diff --git a/PythonAPI/pycocotools/coco.py b/PythonAPI/pycocotools/coco.py
index d3ff79d..c5e174b 100644
--- a/PythonAPI/pycocotools/coco.py
+++ b/PythonAPI/pycocotools/coco.py
@@ -148,7 +148,7 @@ def getAnnIds(self, imgIds=[], catIds=[], areaRng=[], iscrowd=None):
             else:
                 anns = self.dataset['annotations']
             anns = anns if len(catIds)  == 0 else [ann for ann in anns if ann['category_id'] in catIds]
-            anns = anns if len(areaRng) == 0 else [ann for ann in anns if ann['area'] > areaRng[0] and ann['area'] < areaRng[1]]
+            anns = anns if len(areaRng) == 0 else [ann for ann in anns if ann['area'] >= areaRng[0] and ann['area'] < areaRng[1]]
         if not iscrowd == None:
             ids = [ann['id'] for ann in anns if ann['iscrowd'] == iscrowd]
         else: