 67,638 2nd 0.45/km2
177 N/A West Kazakhstan Oral  Kazakhstan 151,339 km2 683,327 8th 4.5/km2
178 Illinois Springfield Chicago  United States 149,997 km2 12,812,508 25th 89.4/km2
179 N/A N/A Najran Province Najran  Saudi Arabia 149,511 km² 505,652 5th 3.4/km²
180 Ceará Fortaleza  Brazil 148,894 km2[19] 9,240,580[20] 17th 62.06/km2
181 Mendoza Province Mendoza  Argentina 148,827 km2 2,014,533 7th 14/km2
182 N/A Bas-Uélé Buta  Congo-Kinshasa 148,331 km2 1,093,845 2nd 7.4/km2
183 N/A N/A Central Serowe  Botswana 147,730 km² 638,604 1st 4.3/km²
184 West Kalimantan Pontianak  Indonesia 147,307 km2 5,541,376 2nd 38/km2
185 N/A Akmola Kokshetau  Kazakhstan 146,219 km² 785,219 9th 5.4/km²
186 N/A N/A Tabuk Province Tabuk  Saudi Arabia 146,072 km² 910,030 6th 6.2/km²
187 N/A N/A Liaoning Shenyang  China 145,900 km2 42,591,407 21st 290/km2
188 Iowa Des Moines  United States 144,669 km2 3,190,369 26th 22.0/km2
189 Vologda Oblast Vologda  Russia 145,700 km2 1,128,580 25th 7.81/km2
190 N/A N/A Zinder Region Zinder  Niger 145,430 km² 3,539,764 3rd 24/km²
191 Murmansk Oblast Murmansk  Russia 144,900 km2 657,950 26th 4.54/km2
192 N/A Jambyl Taraz  Kazakhstan 144,264 km2 1,209,665 10th 8.4/km2
193 Tyumen Oblast Tyumen  Russia 143,520 km2 1,607,274 27th 10.04/km2
194 La Pampa Santa Rosa  Argentina 143,440 km² 366,022 8th 2.6/km²
195 Bashkortostan Ufa  Russia 142,947 km² 4,080,684 28th 28.55/km2
196 Dakhla-Oued
Ed-Dahab
Dakhla  Morocco
(de facto)
142,865 km² 142,955 1st 4.0/km²
197 Amapá Macapá  Brazil 142,829 km²[21] 877,613[22] 18th 6.14/km2
198 Govi-Altai Altai City  Mongolia 141,447 km2 57,440 2nd 0.41/km2
199 New York Albany New York City  United States 141,297 km2 20,215,751 27th 159/km2
200 Sindh Karachi  Pakistan 140,914 km² 47,886,051 3rd 339.82/km²
201 N/A N/A Anhui Hefei  China 140,200 km2 61,027,171 22nd 440/km2
202 N/A Laâyoune-Sakia
El Hamra
Laayoune  Morocco
(de facto)
140,018 km² 367,758 2nd 2.6/km²
203 Omsk Oblast Omsk  Russia 139,700 km2 1,831,881 29th 12.98/km2
204 North Carolina Raleigh Charlotte  United States 139,391 km2 10,698,973 28th 84.80/km2
205 N/A N/A Balkan Balkanabat  Turkmenistan 139,270 km2 553,500 1st 4.0/km2
206 Al Anbar Ramadi  Iraq 138,501 km2 1,771,656 1st 13/km2
207 Arkansas Little Rock  United States 137,732 km2 3,013,756 29th 21.8/km2
208 Santiago del Estero Province Santiago del Estero  Argentina 136,351 km² 1,054,028 9th 7.7/km²
209 N/A N/A Tibesti Bardai  Chad 135,896 km² 37,890 2nd 0.2/km²
210 Alabama Montgomery Huntsville  United States 135,765 km2 5,039,877 30th 38.4/km2
211 Louisiana Baton Rouge New Orleans  United States 135,382 km2 4,657,757 31st 41.3/km2
212 Chhattisgarh Raipur  India 135,192 km² 29,436,231 9th 220/km²
213 N/A Tanganyika Kalemie  Congo-Kinshasa 134,940 km² 3,062,000 3rd 23/km²
214 La Paz Department La Paz  Bolivia 133,985 km² 2,927,000 3rd 22/km²
215 Santa Fe Province Santa Fe Rosario  Argentina 133,007 km² 3,556,522 10th 27/km²
