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Countries Ranked by Urban land area where elevation is below 5 meters (% of total land area)

Showing every country with available data for 2015 • World Bank: AG.LND.EL5M.UR.ZS

The indicator page shows only the leaders and the laggards — useful for headlines, but it leaves out the middle of the distribution, which is where most countries actually sit. This page lists every country with reported urban land area where elevation is below 5 meters (% of total land area) data for 2015, ranked from highest to lowest, so you can find any country's exact position rather than guessing whether it falls inside the top or bottom ten.

Of the 215 countries reporting, the median value is 0.06, meaning half the world sits above this line and half below. Use the search box below to jump straight to a country, or scroll the full table. Each country name links through to its detailed country × indicator page with the 20-year trend.

Top Country in Each Region

East Asia & Pacific

Macao SAR, China

32.78

Europe & Central Asia

Gibraltar

47.06

Latin America & Caribbean

St. Martin (French part)

12.69

Middle East, North Africa, Afghanistan & Pakistan

Bahrain

16.22

North America

Bermuda

17.94

South Asia

Bangladesh

5.15

Sub-Saharan Africa

Seychelles

0.98

Rank Country Urban land area where elevation is below 5 meters (% of total land area)
1 Gibraltar 47.06
2 Macao SAR, China 32.78
3 Monaco 19.84
4 Bermuda 17.94
5 Bahrain 16.22
6 St. Martin (French part) 12.69
7 Netherlands 12.33
8 Sint Maarten (Dutch part) 11.17
9 Hong Kong SAR, China 6.54
10 Nauru 5.89
11 Bangladesh 5.15
12 Aruba 4.13
13 Cayman Islands 4.01
14 Maldives 3.91
15 Viet Nam 3.69
16 Singapore 3.16
17 Marshall Islands 2.33
18 Virgin Islands (U.S.) 2.07
19 Malta 2.02
20 Grenada 2.02
21 Puerto Rico (US) 2.00
22 Japan 1.77
23 Belgium 1.71
24 Barbados 1.41
25 British Virgin Islands 1.30
26 St. Lucia 1.10
27 Jamaica 1.06
28 Trinidad and Tobago 1.00
29 Seychelles 0.98
30 St. Vincent and the Grenadines 0.91
31 Qatar 0.91
32 Mauritius 0.87
33 Curacao 0.86
34 Tonga 0.85
35 Denmark 0.83
36 Thailand 0.78
37 Antigua and Barbuda 0.78
38 American Samoa 0.68
39 United Arab Emirates 0.67
40 Comoros 0.65
41 St. Kitts and Nevis 0.64
42 Brunei Darussalam 0.59
43 Malaysia 0.53
44 Philippines 0.51
45 Egypt, Arab Rep. 0.49
46 Kuwait 0.46
47 Korea, Rep. 0.44
48 Turks and Caicos Islands 0.44
49 Sri Lanka 0.43
50 Kiribati 0.41
51 Dominica 0.40
52 Lebanon 0.39
53 Isle of Man 0.39
54 Italy 0.36
55 Palau 0.36
56 China 0.36
57 Guam 0.35
58 United Kingdom 0.34
59 Cyprus 0.33
60 Israel 0.32
61 Micronesia, Fed. Sts. 0.32
62 Northern Mariana Islands 0.29
63 French Polynesia 0.27
64 Indonesia 0.27
65 Germany 0.24
66 Haiti 0.24
67 Albania 0.24
68 Gambia, The 0.23
69 India 0.22
70 Benin 0.21
71 Tunisia 0.21
72 Bahamas, The 0.20
73 Belize 0.19
74 Spain 0.17
75 Greece 0.16
