List of countries in the Americas by area

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This is a list of all the countries and dependent territories by area. This includes Greenland.

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.

# Country (or dependent territory) Area Official language(s) Data
1  Canada 9,984,670 km² English
French
[a]
2  United States 9,836,517 km² English
Spanish
[b]
3  Brazil 8,515,770 km² Portuguese [c]
4  Argentina 2,780,400 km² Spanish [d]
 Greenland 2,166,086 km² Greenlandic [e]
5  Mexico 1,964,375 km² Spanish [f]
6  Peru 1,285,216 km² Spanish
Aymara
7  Colombia 1,138,910 km² Spanish
8  Bolivia 1,098,581 km² Spanish
Aymara
Quechua
9  Venezuela 912,050 km² Spanish
10  Chile 756,102 km² Spanish
11  Paraguay 406,752 km² Spanish
Guarani
12  Ecuador 283,756 km² Spanish
13  Guyana 214,969 km² English
14  Uruguay 176,215 km² Spanish
15  Suriname 163,820 km² Dutch
16  Nicaragua 130,370 km² Spanish
17  Honduras 112,090 km² Spanish
18  Cuba 110,090 km² Spanish
19  Guatemala 108,889 km² Spanish
 French Guiana 83,534 km² French
20  Panama 75,420 km² Spanish
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
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
 Guadeloupe 1,628 km² French
 Martinique 1,128 km² French
 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
 Cayman Islands 264 km² English
35  Saint Kitts and Nevis 261 km² English
 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
 Saba 13 km² English
Dutch

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  1. Largest English and French-speaking country in the world by area and largest country in North America and Anglo-America
  2. Largest Spanish-speaking country in the world by area and Second largest English-speaking country in the world after Canada by area. Excluding US Territories
  3. Largest country in South America and Latin America and largest Portuguese-speaking country in the world by area
  4. Second largest Spanish-speaking country in the world after the United States by area
  5. Largest island in the world
  6. Third largest Spanish-speaking country in the world after Argentina and the United States by area. Highest number of Spanish speakers in the world