216 N/A Tshuapa Boende  Congo-Kinshasa 132,940 km² 1,316,855 4th 9.9/km²
217 N/A Maniema Kindu  Congo-Kinshasa 132,520 km² 2,049,300 5th 15/km²
218 N/A Haut-Katanga Lubumbashi  Congo-Kinshasa 132,425 km² 4,617,000 6th 35/km²
219 Magallanes Punta Arenas  Chile 132,291 km² 165,593 1st 1.3/km²
220 N/A N/A In Salah Province In Salah  Algeria 131,220 km² 50,392 6th 0.38/km²
221 N/A N/A Sipaliwini N/A Kwamalasamutu  Suriname 130,567 km² 37,065 1st 0.28/km²
222 England London  United Kingdom 130,279 km² 56,489,800 1st 434/km²
223 Tamil Nadu Chennai  India 130,058 km² 72,147,030 10th 550/km²
224 Free State Bloemfontein  South Africa 129,825 km² 2,921,611 3rd 22.5/km²
225 Western Cape Cape Town  South Africa 129,462 km² 7,212,142 4th 55.7/km²
226 N/A N/A Niassa Lichinga  Mozambique 129,056 km² 1,865,976 1st 14/km²
227 N/A Mai-Ndombe Inongo  Congo-Kinshasa 127,465 km² 1,768,327 7th 14/km²
228 East Kalimantan Samarinda  Indonesia 127,346 km² 3,859,783 3rd 30/km²
229 South Darfur Nyala  Sudan 127,300 km² 2,890,348 5th 22.7/km²
230 N/A Western Mongu  Zambia 126,386 km² 991,500 1st 7.8/km²
231 Antofagasta Region Antofagasta  Chile 126,049 km² 599,335 2nd 4.8/km²
232 N/A North-Western Solwezi  Zambia 125,826 km² 833,818 2nd 6.6/km²
233 Limpopo Polokwane  South Africa 125,754 km² 5,941,439 5th 47.2/km²
234 Mississippi Jackson  United States 125,443 km² 2,963,914 32nd 24.5/km²
235 N/A Pavlodar Region Pavlodar  Kazakhstan 124,800 km² 756,511 11th 6.1/km²
236 Sarawak Kuching  Malaysia 124,450 km² 2,453,677 1st 20/km²
237 Orenburg Oblast Orenburg  Russia 124,000 km² 1,841,601 30th 14.89/km²
238 Dornod Choibalsan  Mongolia 123,597 km² 82,054 3rd 0.66/km²
239 Durango Victoria de Durango  Mexico 123,317 km² 1,832,650 4th 15/km²
240 N/A N/A Fars Shiraz  Iran 122,608 km2 4,851,274 4th 40/km²
241 N/A River Nile Ad-Damir  Sudan 122,123 km² 1,472,257 6th 13/km²
242 N/A N/A Fujian Fuzhou Quanzhou  China 121,400 km² 41,540,086 23rd 340/km²
243 N/A Lualaba Kolwezi  Congo-Kinshasa 121,308 km² 1,677,288 8th 14/km²
244 Kirov Oblast Kirov  Russia 120,800 km² 1,138,200 31st 9.46/km²
245 N/A N/A Bordj Baji Mokhtar Province Bordj Badji Mokhtar  Algeria 120,026 km² 16,437 7th 0.14/km²
246 Hirshabelle Jowhar Beledweyne  Somalia 120,000 km² 3,771,638 3rd 31/km²
247 N/A N/A Kayes Region Kayes  Mali 119,743 km² 1,996,812 3rd 17/km²
248 Pennsylvania Harrisburg Philadelphia  United States 119,283 km² 13,002,700 33th 112/km²
249 N/A N/A Razavi Khorasan Mashhad  Iran 118,884 km² 6,444,000 5th 54.12/km²
250 N/A Atyrau Region Atyrau  Kazakhstan 118,631 km² 681,241 12th 5.7/km²
251 N/A Jetisu Taldykorgan  Kazakhstan 118,500 km² 650,000 13th 5.48/km²
252 Potosí Department Potosí  Bolivia 118,218 km² 901,555 4th 6.97/km²
253 N/A N/A Ghanzi District Ghanzi  Botswana 117,910 km² 56,555 2nd 1.3/km²
254 South Papua Salor  Indonesia 117,849 km² 522,215 4th 4.4/km²
