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Which is the largest country in the world by area?
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Russia is the world's largest country by total area. Its area is about 17.1 million square kilometers. Russia is therefore considerably larger than Canada, China, and the United States and stretches across much of Eastern Europe and northern Asia. Its enormous east-west extent spans several thousand kilometers from Europe to the Pacific. The World Bank lists Russia first in its surface-area data.
In the World Bank's surface-area data, Russia is larger than Canada, China, and the United States.
Source: World Bank
