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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
The United States is the world's third-largest country by total area behind Russia and Canada. [d] [180] [181] The 48 contiguous states and the District of Columbia occupy a combined area of 3,119,885 square miles (8,080,470 km 2).
San Francisco is an extreme example: water makes up nearly 80% of its total area of 232 square miles (601 km 2). In many cases an incorporated place is geographically large because its municipal government has merged with the government of the surrounding county.
This is a list of the 50 states, the 5 territories, and the District of Columbia of the United States of America by population density, population size, and land area. It also includes a sortable table of density by states, territories, divisions, and regions by population rank and land area, and a sortable table for density by states ...
The term "United States," when used in the geographic sense, refers to the contiguous United States (sometimes referred to as the Lower 48, including the District of Columbia not as a state), Alaska, Hawaii, the five insular territories of Puerto Rico, Northern Mariana Islands, U.S. Virgin Islands, Guam, American Samoa, and minor outlying possessions. [1]
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.
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.
Square miles should not be confused with miles square, a square region with each side having a length of the value given. For example, a region which is 20 miles square (20 miles × 20 miles) has an area of 400 sq mi; a rectangle of measuring 10 miles × 40 miles also has an area of 400 sq mi, but is not 20 miles square.