In a couple of controversial (though not unusual) decisions, FIFA awarded the 2018 and 2022 World Cups to Russia and Qatar respectively. This would make these countries the biggest and the smallest FIFA members (by area) to host the World Cup.
Until then, which FIFA members will be the biggest and smallest World Cup hosts?
update: 13 Dec, 3 pm: there has been a correction to the earlier printed answer - please open the answer to see it.
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The biggest is the United States of America
Brazil - who hosted the Cup in 1950, and will do so again in 2014. The smallest is Switzerland
South Korea.
(Thanks to Aniket K for pointing out the earlier errors - can't believe I got both answers wrong! Infinite Hounds.)