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This is a complete list of all 50 U.S. states, its federal district (Washington, D.C.) and its major territories ordered by total area, land area and water area. [1] The water area includes inland waters, coastal waters, the Great Lakes and territorial waters.
This is a complete list of the U.S. states, federal district, and its major territories ordered by total area, land area, and water area.
50 states ranked by size. Alaska is the largest and Rhode Island is the smallest state in terms of total area.
This page lists the total size (land plus water) and the land area for the 50 US states. Shows the list of US states by size. Data is shown both for overall (land plus water) size and land area.
US States By Size. The United States of America is an immense federal republic spanning from the southern half of Northern America to Alaska and Hawaii in the Pacific Ocean. It comprises a total of 50 states, with 49 located within mainland North America and one situated in the Pacific Ocean.
Below is a list of the 50 U.S. States by area size, from the largest to the smallest state of the United States. U.S. States compared by area size with nation-states. List of states and territories in total area in square kilometers (km²) and square miles (sq mi).
2010. The table below provides land, water and total area measurements for the 50 states, the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico and the Island Areas. The area measurements were derived from the Census Bureau's Master Address File/Topologically Integrated Geographic Encoding and Referencing (MAF/TIGER®) database.
Not surprisingly, Alaska and Texas are the largest states by area, although Alaska, at 665,384 mi², is substantially larger than Texas at 268,596 mi². Alaska is made up of 85.76% land, while water covers an area of 94,743 mi² (the highest in the U.S.).
At 665,384 square miles (1,723,337 square km), it is more than double the size of the second largest state, Texas, and more than 400 times the size of the smallest, Rhode Island. How do the other states stack up? Find out in the table below, which ranks the 50 U.S. states by total area.
Ranking all 50 states by size in square miles including overall area, land area, and water area.