Key
Documents of the Ramsar Convention
Contracting Parties to the Ramsar Convention on Wetlands
Number
of Contracting Parties: 159
Number of sites designated for the List of
Wetlands of International Importance:
1847
Total surface area of designated sites: 181,365,679 hectares
| Country | |
Ramsar
sites |
Surface
area |
| Albania | |
3
|
83,062
|
| Algeria | |
42
|
2,959,615
|
| Antigua and Barbuda |
|
1
|
3,600
|
| Argentina | |
18
|
5,315,376
|
| Armenia | |
2
|
492,239
|
| Australia | |
65 |
7,510,177
|
| Austria | |
19
|
119,962
|
| Azerbaijan | |
2 |
99,560 |
| Bahamas | |
1
|
32,600
|
| Bahrain | |
2
|
6,810
|
| Bangladesh | |
2
|
611,200
|
| Barbados |
|
1
|
33
|
| Belarus | |
8
|
285,807
|
| Belgium | |
9
|
42,938
|
| Belize | |
2
|
23,592
|
| Benin | |
4 |
1,179,354 |
| Bolivia | |
8
|
6,518,073
|
| Bosnia and Herzegovina | |
3 |
56,779 |
| Botswana | |
1
|
5,537,400
|
| Brazil | |
8
|
6,434,086
|
| Bulgaria | |
10
|
20,306
|
| Burkina Faso | |
3
|
299,200
|
| Burundi |
|
1
|
1,000
|
| Cambodia | |
3
|
54,600
|
| Cameroon |
|
3
|
606,615
|
| Canada | |
37
|
13,066,675
|
| Cape Verde |
|
3
|
...
|
| Central African Republic |
|
1
|
101,300
|
| Chad | |
6 |
12,405,068 |
| Chile | |
9
|
159,154
|
| China | |
36
|
3,168,210
|
| Colombia | |
5
|
458,525
|
| Comoros | |
3
|
16,030
|
| Congo | |
7
|
8,454,259
|
| Costa Rica | |
11
|
510,050
|
| Côte d’Ivoire | |
6
|
127,344
|
| Croatia | |
4
|
86,579
|
| Cuba | |
6 |
1,188,411 |
| Cyprus | |
1 |
1,107 |
| Czech Republic | |
12
|
54,656
|
| Democratic Republic of Congo | |
3
|
7,435,624
|
| Denmark | |
38
|
2,078,823
|
| Djibouti |
|
1 |
3,000 |
| Dominican Republic |
|
1
|
20,000
|
| Ecuador | |
13
|
201,126
|
| Egypt | |
2
|
105,700
|
| El Salvador | |
3
|
125,769
|
| Equatorial Guinea |
|
3
|
136,000
|
| Estonia | |
12
|
225,960
|
| Fiji |
|
1
|
615
|
| Finland | |
49
|
799,518
|
| France | |
36
|
3,314,275
|
| Gabon | |
9
|
2,818,469
|
| Gambia | |
3
|
31,244
|
| Georgia | |
2
|
34,480
|
| Germany | |
34
|
868,226
|
| Ghana | |
6
|
178,410
|
| Greece | |
10
|
163,501
|
| Guatemala | |
7
|
628,592
|
| Guinea | |
16
|
6,422,361
|
| Guinea-Bissau | |
1
|
39,098
|
| Honduras | |
6
|
223,320
|
| Hungary | |
28
|
235,430
|
| Iceland | |
3
|
58,970
|
| India | |
25
|
677,131
|
| Indonesia | |
3
|
656,510
|
| Iran, Islamic Republic of | |
22
|
1,481,147
|
| Iraq |
|
1
|
137,700
|
| Ireland | |
45
|
66,994
|
| Israel | |
2
|
366
|
| Italy | |
51
|
60,052
|
| Jamaica | |
3
|
37,765
|
| Japan | |
37
|
131,027
|
| Jordan | |
1
|
7,372
|
| Kazakhstan |
|
4 |
531,141 |
| Kenya | |
