Largest Protected Areas in the World
About This Dataset
Largest Protected Areas in the World
Most of the world's largest protected areas are at sea. This chart ranks the largest protected areas in the world, land and marine, by area in square kilometres.
Analysis
Marae Moana is the largest protected area in the world at 1,976,000 square kilometres, ahead of French Southern Territories National Nature Reserve at 1,600,000. The 12 areas shown cover 15,093,456 square kilometres between them. 3 of them are administered by France.
Key Findings
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Marae Moana leads in Area (square kilometres) with 1,976,000 in 2026.
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Average Area (square kilometres) in 2026: 1,257,788 · median: 1,255,240.
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Gap in 2026: Marae Moana is 2.4× larger than Pitcairn Islands Marine Reserve.
Data Insights
Numbers, trends & sources behind this chart
Methodology & source
- Data source
- Wikipedia - List of largest protected areas
- Coverage
- 12 entities · 2026 · 12 observations
- Measure
- Area (square kilometres)
- Last updated
- 10 September 2026
- Compiled by
- The ANYSTAT team, from the source above
How the figures are calculated
- Values are shown as reported by the source. Nothing is rescaled, rebased or converted — the only changes are thousand separators and decimals shown to two places.
- Entities are ranked highest-first on their value in 2026.
Data Sources & References
All external sources cited in this dataset
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