255 N/A N/A Ennedi-Ouest Fada  Chad 117,686 km² 59,744 3rd 0.7/km²
256 N/A N/A Jufra Hun  Libya 117,410 km² 52,342 3rd 0.45/km²
257 Turkistan Region Turkistan  Kazakhstan 117,249 km² 2,685,009 14th 23km²
258 Ohio Columbus  United States 116,096 km² 11,780,017 34th 109/km²
259 Bayankhongor Province Bayankhongor  Mongolia 115,977 km² 87,243 4th 0.75/km²
260 N/A N/A Kunene Opuwo  Namibia 115,260 km² 86,856 2nd 0.8/km²
261 N/A N/A Tahoua Region Tahoua  Niger 113,371 km² 4,692,990 4th 26/km²
262 Volgograd Oblast Volgograd  Russia 113,900 km² 2,468,877 31nd 21.87/km²
263 Telangana Hyderabad  India 112,077 km² 35,193,978 11th 312/km²
264 N/A N/A Northern Borders Arar  Saudi Arabia 111,797 365,231 7th 3.4/km2
265 N/A N/A Navoiy Region Navoiy  Uzbekistan 111,095 km² 1,033,857 2nd 9.3/km²
266 Virginia Richmond Virginia Beach  United States 110,785 km² 8,683,619 35th 84.7/km²
267 N/A Central Kabwe  Zambia 110,450 km² 1,743,999 3rd 16/km²
268 Jubaland Bu'ale Kismayo  Somalia 110,293 km² 1,360,633 4th 12/km²
269 N/A N/A Hardap Mariental  Namibia 109,781 km² 79,507 3rd 0.7/km²
270 Amazonas Leticia  Colombia 109,665 km² 76,589 1st 0.70/km²
271 Dornogovi Sainshand  Mongolia 109,472 km² 68,192 5th 0.62/km²
272 Tennessee Nashville  United States 109,247 km² 6,910,840 36th 63.3/km²
273 N/A N/A North-West Maun  Botswana 109,130 km² 198,436 3rd 1.3/km²
274 N/A N/A East Bertoua  Cameroon 109,002 km² 835,642 1st 7.7/km²
275 Aysén Coyhaique  Chile 108,494 km² 102,317 3rd 0.94/km²
276 N/A N/A Haut-Lomami Kamina  Congo-Kinshasa 108,204 km² 3,444,000 9th 23/km²
277 Isfahan Province Isfahan  Iran 107,029 km² 5,136,000 6th 47.85/km²
278 N/A N/A Al Wahat Ajdabiya  Libya 105,523 km² 164,718 4th 1.56/km²
279 N/A N/A Otjozondjupa Otjiwarongo  Namibia 105,460 km² 143,903 4th 1.4/km²
280 N/A N/A Kgalagadi Tsabong  Botswana 105,200 km² 58,857 4th 0.5/km²
281 Almaty Region[note 12] Qonayev  Kazakhstan 105,100 km² 2,059,200 15th 9.2/km²
282 North West Mafikeng Rustenburg  South Africa 125,754 km² 5,941,439 6th 47.2/km²
283 Kentucky Frankfort Louisville  United States 104,656 km² 4,509,342 37th 44/km²
284 N/A Sankuru Lusambo  Congo-Kinshasa 104,331 km² 2,417,000 10th 13/km²
285 N/A N/A Équateur Mbandaka  Congo-Kinshasa 103,902 km² 1,712,000 11th 16/km²
286 N/A N/A Ḥa'il Province Ḥaʼil  Saudi Arabia 103,887 km² 699,774 8th 6.7/km²
287 N/A N/A Zambezia Quelimane  Mozambique 103,478 km² 5,110,787 2nd 49/km²
288 Catamarca San Fernando del
Valle de Catamarca
 Argentina 102,602 km² 429,556 11th 4.18/km²
289 N/A N/A Lunda Norte Dundo  Angola 102,783 km² 862,566 3rd 8.3/km²
290 N/A N/A Jiangsu Nanjing Suzhou  China 102,600 km² 84,748,016 24th 830/km²
291 Ucayali Pucallpa  Peru 101,831 km² 415,000 2nd 4.0/km²
292 N/A N/A Zhejiang Hangzhou  China 101,800 km² 64,567,588 25th 630/km²
293 Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Peshawar  Pakistan 101,741 km² 35,525,047 4th 349.17/km²
294 N/A N/A Béni Abbès Province Béni Abbès  Algeria 101,350 km² 50,163 8th 0.49/km²
