Area - Surface area

The Commonwealth Topics Land Use Area

Surface area is a country's total area, including areas under inland bodies of water and some coastal waterways.

Surface area (sq. km)

	1970	1990	2000	2005	2010	2011	2012	2013	2014	2015	2016	2017	2018	2019	2020	2021	2022
Australia	7,741,220	7,741,220	7,741,220	7,741,220	7,741,220	7,741,220	7,741,220	7,741,220	7,741,220	7,741,220	7,741,220	7,741,220	7,741,220	7,741,220	7,741,220	7,741,220	7,741,220
Brunei Darussalam	5,770	5,770	5,770	5,770	5,770	5,770	5,770	5,770	5,770	5,770	5,770	5,770	5,770	5,770	5,770	5,770	5,770
Kiribati	810	810	810	810	810	810	810	810	810	810	810	810	810	810	810	810	810
Malaysia	330,800	330,800	330,800	330,800	330,800	330,800	330,800	330,396	330,396	330,345	330,713	330,621	330,524	330,241	330,241	330,411	330,411
Nauru	20	20	20	20	20	20	20	20	20	20	20	20	20	20	20	20	20
New Zealand	267,710	267,710	267,710	267,710	267,710	267,710	267,710	267,710	267,710	267,710	267,710	267,710	267,710	267,710	267,710	267,710	267,710
Papua New Guinea	462,840	462,840	462,840	462,840	462,840	462,840	462,840	462,840	462,840	462,840	462,840	462,840	462,840	462,840	462,840	462,840	462,840
Singapore	680	680	680	699	712	714	716	717	719	719	719	722	724	726	728	728	728
Samoa	2,840	2,840	2,840	2,840	2,840	2,840	2,840	2,840	2,840	2,840	2,840	2,840	2,840	2,840	2,840	2,840	2,840
Solomon Islands	28,900	28,900	28,900	28,900	28,900	28,900	28,900	28,900	28,900	28,900	28,900	28,900	28,900	28,900	28,900	28,900	28,900
Vanuatu	12,190	12,190	12,190	12,190	12,190	12,190	12,190	12,190	12,190	12,190	12,190	12,190	12,190	12,190	12,190	12,190	12,190
Tonga	750	750	750	750	750	750	750	750	750	750	750	750	750	750	750	750	750
Tuvalu	30	30	30	30	30	30	30	30	30	30	30	30	30	30	30	30	30
Cyprus	9,250	9,250	9,250	9,250	9,250	9,250	9,250	9,250	9,251	9,251	9,251	9,251	9,250	9,250	9,250	9,250	9,250
United Kingdom	243,610	243,610	243,610	243,610	243,610	243,610	243,610	243,610	243,610	243,610	243,610	243,610	243,610	243,610	243,610	243,610	243,610
Barbados	430	430	430	430	430	430	430	430	430	430	430	430	430	430	430	430	430
Antigua and Barbuda	440	440	440	440	440	440	440	440	440	440	440	440	440	440	440	440	440
Belize	22,970	22,970	22,970	22,970	22,970	22,970	22,970	22,970	22,970	22,970	22,970	22,970	22,970	22,970	22,970	22,970	22,970
Dominica	750	750	750	750	750	750	750	750	750	750	750	750	750	750	750	750	750
Grenada	340	340	340	340	340	340	340	340	340	340	340	340	340	340	340	340	340
Guyana	214,970	214,970	214,970	214,970	214,970	214,970	214,970	214,970	214,970	214,970	214,970	214,970	214,970	214,970	214,970	214,970	214,970
Jamaica	10,990	10,990	10,990	10,990	10,990	10,990	10,990	10,990	10,990	10,990	10,990	10,990	10,990	10,990	10,990	10,990	10,990
St. Lucia	620	620	620	620	620	620	620	620	620	620	620	620	620	620	620	620	620
St. Kitts and Nevis	350	260	260	260	260	260	260	260	260	260	260	260	260	260	260	260	260
St. Vincent and the Grenadines	390	390	390	390	390	390	390	390	390	390	390	390	390	390	390	390	390
Bahamas, The	13,880	13,880	13,880	13,880	13,880	13,880	13,880	13,880	13,880	13,880	13,880	13,880	13,880	13,880	13,880	13,880	13,880
Trinidad and Tobago	5,130	5,130	5,130	5,130	5,130	5,130	5,130	5,130	5,130	5,130	5,130	5,130	5,130	5,130	5,130	5,130	5,130
Malta	320	320	320	320	320	320	320	320	320	320	320	320	320	320	320	320	320