76 Dominican Republic 0.15
77 Latvia 0.14
78 Suriname 0.14
79 Korea, Dem. People's Rep. 0.14
80 France 0.13
81 Portugal 0.13
82 Liberia 0.13
83 West Bank and Gaza 0.12
84 Ghana 0.12
85 Samoa 0.12
86 Croatia 0.12
87 Fiji 0.12
88 Cabo Verde 0.11
89 Sao Tome and Principe 0.11
90 Montenegro 0.11
91 Nigeria 0.11
92 Cuba 0.10
93 Senegal 0.08
94 Turkiye 0.08
95 Ireland 0.08
96 Georgia 0.08
97 Guinea-Bissau 0.08
98 El Salvador 0.07
99 Poland 0.07
100 Guyana 0.07
101 Panama 0.07
102 Sweden 0.07
103 New Caledonia 0.06
104 Togo 0.06
105 Equatorial Guinea 0.06
106 Slovenia 0.06
107 Ecuador 0.06
108 Iraq 0.06
109 United States 0.06
110 Myanmar 0.05
111 Sierra Leone 0.05
112 Costa Rica 0.05
113 Estonia 0.05
114 Oman 0.05
115 New Zealand 0.04
116 Timor-Leste 0.04
117 Norway 0.04
118 Finland 0.04
119 Djibouti 0.04
120 Ukraine 0.04
121 Morocco 0.04
122 Vanuatu 0.04
123 Venezuela, RB 0.04
124 Honduras 0.04
125 Guinea 0.04
126 Cote d'Ivoire 0.04
127 Bulgaria 0.03
128 Uruguay 0.03
129 Lithuania 0.03
130 Solomon Islands 0.03
131 Mexico 0.02
132 Saudi Arabia 0.02
133 Cambodia 0.02
134 Madagascar 0.02
135 Brazil 0.02
136 Mozambique 0.02
137 Iran, Islamic Rep. 0.02
138 Libya 0.01
139 Syrian Arab Republic 0.01
140 Gabon 0.01
141 Iceland 0.01
142 Guatemala 0.01
143 Nicaragua 0.01
144 Yemen, Rep. 0.01
145 Colombia 0.01
146 Romania 0.01
147 Mauritania 0.01
148 Cameroon 0.01
149 Papua New Guinea 0.01
150 Australia 0.01
151 Chile 0.01
152 Argentina 0.01
153 South Africa 0.01
154 Pakistan 0.01
155 Angola 0.01
156 Algeria 0.01
157 Eritrea 0.01
158 Kenya 0.00
159 Peru 0.00
160 Somalia, Fed. Rep. 0.00
161 Tanzania 0.00
162 Russian Federation 0.00
163 Canada 0.00
164 Congo, Rep. 0.00
165 Jordan 0.00
166 Sudan 0.00
167 Greenland 0.00
168 Namibia 0.00
169 Congo, Dem. Rep. 0.00
170 Turkmenistan 0.00
171 Bolivia 0.00
172 Tuvalu 0.00
173 Uganda 0.00
174 Bhutan 0.00
175 Belarus 0.00
176 Azerbaijan 0.00
177 Austria 0.00
178 Uzbekistan 0.00
179 Armenia 0.00
180 Andorra 0.00
181 Zambia 0.00
182 Zimbabwe 0.00
183 Nepal 0.00
184 Mongolia 0.00
185 Moldova 0.00
186 Niger 0.00
187 North Macedonia 0.00
188 Mali 0.00
189 Malawi 0.00
190 Luxembourg 0.00
191 Liechtenstein 0.00
192 Paraguay 0.00
193 Lesotho 0.00
194 Lao PDR 0.00
195 Kyrgyz Republic 0.00
196 Kazakhstan 0.00
197 Rwanda 0.00
198 San Marino 0.00
199 Hungary 0.00
200 Serbia 0.00
201 Faroe Islands 0.00
202 Slovak Republic 0.00
203 Ethiopia 0.00
204 Eswatini 0.00
205 South Sudan 0.00
206 Czechia 0.00
207 Chad 0.00
208 Central African Republic 0.00
209 Switzerland 0.00
210 Tajikistan 0.00
211 Burundi 0.00
212 Burkina Faso 0.00
213 Afghanistan 0.00
214 Botswana 0.00
215 Bosnia and Herzegovina 0.00

Source: World Bank Open Data (AG.LND.EL5M.UR.ZS), CC BY 4.0. Rankings include only countries with reported values for 2015; countries with suppressed or unavailable data are omitted.

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