What is the second-largest country in the world by total area?

What is the largest country by land area in Central Asia? What is the largest country by land area bordering the Arctic Ocean? Which country is the largest by land area among the BRICS nations? What is the largest country by land area bordering the Black Sea? What is the tenth-largest country in the world by land area? Which country is the largest in South Asia by land area? What is the eleventh-largest country in the world by land area? What is the largest country in the European Union by land area?