List of European countries by area

This list shows European countries and their areas in square kilometres. Europe is a big continent with a total area of about 10 million square kilometres. Some countries are partly in Europe and partly in other places, so we only count the part that is in Europe. When we talk about the size of a country, we also include any lakes or rivers inside it.

Relative sizes

European countries come in many different sizes. The largest is Russia, which covers almost 4,000,000 km². The smallest is Vatican City, which is 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%	543,941	210,017
4 T	Spain	5.0%	498,485	192,466
5	Sweden	4.4%	438,574	169,334
6	Norway	3.8%	385,207	148,729
7	Germany	3.6%	357,581	138,063
8	Finland	3.4%	336,884	130,072
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	0.08%	8,630	3,330
–	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	Greenland (Denmark)	0%	2,166,086	836,330
49 C	Armenia	0%	29,743	11,484
50 C	Cyprus	0%	9,251	3,572
– C	Abkhazia	0%	8,665	3,346
– C	South Ossetia	0%	3,885	1,500
– C	Akrotiri and Dhekelia (UK)	0%	254	98

Definition

Europe and Asia are connected, so it can be hard to know exactly where Europe ends and Asia begins. Often, the line between them is drawn based on history, politics, and culture, rather than just natural geography.

A map of Europe shows one way to decide its borders.

Blue = Contiguous transcontinental countries
Green = Sometimes considered European due to culture, politics, economy and history, but geographically outside Europe's boundaries