What's the biggest country in the world?
For grown-ups: the science
Russia! It has more land than any other country in the whole world.
Country size is usually compared using total area, including land and inland water. Russia's total area is about 17.1 million square kilometers, the largest in the world, about 45 times the size of Japan, and it spans 11 different time zones.
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A kid is looking at a big map, comparing how big different countries are. What makes a country "big," anyway?
We measure how big a country is by its land, not by how many people live there. Russia has the most land of any country in the world.
Russia stretches all the way across Europe and Asia. It covers about 17 million square kilometers of land.
You could fit about 45 Japans inside Russia. Russia is so wide, it has 11 different time zones.
Russia has the most land of any country in the world.