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Rank County State County seat Total area Land area 1 San Bernardino County: California: San Bernardino: 20,105.32 sq mi (52,072.5 km 2) : 20,052.5 sq mi (51,936 km 2) : 2
10. Palmyra Atoll, U.S. Minor Outlying Islands. 20 [note 3] Los Angeles in Los Angeles County, California, the most populous county in the United States. Swains Island, American Samoa — the least-populous inhabited county or county-equivalent in the United States. Loving County, Texas, the least populous county in the main 50-states in the ...
The newest county in the United States is the city and county of Broomfield, Colorado, ... with 72,033 persons per square mile (27,812 persons/km 2) in 2015.
This is a list of the 100 most populous of the 3,144 counties in the United States based on the national decennial US census conducted on April 1, 2020, and vintage Census population estimates for July 1, 2023. [1] Many of the counties on the list include major cities or metropolitan areas in all parts of the United States.
This list ranks the top 150 U.S. cities (incorporated places) by 2023 land area. Total areas including water are also given, but when ranked by total area, a number of coastal cities appear disproportionately larger. San Francisco is an extreme example: water makes up nearly 80% of its total area of 232 square miles (601 km 2).
Benjamin Franklin (1706–1790), writer, inventor, philosopher, publisher, and a Founding Father of the United States: 94.23/sq mi (36.38/km 2) 24,782: 263 sq mi (681 km 2) Fulton County: 121: Atlanta: 1853: DeKalb County + the former Campbell and Milton counties and a portion of Cobb County: Hamilton Fulton (1781–1833), a Scottish civil and ...
2,313 (Robertson) – 772,144 (Jefferson) Areas. 100 square miles (260 km 2) (Robertson) – 788 square miles (2,040 km 2) (Pike) Government. County government. There are 120 counties in the U.S. Commonwealth of Kentucky. Despite ranking 37th in size by area, Kentucky has 120 counties, fourth among states (including Virginia's independent ...
Lewis Cass (1782–1866), a senator from Michigan, who had favored the annexation of Texas to the United States. Named Davis County 1861-1871 : 28,659: 938 sq mi (2,429 km 2) Castro County: 069: Dimmitt: 1876: Bexar County: Henri Castro (1786–1865), a French consul general for the Republic of Texas and founder of a colony in Texas 7,227: 898 ...