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This list ranks the top 150 U.S. cities (incorporated places) by 2024 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).
Unlike most states, Alaska is divided into boroughs and census areas that serve as county-equivalents for the Census Bureau. If included with the remainder of the counties and county-equivalent areas in the United States, Alaska's boroughs and census areas would occupy the largest 11.
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.
At 1,228.9 square miles (3,183 km 2) as of 2023, [6] Lycoming County is the largest county by land area in Pennsylvania. [2] Lycoming County is larger than Rhode Island, the smallest U.S. state, which has a land area of 1,033.9 square miles (2,678 km 2). [7]
King Ranch is the largest ranch in the United States. At some 825,000 acres (3,340 km 2; 1,289 sq mi) [3] it is larger than both the land area of Rhode Island and the area of the European country Luxembourg. [4]
The population density of the United States is lower than that of many other countries because of the United States' large land area. There are large, sparsely populated areas in parts of the US, like the east-to-west stretch extending from the outskirts of Seattle all the way to Minneapolis , or the north-to-south portion from northern Montana ...
City/municipality Municipality status Country Total area (km 2) Population Population density (per km 2) Sermersooq [1] Municipality Greenland: 575,300 24,148 0.04 Avannaata [1] Municipality Greenland: 522,700 10,920 0.02 Nagqu [2] Prefecture-level City China: 353,010 504,838 1 Hulunbuir [3] Prefecture-level City China: 234,545 2,242,875 10 ...
Comprising Brantley, Glynn, and McIntosh counties, the Brunswick metropolitan area is located along the Lower Coastal Plain.According to the U.S. Census Bureau, the MSA has a total area of 1,300 square miles (3,400 km 2); if it were a U.S. state or territory, the Brunswick metropolitan area would be larger than the U.S. Virgin Islands, but smaller than Rhode Island.