List of largest protected areas
Largest protected areas of the world

List of largest protected areas

Section Title: Largest protected areas of the world
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Rank	Name	Country or area	Size (sq. km)	Year designated

1	Marae Moana	Cook Islands	1,976,000	2017

2	Ross Sea Region Marine Protected Area	Antarctica	1,555,851	2017

3	Papahānaumokuākea Marine National Monument	Hawaii and Midway Atoll, United States	1,508,870	2006

4	Natural Park of the Coral Sea	New Caledonia	1,292,967	2014

5	Pacific Remote Islands Marine National Monument	Central Pacific Ocean, United States	1,277,860	2009

6	South Georgia Marine Protected Area	South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands	1,070,000	2012

7	Coral Sea Marine Park	Australia	989,836	2018

8	Protection zone around the French Southern Territories National Nature Reserve	French Southern and Antarctic Lands	989,787	2017

9	Northeast Greenland National Park	Greenland	972,000	1974

10	Steller Sea Lion Protection Areas	Alaska, United States	869,206	2002

11	Pitcairn Islands Marine Reserve	Pitcairn Islands	834,334	2016

12	British Indian Ocean Territory Marine Protected Area	British Indian Ocean Territory (disputed by Mauritius)	640,000	2010

13	French Southern Territories National Nature Reserve	French Southern and Antarctic Lands	545,060	2016

14	Palau National Marine Sanctuary	Palau	500,000	2015

15	Kermadec Benthic Protection Area	Kermadec Islands, New Zealand	469,276	2007

16	Phoenix Islands Protected Area	Phoenix Islands, Kiribati	408,250	2006

17	Pacific Biosphere Reserve	Eastern Pacific Ocean, Mexico	390,091	2016

18	Great Barrier Reef Marine Park	Australia	348,700	1981

19	Offshore Trap/Pot Waters Area	Western Atlantic Ocean, United States	336,101	1997

20	Nazca-Desventuradas Marine Park	Desventuradas Islands, Chile	300,035	2016

Sentence(s)

Ross Sea protected over 1.5 million square kilometres and was one of the world's largest protected area.

final_sentence: Ross Sea protected over 1.5 million square kilometres and was one of the world's largest protected area.