| source of area data | 2008 | ||||||||||||
| http://www.mongabay.com/igapo/world_statistics_by_area.htm | |||||||||||||
| Population | |||||||||||||
| 2012 | Growth | density | 1 kilometer = 0.621371 miles | ||||||||||
| Population | Urban | 2002-2008 | Land area | #/sq km | Land area | ||||||||
| Rank | Country | Capital city | 2008 Population | Estimate | 2002 Population | percent | Population | (sq km) | % of surface | square miles | |||
| notes | |||||||||||||
| 1 | Russia | Moscow | 140,702,000 | 8-Jul | 144,978,573 | 74% | -2.95% | 17,075,200 | 8.2 | 0.0335 | 6,592,800 | ||
| 2 | Canada | Ottawa | 33,213,000 | 8-Jul | 31,902,268 | 80% | 4.11% | 9,976,140 | 3.3 | 0.0196 | 3,851,808 | ||
| 3 | United States of A. | Washington DC | 303,825,000 | 8-Jul | 280,562,489 | 79% | 8.29% | 9,629,091 | 31.6 | 0.0189 | 3,717,792 | ||
| 4 | China | Beijing | 1,330,045,000 | 8-Jul | 1,284,303,705 | 51% | 3.56% | 9,596,960 | 138.6 | 0.0167 | 3,285,618 | ||
| 5 | Brazil | Brasilia | 191,909,000 | 8-Jul | 176,029,560 | 84% | 9.02% | 8,511,965 | 22.5 | 0.0167 | 3,285,618 | ||
| 6 | Australia | Canberra | 20,601,000 | 8-Jul | 19,546,792 | 82% | 5.39% | 7,686,850 | 2.7 | 0.0151 | 2,967,124 | ||
| 7 | India | New Delhi | 1,147,996,000 | 8-Jul | 1,045,845,226 | 31% | 9.77% | 3,287,590 | 349.2 | 0.0064 | 1,269,009 | ||
| 8 | Argentina | Buenos Aires | 40,677,000 | 8-Jul | 37,812,817 | 91% | 7.57% | 2,766,890 | 14.7 | 0.0054 | 1,068,019 | ||
| 9 | Kazakhstan | Astana | 15,341,000 | 8-Jul | 16,741,519 | 55% | -8.37% | 2,717,300 | 5.6 | 0.0053 | 1,048,877 | ||
| 10 | Sudan* | Khartoum | 40,218,000 | 8-Jul | 37,090,298 | 41% | 8.43% | 2,505,810 | 16 | ||||
| 11 | Algeria | Algiers | 33,770,000 | 8-Jul | 32,277,942 | 72% | 4.62% | 2,381,740 | 14.2 | 0.0047 | 919,352 | ||
| 12 | Congo (Dem. Rep.) | Kinshasa | 66,515,000 | 8-Jul | 55,225,478 | 34% | 20.44% | 2,345,410 | 28.4 | 0.0046 | 905,328 | ||
| 13 | Greenland | Nuuk | 56,300 | 8-Jul | 56,376 | 0% | -0.13% | 2,166,086 | 0 | 0.0042 | 836,330 | not independent | |
| 14 | Mexico | Mexico | 109,955,000 | 8-Jul | 103,400,165 | 77% | 6.34% | 1,972,550 | 55.7 | 0.0039 | 761,404 | ||
| 15 | Saudi Arabia | Riyadh | 28,161,000 | 8-Jul | 23,513,330 | 81% | 19.77% | 1,960,582 | 14.4 | 0.0038 | 756,785 | ||
| 16 | Indonesia | Jakarta | 237,512,000 | 8-Jul | 231,328,092 | 43% | 2.67% | 1,919,440 | 123.7 | 0.0038 | 740,904 | ||
| 17 | Libya | Tripoli | 6,174,000 | 8-Jul | 5,368,585 | 78% | 15.00% | 1,759,540 | 3.5 | ||||
| 18 | Iran | Tehran | 65,875,000 | 8-Jul | 66,622,704 | 69% | -1.12% | 1,648,000 | 40 | ||||
| 19 | Mongolia | Ulaanbaatar | 2,996,000 | 8-Jul | 2,694,432 | 63% | 11.19% | 1,565,000 | 1.9 | ||||
| 20 | Peru | Lima | 29,181,000 | 8-Jul | 27,949,639 | 74% | 4.41% | 1,285,220 | 22.7 | ||||
