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National (U.S.) States: Size in Square Miles

North American continent; photo by color line on Flickr (use permitted with attribution).

States by Size in Square Miles

U.S. states listed in order by size in square miles of land area - Alaska to Rhode Island. The land area of the entire United States is 3,531,905 square miles.

Alaska is by far the biggest state - you could fit Rhode Island (the smallest state) into Alaska several hundred times, yet Rhode Island has a significantly larger population according to the U.S. Census Bureau's estimated population figures for 2017, with Alaska at 739,795 compared to Rhode Island's 1,059,639 people.

  State Square Miles (Land Area)
1 Alaska 570,641
2 Texas 261,914
3 California 155,973
4 Montana 145,556
5 New Mexico 121,365
6 Arizona 113,642
7 Nevada 109,806
8 Colorado 103,730
9 Wyoming 97,105
10 Oregon 96,003
11 Idaho 82,751
12 Utah 82,168
13 Kansas 81,823
14 Minnesota 79,617
15 Nebraska 76,878
16 South Dakota 75,898
17 North Dakota 68,994
18 Missouri 68,898
19 Oklahoma 68,679
20 Washington 66,582
21 Georgia 57,919
22 Michigan 56,539
23 Iowa 55,875
24 Illinois 55,593
25 Wisconsin 54,314
26 Florida 53,997
27 Arkansas 52,075
28 Alabama 50,750
29 North Carolina 48,718
30 New York 47,224
31 Mississippi 46,914
32 Pennsylvania 44,820
33 Louisiana 43,566
34 Tennessee 41,220
35 Ohio 40,953
36 Kentucky 39,732
37 Virginia 39,598
38 Indiana 35,870
39 Maine 30,865
40 South Carolina 30,111
41 West Virginia 24,087
42 Maryland 9,775
43 Vermont 9,249
44 New Hampshire 8,969
45 Massachusetts 7,838
46 New Jersey 7,419
47 Hawaii 6,423
48 Connecticut 4,845
49 Delaware 1,955
50 Rhode Island 1,034

 

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