295 Rostov Rostov-on-Don  Russia 100,800 km² 4,163,708 32nd 41.24/km²
296 Khövsgöl Mörön  Mongolia 100,628 km² 132,146 6th 1.3/km²
297 Galmudug Dusmareb Adado  Somalia 100,370 km² 3,800,000 5th 38/km²
298 Lapland Rovaniemi  Finland 100,366 km² 177,161 1st 1.8/km²
299 Vichada Puerto Carreño  Colombia 100,242 km² 107,808 2nd 1.1/km²
300 N/A N/A Al-Jawf Sakakah  Saudi Arabia 100,212 km² 508,475 9th 4.39/km²
301 Saratov Oblast Saratov  Russia 100,200 km² 2,404,198 33th 23.75/km²
302 Chaco Resistencia  Argentina 99,633 km² 1,142,963 12th 11.47/km²
303 N/A N/A Dhofar Salalah  Oman 99,300 km² 408,419 1st 4.1/km²
304 Unofficial N/A Eastern Chipata  Zambia 98,877 km² 2,454,588 4th 25/km²
305 South West Barawa Baidoa  Somalia 98,863 km² 4,387,355 6th 44/km²
306 N/A Turkana Lodwar  Kenya 98,597 km² 926,976 1st 9.6/km²
307 N/A N/A Tete Province Tete  Mozambique 98,417 km² 2,648,941 3rd 27/km²
308 N/A N/A Tagant Tidjikja  Mauritania 98,340 km² 80,962 4th 0.85/km²
309 Norrbotten Luleå  Sweden 98,244 km² 251,080 1st 2.6/km²
310 N/A Western Daru  Papua New Guinea 98,189 km² 201,351 1st 2.1/km²
311 Pernambuco Recife  Brazil 98,067 km²[23] 9,674,793[24] 19th 89.63/km²[25]
312 N/A North Kazakhstan Petropavl  Kazakhstan 97,993 km² 539,111 16th 5.5/km²
313 N/A East Kazakhstan Oskemen  Kazakhstan 97,700 km² 1,369,597 17th 4.8/km²
314 N/A N/A Malanje Province Malanje  Angola 97,602 km² 986,363 4th 10/km²
315 N/A N/A Semnan Province Semnan  Iran 97,491 km² 715,000 7th 7.20/km²
316 N/A N/A Ahal Arkadag  Turkmenistan 97,260 km² 785,800 2nd 9.7/km²
317 N/A N/A Tillabéri Region Tillabéri  Niger 97,251 km² 3,839,210 5th 30/km²
318 N/A N/A Wadi al Shatii Brak  Libya 97,160 km² 78,532 5th 0.81/km²
319 Santa Catarina Florianópolis Joinville  Brazil 95,730 km²[26] 7,338,473[27] 20th 81.08/km²
320 N/A Kasaï Tshikapa  Congo-Kinshasa 95,631 km² 3,165,000 12th 33/km²
321 Kemerovo Oblast Kemerovo  Russia 95,500 km² 2,567,990 34th 26.83/km²
322 KwaZulu-Natal Pietermaritzburg Durban  South Africa 94,361 km² 11,538,325 7th 122.3/km²
323 Indiana Indianapolis  United States 94,321 km² 6,785,528 38th 73.1/km²
324 Castile and León Valladolid  Spain 94,222 km² 2,447,519 1st 26/km²
325 Bihar Patna  India 94,163 km² 104,099,452 12th 1,102/km²
326 Neuquén Province Neuquén  Argentina 94,078 km² 726,590 13th 7.72/km²
327 Oaxaca Oaxaca City  Mexico 93,757 km² 4,096,000 5th 44/km²
328 N/A N/A Batha Ati  Chad 93,732 km² 726,340 4th 0.7/km²
329 N/A Sagaing Monywa  Myanmar 93,704 km² 5,325,347 2nd 57/km²
330 N/A N/A Lebap Türkmenabat  Turkmenistan 93,700 km² 1,160,300 3rd 14/km²
331 Altai Republic Gorno-Altaysk  Russia 92,903 km² 210,797 35th 2.27/km²
332 Boquerón Filadelfia  Paraguay 91,669 km² 68,080 1st 0.74/km²
333 Maine Augusta Portland  United States 91,646 km² 1,362,359 39th 16.9/km²
334 Western Bahr
el Ghazal
Wau  South Sudan 91,079 km² 333,431 1st 3.7/km²