| 21 | Chad | N'Djamena | 10,111,000 | 8-Jul | 8,997,237 | 28% | 12.38% | 1,284,000 | 7.9 | ||||
| 22 | Niger | Niamey | 13,273,000 | 8-Jul | 10,639,744 | 20% | 24.75% | 1,267,000 | 10.5 | ||||
| 23 | Angola | Luanda | 12,531,000 | 8-Jul | 10,593,171 | 59% | 18.29% | 1,246,700 | 10.1 | ||||
| 24 | Mali | Bamako | 12,324,000 | 8-Jul | 11,340,480 | 33% | 8.67% | 1,240,000 | 9.9 | ||||
| 25 | South Africa | Pretoria ² | 43,786,000 | 8-Jul | 43,647,658 | 62% | 0.32% | 1,219,912 | 35.9 | ||||
| 26 | Colombia | Bogota | 45,014,000 | 8-Jul | 41,008,227 | 76% | 9.77% | 1,138,910 | 39.5 | ||||
| 27 | Ethiopia | Addis Ababa | 78,254,000 | 8-Jul | 67,673,031 | 17% | 15.64% | 1,127,127 | 69.4 | ||||
| 28 | Bolivia | Sucre | 9,248,000 | 8-Jul | 8,445,134 | 66% | 9.51% | 1,098,580 | 8.4 | ||||
| 29 | Mauritania | Nouakchott | 3,365,000 | 8-Jul | 2,828,858 | 42% | 18.95% | 1,030,700 | 3.3 | ||||
| 30 | Egypt | Cairo | 81,714,000 | 8-Jul | 70,712,345 | 43% | 15.56% | 1,001,450 | 81.6 | ||||
| 31 | Tanzania | Dar es Salaam | 40,213,000 | 8-Jul | 37,187,939 | 26% | 8.13% | 945,087 | 42.5 | ||||
| 32 | Nigeria | Abuja | 138,283,000 | 8-Jul | 129,934,911 | 51% | 6.42% | 923,768 | 149.7 | ||||
| 33 | Venezuela | Caracas | 26,415,000 | 8-Jul | 24,287,670 | 88% | 8.76% | 912,050 | 29 | ||||
| 34 | Namibia | Windhoek | 2,089,000 | 8-Jul | 1,820,916 | 39% | 14.72% | 825,418 | 2.5 | ||||
| 35 | Pakistan | Islamabad | 167,762,000 | 8-Jul | 147,663,429 | 35% | 13.61% | 803,940 | 208.7 | ||||
| 36 | Mozambique | Maputo | 21,285,000 | 8-Jul | 19,607,519 | 31% | 8.56% | 801,590 | 26.6 | ||||
| 37 | Turkey | Ankara | 71,893,000 | 8-Jul | 67,308,928 | 77% | 6.81% | 780,580 | 92.1 | ||||
| 38 | Chile | Santiago | 16,454,000 | 8-Jul | 15,498,930 | 87% | 6.16% | 756,950 | 21.7 | ||||
| 39 | Zambia | Lusaka | 11,670,000 | 8-Jul | 9,959,037 | 39% | 17.18% | 752,614 | 15.5 | ||||
| 40 | Burma (Myanmar | Rangoon | 47,758,000 | 8-Jul | 42,238,224 | 31% | 13.07% | 678,500 | 70.4 | ||||
| density | % of surface | square miles | |||||||||||
| W | World Averages | or Totals where | 7,074,304,150 | 24-Mar-13 | 51% | 510,072,000 | 52 | 0.16 | 196,939,900 | ||||
| For information on Square miles | |||||||||||||
| *NOTE | http://geography.about.com/od/countryinformation/a/bigcountries.htm | 9-Nov-12 | |||||||||||
| Sudan split in 2011 into | 2,505,810 | ||||||||||||
| Sudan | 33,500,000 | 2012 | 0.41 | 1,886,065 | 15 | 728,215 | |||||||
| http://prbblog.org/index.php/2011/07/18/ | South Sudan | 9,400,000 | 2012 | 0.17 | 619,745 | 18 | 239,285 | ||||||
| 120 | Ireland | Dublin | 4,156,000 | 8-Jul | 3,883,159 | 0.6 | 7.03% | 70,280.00 | 59.1 | ||||
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