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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.
The geography of Texas is diverse and large. Occupying about 7% of the total water and land area of the U.S., [1] it is the second largest state after Alaska, and is the southernmost part of the Great Plains, which end in the south against the folded Sierra Madre Oriental of Mexico.
New York was first settled around 1856 by James C. Walker, Davis Reynolds, Jesse M. Forester, and A. M. Otts at a location south of the present site. The present site was settled in 1873. The community was reportedly named either by T. B. Herndon as a joke or by Reynolds because of his hopes for the town's future. [2]
Imagine a metro area with nearly 34 million people. This Texas metropolitan area will be larger than New York, L.A. by year 2100, study shows Skip to main content
Covering 268,596 square miles (695,660 km 2), it had over 31 million residents as of 2024, [5] and it is the second-largest state by both area and population. Texas is nicknamed the Lone Star State for its former status as an independent republic, the Republic of Texas. [10] Spain was the first European country to claim and control Texas.
In 1790, George Scriba, a merchant of New York City and a German by birth, purchased 500,000 acres (2,000 km 2) of land lying between Oneida Lake and Lake Ontario, for the sum of $80,000 (approximately $870,000 in today's money).
On July 21, 2023, the OMB delineated seven combined statistical areas, 13 metropolitan statistical areas and 14 micropolitan statistical areas in New York. [1] As of 2023, the largest of these is the New York-Newark, NY-NJ-CT-PA CSA , which includes New York City and its surrounding suburbs; with over 21 million people, it is the largest ...
The contiguous United States occupies an area of 3,119,884.69 square miles (8,080,464.3 km 2). 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 ...