Ask someone to name the body's largest organ, and they might guess the brain, the lungs, maybe even the liver. But the real answer is both less intuitive and much more visible — it's your skin.

What is the largest organ in your body? This is the biggest of the human body's 70 organs. Your body owes its success to the work of over 70 organs. This one is the biggest.

The skin is by far the body’s biggest organ. Depending on your height and body mass, it covers an area of around 1.5 to 2 square metres and weighs between 3.5 and 10 kilograms – around 15 per cent of ...