List of European countries by area Facts for Kids

Below is a list of European countries and dependencies by area in Europe. As a continent, Europe's total geographical area is about 10 million square kilometres. Transcontinental countries are ranked according to the size of their European part only, excluding Greece due to the not clearly defined boundaries of its islands between Europe and Asia. Inland water is included in area numbers.

List of European countries and dependencies by area

	Country or dependency	% total	Europe area
	Country or dependency	% total	km²	mi²
end –	Europe	100%	10,014,000	3,866,000
1 T	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	Germany	3.6%	357,581	138,063
7	Finland	3.4%	336,884	130,072
8	Norway	3.2%	323,772	125,009
9	Poland	3.1%	312,679	120,726
10 T	Italy	3.0%	301,958	116,587
11	United Kingdom	2.4%	244,376	94,354
12	Romania	2.4%	238,298	92,007
13	Belarus	2.1%	207,600	80,200
14 T	Kazakhstan	1.5%	148,000	57,000
15 T	Greece	1.3%	131,957	50,949
16	Bulgaria	1.1%	110,372	42,615
17	Iceland	1.0%	103,000	40,000
18	Hungary	0.9%	93,025	35,917
19 T	Portugal	0.9%	91,421	35,298
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
end –	Svalbard (Norway)	0.6%	62,045	23,956
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	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 T	Turkey	0.2%	23,757	9,173
38	Slovenia	0.2%	20,273	7,827
39	Montenegro	0.1%	13,888	5,362
end –	Kosovo	0.1%	10,910	4,210
40 T	Azerbaijan	0.07%	6,960	2,690
end –	Transnistria		4,163	1,607
41 T	Georgia	0.03%	3,040	1,170
42	Luxembourg	0.03%	2,586	998
end –	Åland (Finland)	0.02%	1,583	611
end –	Faroe Islands (Denmark)	0.01%	1,393	538
end –	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
end –	Jersey (UK)	0.001%	116	45
end –	Guernsey (UK)	0.001%	78	30
46	San Marino	0.001%	61	24
end –	Gibraltar (UK)	0%	7	2.7
47	Monaco	0%	2	0.77
48	Vatican City	0%	0	0
end – C	Abkhazia		(8,665)	(3,346)
end – C	South Ossetia		(3,900)	(1,506)
end – C	Akrotiri and Dhekelia (UK)	0%	(254)	(98)
49 C	Armenia	0%	(29,743)	(11,484)
50 C	Cyprus	0%	(9,251)	(3,572)
end – C	Greenland (Denmark)	0%	(2,166,086)	(836,327)
end – C	Northern Cyprus	0%	(3,355)	(1,295)

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.