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Countries Ranked by Urban land area where elevation is below 5 meters (sq. km)

Showing every country with available data for 2015 • World Bank: AG.LND.EL5M.UR.K2

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 (sq. km) 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 22.71, 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

China

32,989.80

Europe & Central Asia

Netherlands

4,256.85

Latin America & Caribbean

Brazil

1,503.74

Middle East, North Africa, Afghanistan & Pakistan

Egypt, Arab Rep.

4,819.91

North America

United States

5,003.99

South Asia

Bangladesh

7,024.52

Sub-Saharan Africa

Nigeria

989.31

Rank Country Urban land area where elevation is below 5 meters (sq. km)
1 China 32,989.80
2 Viet Nam 12,038.39
3 Bangladesh 7,024.52
4 India 7,009.45
5 Japan 6,558.80
6 Indonesia 5,029.16
7 United States 5,003.99
8 Egypt, Arab Rep. 4,819.91
9 Netherlands 4,256.85
10 Thailand 4,007.04
11 Malaysia 1,730.75
12 Philippines 1,511.45
13 Brazil 1,503.74
14 Italy 1,081.06
15 Nigeria 989.31
16 Germany 852.19
17 Spain 844.28
18 United Kingdom 825.79
19 Australia 751.94
20 France 735.75
21 Turkiye 643.44
22 Russian Federation 581.00
23 United Arab Emirates 528.99
24 Belgium 521.04
25 Korea, Rep. 437.95
26 Mexico 425.77
27 Saudi Arabia 379.48
28 Myanmar 365.95
29 Denmark 355.66
30 Venezuela, RB 328.35
31 Tunisia 328.08
32 Canada 290.63
33 Ghana 286.57
34 Sri Lanka 276.93
35 Sweden 274.40
36 Iran, Islamic Rep. 259.72
37 Iraq 251.26
38 Benin 247.00
39 Argentina 243.14
40 Libya 237.76
41 Ukraine 222.78
42 Poland 222.04
43 Greece 209.33
44 Suriname 207.08
45 Puerto Rico (US) 178.02
46 Korea, Dem. People's Rep. 166.84
47 Senegal 165.36
48 Algeria 164.53
49 Morocco 156.33
50 Ecuador 149.58
51 Guyana 147.90
52 Oman 141.90
53 Norway 131.02
54 Colombia 130.37
55 Mozambique 126.81
56 Finland 125.79
57 Liberia 124.45
58 Portugal 121.86
59 New Zealand 118.37
60 Jamaica 116.69
61 Mauritania 115.14
62 Cote d'Ivoire 112.71
63 Bahrain 108.04
64 Madagascar 106.03
65 Cuba 104.94
66 Qatar 102.23
67 South Africa 99.19
68 Latvia 91.34
69 Angola 90.12
70 Guinea 87.13
71 Kuwait 79.33
72 Hong Kong SAR, China 72.49
73 Israel 71.23
74 Pakistan 69.99
75 Dominican Republic 69.85
76 Chile 66.54
77 Albania 66.36
78 Croatia 65.71
79 Haiti 63.74
80 Peru 58.57
81 Ireland 57.20
82 Georgia 56.16
83 Yemen, Rep. 54.23
84 Panama 52.49
85 Uruguay 51.77
86 Trinidad and Tobago 51.53
87 Cameroon 50.28
88 Papua New Guinea 47.45
89 Belize 41.48
90 Lebanon 41.04
91 Honduras 40.47
92 Sierra Leone 38.74
93 Tanzania 38.33
94 Bulgaria 37.54
95 Gabon 36.92
96 Togo 35.97
97 Brunei Darussalam 34.03
98 Cambodia 33.08
99 Cyprus 30.64
100 Kenya 28.83
101 Somalia, Fed. Rep. 27.89
102 Costa Rica 27.00
103 Romania 26.71
104 Syrian Arab Republic 26.45
105 Guinea-Bissau 25.14
106 Gambia, The 24.65
107 Bahamas, The 24.36
108 Sudan 22.71
109 Fiji 21.88
110 Singapore 20.99
111 Estonia 20.94
112 Lithuania 17.66
113 Mauritius 17.40
114 Equatorial Guinea 16.74
115 El Salvador 14.84
116 Montenegro 14.75
117 Nicaragua 14.65
118 Guatemala 13.63
119 Slovenia 12.42
120 New Caledonia 12.14
121 Iceland 12.04
122 Bermuda 11.17
123 Cayman Islands 10.97
124 French Polynesia 10.88
125 Comoros 10.87
126 Maldives 10.71
127 Djibouti 8.39
128 Eritrea 8.39
129 Macao SAR, China 8.31
130 Solomon Islands 7.56
131 Aruba 7.53
132 Virgin Islands (U.S.) 7.44
133 West Bank and Gaza 7.42
134 Grenada 7.25
135 Congo, Rep. 7.22
136 St. Lucia 6.82
137 Malta 6.55
138 Marshall Islands 6.55
139 Timor-Leste 6.49
140 St. Martin (French part) 6.29
141 Tonga 6.20
142 Barbados 6.17
143 Seychelles 4.80
144 Cabo Verde 4.72
145 Vanuatu 4.51
146 Turks and Caicos Islands 4.12
147 Sint Maarten (Dutch part) 3.80
148 Curacao 3.71
149 Kiribati 3.71
150 St. Vincent and the Grenadines 3.61
151 Gibraltar 3.50
152 Samoa 3.50
153 Namibia 3.45
154 Antigua and Barbuda 3.35
155 Dominica 3.04
156 Congo, Dem. Rep. 2.76
157 Micronesia, Fed. Sts. 2.46
158 Greenland 2.32
159 Isle of Man 2.24
160 British Virgin Islands 2.11
161 Guam 1.92
162 Palau 1.74
163 St. Kitts and Nevis 1.70
164 American Samoa 1.50
165 Northern Mariana Islands 1.46
166 Nauru 1.30
167 Jordan 1.18
168 Sao Tome and Principe 1.13
169 Monaco 0.56
170 Zimbabwe 0.00
171 Faroe Islands 0.00
172 Ethiopia 0.00
173 Eswatini 0.00
174 Hungary 0.00
175 Kazakhstan 0.00
176 Czechia 0.00
177 Kyrgyz Republic 0.00
178 Lao PDR 0.00
179 Afghanistan 0.00
180 Lesotho 0.00
181 Liechtenstein 0.00
182 Luxembourg 0.00
183 Malawi 0.00
184 Mali 0.00
185 Moldova 0.00
186 Mongolia 0.00
187 Chad 0.00
188 Central African Republic 0.00
189 Nepal 0.00
190 Niger 0.00
191 North Macedonia 0.00
192 Burundi 0.00
193 Paraguay 0.00
194 Burkina Faso 0.00
195 Botswana 0.00
196 Bosnia and Herzegovina 0.00
197 Rwanda 0.00
198 San Marino 0.00
199 Bolivia 0.00
200 Bhutan 0.00
201 Serbia 0.00
202 Slovak Republic 0.00
203 South Sudan 0.00
204 Belarus 0.00
205 Switzerland 0.00
206 Tajikistan 0.00
207 Azerbaijan 0.00
208 Austria 0.00
209 Turkmenistan 0.00
210 Tuvalu 0.00
211 Uganda 0.00
212 Armenia 0.00
213 Andorra 0.00
214 Uzbekistan 0.00
215 Zambia 0.00

Source: World Bank Open Data (AG.LND.EL5M.UR.K2), 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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