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Alaska is the largest state in the United States in terms of land area at 570,380 square miles (1,477,300 km 2), over twice (roughly 2.47 times) as large as Texas, the next largest state, and is the seventh largest country subdivision in the world, and the third largest in North America, about 20.4% smaller than Denmark's autonomous country of ...
The second largest state, Texas, has only 40% of the total area of the largest state, Alaska. Rhode Island is the smallest state by total area and land area. San Bernardino County is the largest county in the contiguous U.S. and is larger than each of the nine smallest states; it is larger than the four smallest states combined.
Alaska is more than twice the size of the second-largest U.S. state (Texas), and it is larger than the next three largest states (Texas, California, and Montana) combined. Alaska is the seventh largest subnational division in the world. If it was an independent nation, it would be the 18th largest country in the world; almost the same size as Iran.
Population density is defined as the population divided by land area. Data are from the US Census unless otherwise specified. Population data are for the year 2023 [2] and area data are for the year 2010. [3] Some population estimates for territories are from the United Nations Commission on Population and Development. [4]
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. All 193 member states of the United Nations plus the two observer states are given a rank ...
Sam Rayburn Reservoir Texas Hill Country. 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] It ranks 26th worldwide amongst country subdivisions by size.
Capital Largest city Sovereign state Area Population Rank within sovereign state Population density Map 1 Sakha: Yakutsk Russia: 3,083,523 km 2: 996,243 [1] 1st 0.32/km 2: 2 Western Australia: Perth Australia: 2,527,013 km 2: 2,685,165 [2] 1st 1/km 2: 3 Krasnoyarsk Krai: Krasnoyarsk Russia: 2,366,797 km 2 [note 2] 2,846,000 [1] 2nd 1.2/km 2: 4 ...
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.