335 Tasmania Hobart  Australia 90,758 km² 571,165 7th 8.3/km²
336 N/A Oriental Oujda  Morocco 90,127 km² 2,314,346 3rd 80/km²
337 N/A N/A Koulikoro Region Koulikoro  Mali 90,120 km² 2,418,305 4th 27/km²
338 N/A N/A Kwango Kenge  Congo-Kinshasa 89,974 km² 2,416,000 13th 22/km²
339 Riau Pekanbaru  Indonesia 89,935 km² 6,614,384 5th 74/km²
340 N/A Haut-Uélé Isiro  Congo-Kinshasa 89,683 km² 2,046,000 14th 21/km²
341 La Rioja Province La Rioja  Argentina 89,680 km² 384,607 14th 4.3/km²
342 San Juan Province San Juan  Argentina 89,651 km² 818,234 15th 9.1/km²
343 N/A N/A Gao Region Gao  Mali 89,532 km² 544,120 5th 6.1/km²
344 N/A N/A Cunene Ondjiva  Angola 89,342 km² 990,087 5th 9.5/km²
345 N/A Kachin Myitkyina  Myanmar 89,041 km² 1,689,441 3rd 19/km²
346 Caquetá Florencia  Colombia 88,965 km² 401,849 3rd 4.5/km²
347 N/A Drâa-Tafilalet Errachidia  Morocco 88,836 km² 1,635,008 4th 18/km²
348 West Bengal Kolkata  India 88,752 km² 91,276,115 13th 1,029/km²
349 Corrientes Province Corrientes  Argentina 88,199 km² 1,197,553 16th 14/km²
350 N/A N/A In Guezzam Province In Guezzam  Algeria 88,126 km² 11,202 9th 0.13/km²
351 Chelyabinsk Oblast Chelyabinsk  Russia 87,900 km² 3,406,371 36th 38.48/km²
352 Andalusia Seville  Spain 87,268 km² 8,464,411 2nd 96/km²
353 N/A N/A Mary Region Mary  Turkmenistan 87,200 km² 1,287,700 4th 17/km²
354 Sakhalin Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk  Russia 87,100 km² 459,985 37th 5.28/km²
355 South Sumatra Palembang  Indonesia 86,772 km² 8,657,000 6th 100/km²
356 N/A N/A Haute-Kotto Bria  Central African Republic 86,650 km² 90,316 1st 1.0/km²
357 N/A N/A Djanet Province Djanet  Algeria 86,185 km² 17,618 10th 0.2/km²
358 Meta Villavicencio  Colombia 85,635 km² 1,052,000 4th 12.14/km²
359 Madre de Dios Puerto Maldonado  Peru 85,301 km² 104,000 3rd 1.1/km²
360 N/A N/A Omaheke Gobabis  Namibia 84,981 km² 71,233 5th 0.8/km²
361 Leningrad Gatchina  Russia 84,500 km² 2,027,068 38th 24.16/km²
362 Tver Oblast Tver  Russia 84,100 km² 1,210,692 39th 14.38/km²
363 Nouvelle-Aquitaine Bordeaux  France 84,036 km² 6,033,952 1st 72/km²
364 N/A N/A Butnan Tobruk  Libya 83,860 km² 195,088 6th 1.9/km²
365 [note 13] French Guiana Cayenne  France 83,846 km² 301,099 2nd 3.6/km²
366 Arunachal Pradesh Itanagar  India 83,743 km² 1,383,727 14th 17/km²
367 Hokkaido Sapporo  Japan 83,423 km² 5,281,297 1st 63/km²
368 South Carolina Columbia Charleston  United States 82,932 km² 5,282,634 40th 67.74/km²
369 Papua Jayapura  Indonesia 82,681 km² 1,035,000 7th 13/km²
370 N/A N/A Cabo Delgado Pemba  Mozambique 82,625 km² 2,320,261 4th 28/km²
371 Zavkhan Uliastai  Mongolia 82,455 km² 72,104 7th 0.87/km²
372 N/A Chongqing Yuzhong Wanzhou  China 82,403 km² 32,054,159 26th 309/km²
373 N/A Alto Paraguay Fuerte Olimpo  Paraguay 82,349 km² 15,008 2nd 0.18/km²
374 Sükhbaatar Baruun-Urt  Mongolia 82,287 km² 61,323 8th 0.75/km²
375 N/A N/A Ennedi-Est Amdjarass  Chad 81,696 km² 159,560 5th 1.95/km²
