Largest Countries in Americas 2025

% of Earth's Area

10M

Greenland

1.45%

Country	Area (km²)↓	% of Earth's Area	Continent	Subregion
Canada	10M	6.7%	North America	Northern America
United States	9.4M	6.29%	North America	Northern America
Brazil	8.5M	5.72%	South America	South America, Latin America
Argentina	2.8M	1.87%	South America	South America, Latin America
Greenland	2.2M	1.45%	North America	Northern America
Mexico	2M	1.32%	North America	Central America, Latin America
Peru	1.3M	0.86%	South America	South America, Latin America
Colombia	1.1M	0.77%	South America	South America, Latin America
Bolivia	1.1M	0.74%	South America	South America, Latin America
Venezuela	916.4K	0.62%	South America	South America, Latin America
Chile	756.1K	0.51%	South America	South America, Latin America
Paraguay	406.8K	0.27%	South America	South America, Latin America
Ecuador	276.8K	0.19%	South America	South America, Latin America
Guyana	215K	0.14%	South America	South America, Latin America
Uruguay	181K	0.12%	South America	South America, Latin America
Suriname	163.8K	0.11%	South America	South America, Latin America
Nicaragua	130.4K	< 0.1%	North America	Central America, Latin America
Honduras	112.5K	< 0.1%	North America	Central America, Latin America
Cuba	109.9K	< 0.1%	North America	Caribbean
Guatemala	108.9K	< 0.1%	North America	Central America, Latin America
French Guiana	83.5K	< 0.1%	South America	South America, Latin America
Panama	75.4K	< 0.1%	North America	Central America, Latin America
Costa Rica	51.1K	< 0.1%	North America	Central America, Latin America
Dominican Republic	48.7K	< 0.1%	North America	Caribbean
Haiti	27.8K	< 0.1%	North America	Caribbean
Belize	23K	< 0.1%	North America	Central America, Latin America
El Salvador	21K	< 0.1%	North America	Central America, Latin America
Bahamas	13.9K	< 0.1%	North America	Caribbean
Falkland Islands	12.2K	< 0.1%	South America	South America, Latin America
Jamaica	11K	< 0.1%	North America	Caribbean
Puerto Rico	8.9K	< 0.1%	North America	Caribbean
Trinidad and Tobago	5.1K	< 0.1%	North America	Caribbean
Guadeloupe	1.6K	< 0.1%	North America	Caribbean, Latin America
Martinique	1.1K	< 0.1%	North America	Caribbean, Latin America
Turks and Caicos Islands	948	< 0.1%	North America	Caribbean
Dominica	751	< 0.1%	North America	Caribbean
Saint Lucia	616	< 0.1%	North America	Caribbean
Curacao	444	< 0.1%	North America	Caribbean
Antigua and Barbuda	442	< 0.1%	North America	Caribbean
Barbados	430	< 0.1%	North America	Caribbean
Saint Vincent and the Grenadines	389	< 0.1%	North America	Caribbean
United States Virgin Islands	347	< 0.1%	North America	Caribbean
Grenada	344	< 0.1%	North America	Caribbean
Cayman Islands	264	< 0.1%	North America	Caribbean
Saint Kitts and Nevis	261	< 0.1%	North America	Caribbean
Saint Pierre and Miquelon	242	< 0.1%	North America	Northern America
Aruba	180	< 0.1%	North America	Caribbean
British Virgin Islands	151	< 0.1%	North America	Caribbean
Montserrat	102	< 0.1%	North America	Caribbean
Anguilla	91	< 0.1%	North America	Caribbean
Bermuda	54	< 0.1%	North America	Northern America
Saint Martin	53	< 0.1%	North America	Caribbean, Latin America
Sint Maarten	34	< 0.1%	North America	Caribbean
Saint Barthelemy	21	< 0.1%	North America	Caribbean, Latin America

The Americas comprise the totality of North America and South America. Both continents are located in the Western Hemisphere and make up the New World. It believed that the first humans to settle in the Americas were from Asia and arrived anywhere between 42,000 to 17,000 years ago. Norse explorer Leif Erikson was the first European settler in the Americas; however, Christopher’s Columbus’s voyages were the first to result in permanent colonization.

North America and South America meet at a point on the Isthmus of Panama. Panama was originally part of South America when the boundary between the continents was set as the Costa Rican border and Panama was a province of Colombia. The border changed in 1903 when Panama gained its independence. Panama is the only country to have changed continents. The total area of the Americas is 16.43 million square miles (42.55 million square kilometers) making up about 8% of Earth’s total surface and 28.4% of the Earth’s total land surface. Between both continents, there are about 1.002 billion people, two-thirds of whom live in the United States, Brazil, and Mexico. Between the two continents, there are 31 countries and dozens of territories belonging to the United States and several European countries including the United Kingdom, France, Norway, the Netherlands, and Denmark.

Top 10 Largest Countries in the Americas

Country	Area (km²)
Canada	10M
United States	9.4M
Brazil	8.5M
Argentina	2.8M
Greenland	2.2M
Mexico	2M
Peru	1.3M
Colombia	1.1M
Bolivia	1.1M
Venezuela	916.4K

Canada is the largest country at 3,854,083 square miles (9,984,670 square kilometers). Canada is also the third-largest country in the world. Despite Canada’s size, the population is 37.5 million, ranked 39th in the world. The majority of Canada’s population lives in the southernmost parts along the Canadian-US border due to the harsh weather conditions in the northern half of the country. The United States is the second-largest country in the Americas spanning over 3,617,827 square miles (9,372,610 square kilometers). The United States is the third-largest country in the world by population with over 329 million people.