You can Select the polygons with: `$area<10000` and [Eliminate selected polygons][1]: > Combines selected polygons of the input layer with certain adjacent > polygons by erasing their common boundary. The adjacent polygon can be > either the one with the largest or smallest area or the one sharing > the largest common boundary with the polygon to be eliminated. [![enter image description here][2]][2] [1]: https://docs.qgis.org/3.34/en/docs/user_manual/processing_algs/qgis/vectorgeometry.html#qgiseliminateselectedpolygons [2]: https://i.sstatic.net/6jVPZ.png