376 N/A N/A Ménaka Region Ménaka  Mali 81,040 km² 54,456 6th 0.67/km²
377 Jonglei Bor  South Sudan 80,926 km² 1,873,176 2nd 23.14/km²
378 Khentii Öndörkhaan  Mongolia 80,325 km² 76,019 9th 0.95/km²
379 Tamaulipas Ciudad Victoria Reynosa  Mexico 80,249 km² 3,527,735 6th 44/km²

Summary tables

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 17
400,000–499,999 14
300,000–399,999 24
250,000–299,999 13
200,000–249,999 28
150,000–199,999 64
100,000–149,999 124
80,000–99,999 79
Total 380
Country Number of subdivisions
United States 40
Russia 39
China 26
Brazil 20
Kazakhstan 17
Argentina 16
Congo-Kinshasa and India 14
Algeria and Canada 10
Mongolia and Saudi Arabia 9
Australia, Indonesia, Iran and South Africa 7
Libya, Mali, Mexico, Somalia and Sudan 6
Angola, Chad, Namibia and Niger 5
Botswana, Colombia, Bolivia, Mauritania, Morocco, Mozambique, Pakistan, Turkmenistan and Zambia 4
Chile, Egypt, Ethiopia, Myanmar and Peru 3
France, Paraguay, South Sudan, Spain, Uzbekistan, Venezuela and Yemen 2
Cameroon, Central African Republic, Danish Realm, Finland, Iraq, Japan, Kenya,
Malaysia, Oman, Papua New Guinea, Suriname, Sweden and United Kingdom
1
Total 380

See also

Notes

  1. ^ Unofficial flags are shown with a red background.
  2. ^ Unofficial emblems are shown with a red background.
  3. ^ When a subdivision has the same name as its capital city, the full official name of that subdivision is shown to not cause confusion.
  4. ^ Includes the 897,900 km2 Taymyrsky Dolgano-Nenetsky District
  5. ^ 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.
  6. ^ 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 the autonomous okrugs included) is 1,433,270 km2.
  7. ^ a b These figures cannot be verified by their Wikipedia page.
  8. ^ as of 2006
  9. ^ as of 2009
  10. ^ a b The Arkhangelsk Oblast contains the Nenets Autonomous Okrug, but both are considered to be federal subjects of Russia. The total area for the oblast (with the autonomous okrug included) is 587,400 km2.
  11. ^ a b as of 2008
  12. ^ Not to be confused with Almaty.
  13. ^ French Guiana's official flag is the French flag. Only the French flag is officially recognized by the French constitution as the national flag, the green and yellow flag is however still used by the French Guiana national football team and still commonly flown by civilians, the green and yellow diagonal flag that is commonly used to represent French Guiana, actually has no official status. Other flags unofficially used to represent French Guiana include the Banner of Arms, which adapts the Lesser Coat of Arms of French Guiana into a flag. And the flag of the territorial collectivity used by the local government, which is a white field with green lines with the shape of French Guiana's borders, and a text which reads "Collectivité Territoriale de Guyane".

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