5
|
101,849
|
| Kyrgyz Republic |
|
2 |
639,700 |
| Latvia | |
6
|
148,718
|
| Lebanon | |
4
|
?1075
|
| Lesotho | 1
|
434
|
|
| Liberia | 5
|
95,879 |
|
| Libyan Arab Jamahiriya | |
2 |
83 |
| Liechtenstein | |
1
|
101
|
| Lithuania | |
5
|
50,451
|
| Luxembourg | |
2
|
17,213
|
| Madagascar | |
6
|
787,555
|
| Malawi | |
1
|
224,800
|
| Malaysia | |
6
|
134,158 |
| Mali | |
1
|
4,119,500
|
| Malta | |
2
|
16
|
| Marshall Islands |
|
1
|
69,000
|
| Mauritania | |
4
|
1,240,600
|
| Mauritius | |
2 |
379 |
| Mexico | |
113
|
8,161,357
|
| Moldova | |
3 |
94,705 |
| Monaco | |
1
|
23
|
| Mongolia | |
11
|
1,439,530
|
| Montenegro |
|
1
|
20,000
|
| Morocco | |
24
|
272,010
|
| Mozambique |
|
1
|
688,000
|
| Myanmar |
|
1
|
256
|
| Namibia | |
4
|
629,600
|
| Nepal | |
9
|
34,455
|
| Netherlands | |
49
|
818,908
|
| New Zealand | |
6
|
55,512
|
| Nicaragua | |
8
|
405,691
|
| Niger | |
12
|
4,317,869
|
| Nigeria | |
11 |
1,076,728 |
| Norway | |
37
|
116,369
|
| Pakistan | |
19
|
1,343,627
|
| Palau |
|
1
|
493
|
| Panama | |
4
|
159,903
|
| Papua New Guinea | |
2
|
594,924
|
| Paraguay | |
6
|
785,970
|
| Peru | |
13
|
6,784,042
|
| Philippines | |
4
|
68,404
|
| Poland | |
13
|
145,075
|
| Portugal | |
28
|
86,581
|
| Republic of Korea | |
11
|
8,215
|
| Romania | |
4
|
682,166
|
| Russian Federation | |
35
|
10,323,767
|
| Rwanda |
|
1
|
...
|
| Saint Lucia |
|
2
|
85
|
| Samoa |
|
1
|
01.04.06 |
| Sao Tome and Principe |
|
1
|
23
|
| Senegal | |
4
|
99,720
|
| Serbia | |
9
|
55,627
|
| Seychelles |
|
1
|
121 |
| Sierra Leone | |
1 |
295,000 |
| Slovakia | |
14
|
40,697
|
| Slovenia | |
3
|
8,205
|
| South Africa | |
19
|
543,978
|
| Spain | |
63
|
281,768
|
| Sri Lanka | |
3
|
8,522
|
| Sudan |
|
4 |
8,189,600 |
| Suriname | |
1
|
12,000
|
| Sweden | |
51
|
514,506
|
| Switzerland | |
11
|
8,676
|
| Syrian Arab Republic | |
1
|
10,000
|
| Tajikistan | |
5 |
94,600 |
| Thailand | |
10
|
370,600
|
| The FYR of Macedonia | |
2
|
21,616
|
| Togo | |
4
|
1,210,400
|
| Trinidad & Tobago | |
3
|
15,919
|
| Tunisia | |
20
|
726,541
|
| Turkey | |
12
|
179,482
|
| Turkmenistan | 1
|
267,124 |
|
| Uganda | |
12
|
454,303
|
| Ukraine | |
33
|
744,651
|
| United Arab Emirates |
|
1
|
620
|
| United Kingdom | |
166
|
917,988 |
| United Republic of Tanzania | |
4 |
4,868,424 |
| United States of America | |
24
|
1,312,319
|
| Uruguay | |
2
|
424,904
|
| Uzbekistan | |
2 |
558,400 |
| Venezuela | |
5
|
263,636
|
| Viet Nam | |
2
|
25,759
|
| Yemen |
|
1
|
???
|
| Zambia | |
8
|
4,030,500
|
| former USSR | |
3
|
669,200
|
as of 29 May 2009