Canada	15,640,500	15,640,500	15,640,500	15,640,500	15,640,500	15,640,500	15,640,500	15,640,500	15,640,500	15,640,500	15,640,500	15,640,500	15,640,500	15,640,500	15,640,500	15,634,410	15,634,410
India	3,287,260	3,287,260	3,287,260	3,287,260	3,287,260	3,287,260	3,287,260	3,287,260	3,287,260	3,287,260	3,287,260	3,287,260	3,287,260	3,287,260	3,287,260	3,287,260	3,287,260
Bangladesh	148,460	148,460	148,460	148,460	148,460	148,460	148,460	148,460	147,630	147,630	147,630	147,977	147,570	147,570	147,570	147,570	147,570
Cameroon	475,440	475,440	475,440	475,440	475,440	475,440	475,440	475,440	475,440	475,440	475,440	475,440	475,440	475,440	475,440	475,440	475,440
Pakistan	796,100	796,100	796,100	796,100	796,100	796,100	796,100	796,100	796,100	796,100	796,100	796,100	796,100	796,100	796,100	796,100	796,100
Sri Lanka	65,610	65,610	65,610	65,610	65,610	65,610	65,610	65,610	65,610	65,610	65,610	65,610	65,610	65,610	65,610	65,610	65,610
Botswana	581,730	581,730	581,730	581,730	581,730	581,730	581,730	581,730	581,730	581,730	581,730	581,730	581,730	581,730	581,730	581,730	581,730
Kenya	580,370	580,370	580,370	580,370	580,370	580,370	580,370	580,370	580,370	580,370	580,370	580,370	580,370	580,370	580,370	580,370	580,370
Lesotho	30,360	30,360	30,360	30,360	30,360	30,360	30,360	30,360	30,360	30,360	30,360	30,360	30,360	30,360	30,360	30,360	30,360
Malawi	118,480	118,480	118,480	118,480	118,480	118,480	118,480	118,480	118,480	118,480	118,480	118,480	118,480	118,480	118,480	118,480	118,480
Ghana	238,540	238,540	238,540	238,540	238,540	238,540	238,540	238,540	238,540	238,540	238,540	238,540	238,540	238,533	238,533	238,533	238,533
Namibia	824,290	824,290	824,290	824,290	824,290	824,290	824,290	824,290	824,290	824,290	824,290	824,290	824,290	824,290	824,290	824,290	824,290
Seychelles	460	460	460	460	460	460	460	460	460	460	460	460	460	460	460	460	460
Mauritius	2,040	2,040	2,040	2,040	2,040	2,007	2,007	2,007	2,007	2,007	2,007	2,007	2,007	2,007	2,007	2,007	2,010
Mozambique	799,380	799,380	799,380	799,380	799,380	799,380	799,380	799,380	799,380	799,380	799,380	799,380	799,380	799,380	799,380	799,380	799,380
Nigeria	923,770	923,770	923,770	923,770	923,770	923,770	923,770	923,770	923,770	923,770	923,770	923,770	923,770	923,770	923,770	923,770	923,770
Rwanda	26,340	26,340	26,340	26,340	26,340	26,340	26,340	26,340	26,340	26,340	26,340	26,340	26,340	26,340	26,340	26,340	26,340
Uganda	241,550	241,550	241,550	241,550	241,550	241,550	241,550	241,550	241,550	241,550	241,550	241,550	241,550	241,550	241,550	241,550	241,550
Zambia	752,610	752,610	752,610	752,610	752,610	752,610	752,610	752,610	752,610	752,610	752,610	752,610	752,610	752,610	752,610	752,610	752,610
Sierra Leone	72,300	72,300	72,300	72,300	72,300	72,300	72,300	72,300	72,300	72,300	72,300	72,300	72,300	72,300	72,300	72,300	72,300
South Africa	1,219,090	1,219,090	1,219,090	1,219,090	1,219,090	1,219,090	1,219,090	1,219,090	1,219,090	1,219,090	1,219,090	1,219,090	1,219,090	1,219,090	1,219,090	1,219,090	1,219,090
Eswatini	17,360	17,360	17,360	17,360	17,360	17,360	17,360	17,360	17,360	17,360	17,360	17,360	17,360	17,360	17,360	17,360	17,360
Tanzania	947,300	947,300	947,300	947,300	947,300	947,300	947,300	947,300	947,300	947,300	947,300	947,300	947,300	947,300	947,300	947,300	947,300
Gambia, The	11,300	11,300	11,300	11,300	11,300	11,300	11,300	11,300	11,300	11,300	11,300	11,300	11,300	11,300	11,300	11,300	11,300

Surface area (sq. km)

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