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Land, water and total area by U.S. state, district or territory, sortable State / territory Total area Land area Water area sq mi km 2 sq mi km 2 sq mi km 2 Alaska 665,384
Texas covers a total area of 268,581 square miles (695,622 km 2).The longest straight-line distance is from the northwest corner of the panhandle to the Rio Grande river just below Brownsville, 801 miles (1,289 km). [1]
Texas is the second-largest U.S. state by area, after Alaska, and the largest state within the contiguous United States, at 268,820 square miles (696,200 km 2). If it were an independent country, Texas would be the 39th-largest . [ 150 ]
Area of Texas: 268,581 square miles (695,622 km 2) Atlas of Texas; Places in Texas ... History of Sugar Land, Texas; History of Texas, by subject
Of this area, 2,959,064.44 square miles (7,663,941.7 km 2) is actual land, composing 83.65 percent of the country's total land area, and is comparable in size to the area of Australia. [9] Officially, 160,820.25 square miles (416,522.5 km 2) of the contiguous United States is water area, composing 62.66 percent of the nation's total water area.
"A league and a labor" (4,605.5 acres; 18.638 km 2) was a common first land grant [4] and consisted of a league of land away from the river plus one extra labor of good riparian (river-situated) land. A headright of this much land was granted to "all persons [heads of families] except Africans and their descendants and Indians living in Texas ...
From 1989 through 1996, the total area of the US was listed as 9,372,610 km 2 (3,618,780 sq mi) (land and inland water only). The listed total area changed to 9,629,091 km 2 (3,717,813 sq mi) in 1997 (Great Lakes area and coastal waters added), to 9,631,418 km 2 (3,718,711 sq mi) in 2004, to 9,631,420 km 2 (3,718,710 sq mi) in 2006, and to ...
Dymaxion map of the world with the 30 largest countries and territories by area. This is a list of the world's countries and their dependencies, ranked by total area, including land and water. This list includes entries that are not limited to those in the ISO 3166-1 standard, which covers sovereign states and dependent territories.