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  ALMANAC   Top Ten Lists    Most Populous Countries

 
 
Most Populous Countries
Countries of the world with the highest populations

1
 People's Republic of China   1,315,000,000

 The People's Republic of China , is a country in East Asia. The PRC has a coastline of 14,500 kilometres , and borders Vietnam, Laos, Myanmar, India, Bhutan, Nepal, Pakistan, Afghanistan, Tajikistan, Kyrgyzstan, Kazakhstan, Russia, Mongolia, and North Korea.
 

2
 India   1,122,000,000

 India , officially the Republic of India, is a country in South Asia. It is the seventh-largest country by geographical area, the second most populous country, and the largest liberal democracy in the world. India has a coastline of over seven thousand kilometres and borders Pakistan to the west; China, Nepal, and Bhutan to the north-east; and Bangladesh and Myanmar to the east.
 

3
 United States   300,913,000

 The United States of America, also known as the United States, the U.S., the U.S.A., and America, is a country in North America. A federal republic, the United States shares land borders with Canada and Mexico, and extends from the Atlantic Ocean to the Pacific Ocean.The United States is also in extremely close proximity to Russia via the state of Alaska; separated only by the Bering Strait.
 

4
 Indonesia   233,700,000

 Indonesia, officially the Republic of Indonesia , is a nation of islands consisting of 18,110 islands in the South East Asian Archipelago. The capital is Jakarta, formerly known as Batavia. Indonesia is the world's largest archipelagic nation, and it is bordered by the nations of Papua New Guinea, East Timor, and Malaysia.
 

5
 Brazil   188,078,261

 Brazil, officially the Federative Republic of Brazil , is the largest and most populous country in South America, and fifth largest in the world in both area and population. Spanning a vast area between central South America and the Atlantic Ocean, it is the easternmost country of the Americas and it borders Uruguay, Argentina, Paraguay, Bolivia, Peru, Colombia, Venezuela, Guyana, Suriname
 

6
 Pakistan   165,803,560

 Pakistan, officially the Islamic Republic of Pakistan , is a country located in South Asia that overlaps with the Greater Middle East. It has a thousand-kilometre coastline along the Arabian Sea in the south and borders Afghanistan and Iran to the west, India to the east and the People's Republic of China in the far northeast.
 

7
 Bangladesh   149,070,000

 Bangladesh, officially the People's Republic of Bangladesh, is a country in South Asia. It is surrounded by India on all sides except for a small border with Myanmar to the far southeast and the Bay of Bengal to the south. Together with the Indian state of West Bengal, it makes up the ethno-linguistic region of Bengal.
 

8
 Russia   141,700,000

 Russia , also the Russian Federation , is a country that stretches over a vast expanse of Eurasia. With an area of 17,075,400 square kilometres, it is the largest country in the world by land mass, covering almost twice the territory of the next-largest country, Canada.
 

9
 Nigeria   133,400,000

 Nigeria, officially the Federal Republic of Nigeria, is a country in West Africa and the most populous country on the African continent. Nigeria shares land borders with the Republic of Benin in the west, Chad and Cameroon in the east, Niger in the north, and borders the Gulf of Guinea in the south.
 

10
 Japan   127,417,000

 is an island country in East Asia. Located in the Pacific Ocean, it lies to the east of China, Korea, and Russia, stretching from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north to the East China Sea in the south. Its capital is Tokyo. At over 377,872 square kilometres , Japan is the 62nd largest country by area.
 
 
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