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List of U.S. states and territories by area

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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. The water area includes inland waters, coastal waters, the Great Lakes and territorial waters. Glaciers and intermittent bodies of water are counted as land area. Currently, the largest U.S. state is Alaska.

Area by state, federal district or territory

State / territory	Total area	Land area	Water area	National
share (%)	sq mi	km2	sq mi	km2	sq mi	km2	%	Alaska	Texas	California	Montana	New Mexico	Arizona	Nevada	Colorado	Oregon	Wyoming	Michigan	Minnesota	Utah	Idaho	Kansas	Nebraska	South Dakota	Washington	North Dakota	Oklahoma	Missouri	Florida	Wisconsin	Georgia (U.S. state)	Illinois	Iowa	New York	North Carolina	Arkansas	Alabama	Louisiana	Mississippi	Pennsylvania	Ohio	Virginia	Tennessee	Kentucky	Indiana	Maine	South Carolina	West Virginia	Maryland	Hawaii	Massachusetts	Vermont	New Hampshire	New Jersey	Connecticut	Puerto Rico	Delaware	Northern Mariana Islands	Rhode Island	U.S. Virgin Islands	American Samoa	Guam	District of Columbia	**{{cite web	url=https://www.census.gov/content/dam/Census/library/publications/2003/dec/phc3-us-pt1.pdf	**	**	**	****
665,384	1,723,337	570,641	1,477,953	94,743	245,383	14.2%
268,596	695,662	261,232	676,587	7,365	19,075	2.7%
163,695	423,967	155,779	403,466	7,916	20,501	4.8%
147,040	380,831	145,546	376,962	1,494	3,869	1.0%
121,590	314,917	121,298	314,161	292	757	0.2%
113,990	295,234	113,594	294,207	396	1,026	0.3%
110,572	286,380	109,781	284,332	791	2,048	0.7%
104,094	269,601	103,642	268,431	452	1,170	0.4%
98,379	254,799	95,988	248,608	2,391	6,191	2.4%
97,813	253,335	97,093	251,470	720	1,864	0.7%
96,714	250,487	56,539	146,435	40,175	104,052	41.5%
86,936	225,163	79,627	206,232	7,309	18,930	8.4%
84,897	219,882	82,170	212,818	2,727	7,064	3.2%
83,569	216,443	82,643	214,045	926	2,398	1.1%
82,278	213,100	81,759	211,754	520	1,346	0.6%
77,348	200,330	76,824	198,974	524	1,356	0.7%
77,116	199,729	75,811	196,350	1,305	3,379	1.7%
71,298	184,661	66,456	172,119	4,842	12,542	6.8%
70,698	183,108	69,001	178,711	1,698	4,397	2.4%
69,899	181,037	68,595	177,660	1,304	3,377	1.9%
69,707	180,540	68,742	178,040	965	2,501	1.4%
65,758	170,312	53,625	138,887	12,133	31,424	18.5%
65,496	169,635	54,158	140,268	11,339	29,367	17.3%
59,425	153,910	57,513	148,959	1,912	4,951	3.2%
57,914	149,995	55,519	143,793	2,395	6,202	4.1%
56,273	145,746	55,857	144,669	416	1,077	0.7%
54,555	141,297	47,126	122,057	7,429	19,240	13.6%
53,819	139,391	48,618	125,920	5,201	13,471	9.7%
53,179	137,732	52,035	134,771	1,143	2,961	2.1%
52,420	135,767	50,645	131,171	1,775	4,597	3.4%
52,378	135,659	43,204	111,898	9,174	23,761	17.5%
48,432	125,438	46,923	121,531	1,509	3,907	3.1%
46,054	119,280	44,743	115,883	1,312	3,397	2.8%
44,826	116,098	40,861	105,829	3,965	10,269	8.8%
42,775	110,787	39,490	102,279	3,285	8,508	7.7%
42,144	109,153	41,235	106,798	909	2,355	2.2%
40,408	104,656	39,486	102,269	921	2,387	2.3%
36,420	94,326	35,826	92,789	593	1,537	1.6%
35,380	91,633	30,843	79,883	4,537	11,750	12.8%
32,020	82,933	30,061	77,857	1,960	5,076	6.1%
24,230	62,756	24,038	62,259	192	497	0.8%
12,406	32,131	9,707	25,142	2,699	6,990	21.8%
10,932	28,313	6,423	16,635	4,509	11,678	41.2%
10,554	27,336	7,800	20,202	2,754	7,134	26.1%
9,616	24,906	9,217	23,871	400	1,035	4.2%
9,349	24,214	8,953	23,187	397	1,027	4.2%
8,723	22,591	7,354	19,047	1,368	3,544	15.7%
5,543	14,357	4,842	12,542	701	1,816	12.6%
5,325	13,791	3,424	8,868	1,901	4,924	35.7%
2,489	6,446	1,949	5,047	540	1,399	21.7%
1,976	5,117	182	472	1,793	4,644	90.7%
1,545	4,001	1,034	2,678	511	1,324	33.1%
733	1,898	134	348	599	1,550	81.7%
581	1,505	76	198	505	1,307	86.9%
571	1,478	210	543	361	935	63.2%
68	177	61	158	7	19	10.3%
publisher=United States Census Bureau	page=1 (Table 1)	date=April 2004	access-date=December 28, 2023	archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20170203055053/https://www.census.gov/content/dam/Census/library/publications/2003/dec/phc3-us-pt1.pdf	Areas were not published in the 2010 census, unlike previous years, as the U.S. Census Bureau no longer collects data on the Minor Outlying Islands.{{cite web	url=https://www2.census.gov/library/publications/decennial/2010/cph-2/cph-2-1.pdf	publisher=United States Census Bureau	pages=V–2, 1 & 41 (Tables 1 & 18)	date=September 2012	access-date=February 7, 2014}}	group=lower-alpha}}	16	41	16	41	0	0	0.0%
3,120,428	8,081,869	2,954,843	7,653,006	165,589	428,865	5.3%
3,796,676	9,833,342	3,531,846	9,147,436	264,834	685,907	7.0%
3,796,744	9,833,519	3,531,907	9,147,594	264,841	685,926	7.0%
3,805,927	9,857,306	3,535,932	9,158,022	269,995	699,284	7.1%

File:US States by Total Area.svg|U.S. states by total area File:US States by Total Land Area.svg|U.S. states by land area File:US States by Water Area.svg|U.S. states by water area File:US States by Water Percentage.svg|U.S. states by water percentage File:Map of USA AK full.png|Alaska is the largest state by total area, land area, and water area. It is the seventh-largest country division in the world. File:Alaska area compared to conterminous US.svg|The area of Alaska is of the area of the United States and equivalent to of the area of the contiguous United States. File:Texas in United States.svg|The second largest state, Texas, has only of the total area of the largest state, Alaska. File:Rhode Island in United States (zoom) (extra close).svg|Rhode Island is the smallest state by total area and land area. File:Map of California highlighting San Bernardino County.svg|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. File:Michigan.svg|Michigan is second (after Alaska) in water area, and first in water percentage. File:STS-95 Florida From Space.jpg|Florida is mostly a peninsula, and has the third-largest water area and seventh-largest water area percentage.

Notes

References

(2010). "State Area Measurements and Internal Point Coordinates".
"Census 2000 Geographic Terms and Concepts". U.S. Census Bureau.

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