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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.
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.
Kentucky is the 37th largest state in terms of total area, the 36th largest in land area, and ranks 26th in population. Originally a part of Virginia, in 1792 it became the 15th state to join the Union. Kentucky is designated a commonwealth by the Kentucky Constitution and is formally known as the "Commonwealth of Kentucky." [1]
Kentucky is subdivided into 120 counties, the largest being Pike County at 787.6 square miles (2,040 km 2), and the most populous being Jefferson County (which coincides with the Louisville Metro governmental area) with 772,144 residents as of 2023.
Sacramento is located in southern McLean County at (37.416489, -87.267839). [8] The city is concentrated around the intersection of Kentucky Route 81/Kentucky Route 85 (Main Street) and Kentucky Route 254 (2nd Street), northeast of Madisonville. KY 81 and KY 85 converge in the northeastern part of town, and diverge just south of the city.
must have a land area of at least 400 square miles (1,036 km 2); must have a population of at least 12,000 people; must not by its creation reduce the land area of an existing county to less than 400 square miles; must not by its creation reduce the population of an existing county to fewer than 12,000 people;
Kentucky has both the largest artificial lake east of the Mississippi in water volume (Lake Cumberland) and surface area (Kentucky Lake). Kentucky Lake's 2,064 miles (3,322 km) of shoreline, 160,300 acres (64,900 hectares) of water surface, and 4,008,000 acre-feet (4.9 billion cubic meters) of flood storage are the most of any lake in the TVA ...
The largest state by area is Alaska, encompassing 665,384 square miles (1,723,340 km 2), while the smallest is Rhode Island, encompassing 1,545 square miles (4,000 km 2). The most recent states to be admitted, Alaska and Hawaii, were admitted in 1959. The largest territory by population is Puerto Rico, with a population of 3,285,874 people ...