Have you ever wanted to cut out every country on a map and organise them into size order? No? Us neither *hides scissors*.

Well if you would like to gain some perspective on the sizes of countries, this black and white infographic poster shows all the 197 countries of the world laid out methodically in land area size order from largest to smallest.

Just so you know what we are dealing with, in terms of the smallest to largest countries, Vatican City can fit into Russia over 38 million times.