The country with a total area of 17,098,246 square kilometres is Russia.
Russia is the world’s largest country by total area, spanning Eastern Europe and northern Asia. Its territory stretches from the Baltic and Black Sea regions in the west to the Pacific Ocean in the east, and from the Arctic coast southward toward the Caucasus, Central Asia and East Asia.
The country covers roughly one-eighth of Earth’s inhabited land area and extends across 11 time zones. Moscow, in European Russia, is the capital and largest city, while much of the country’s landmass lies east of the Ural Mountains in Siberia and the Russian Far East.
The figure can vary slightly among references because area calculations may treat disputed territories, inland waters and boundary conventions differently. That does not affect the quiz answer: Russia remains clearly larger than Canada, China or the United States. It is also larger than the continents of Australia and Antarctica when comparing land areas under commonly used geographic measurements.