List of U.S. states by area - AbsoluteAstronomy.com

This is a complete list of the states of the United States
U.S. state
A U.S. state is any one of the 50 federated states of the United States of America that share sovereignty with the federal government. Because of this shared sovereignty, an American is a citizen both of the federal entity and of his or her state of domicile. Four states use the official title of...

and its major territories ordered by total area, land area, and water area. The water area figures include inland, coastal, Great Lakes

Great Lakes

The Great Lakes are a collection of freshwater lakes located in northeastern North America, on the Canada – United States border. Consisting of Lakes Superior, Michigan, Huron, Erie, and Ontario, they form the largest group of freshwater lakes on Earth by total surface, coming in second by volume...

, and territorial waters

Territorial waters

Territorial waters, or a territorial sea, as defined by the 1982 United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea, is a belt of coastal waters extending at most from the baseline of a coastal state...

. Glaciers and intermittent water features are counted as land area.

#	State	total (sq mi)	(km²)	land (sq mi)	(km²)	water (sq mi)	(km²)	% water	comparable country (total area)
	Alaska	663267.26	1,717,854	571951.26	1,481,347	91316	236,507	13.77	Libya
	Republic of Texas	268580.82	695,621	261797.12	678,051	6783.7	17,570	2.53	Myanmar
	California	163695.57	423,970	155959.34	403,933	7736.23	20,037	4.73	Iraq
	Montana	147042.4	380,838	145552.43	376,979	1489.96	3,859	1.01	Japan
	New Mexico	121589.48	314,915	121355.53	314,309	233.96	606	0.19	Poland
	Arizona	113998.3	295,254	113634.57	294,312	363.73	942	0.32	Philippines
	Nevada	110560.71	286,351	109825.99	284,448	734.71	1,903	0.66	Burkina Faso
	Colorado	104093.57	269,601	103717.53	268,627	376.04	974	0.36	New Zealand
	Oregon	98380.64	254,805	95996.79	248,631	2383.85	6,174	2.42	United Kingdom
	Wyoming	97813.56	253,336	97100.4	251,489	713.16	1,847	0.73	Ecuador
	Michigan	96716.11	250,494	56803.82	147,121	39912.28	103,372	41.27	Guinea
	Minnesota	86938.87	225,171	79610.08	206,189	7328.79	18,981	8.43	Guyana
	Utah	84898.83	219,887	82143.65	212,751	2755.18	7,136	3.25	Guyana
	Idaho	83570.08	216,446	82747.21	214,314	822.87	2,131	0.98	Guyana
	Kansas	82276.84	213,096	81814.88	211,900	461.96	1,196	0.56	Guyana
	Nebraska	77353.73	200,345	76872.41	199,099	481.31	1,247	0.62	Kyrgyzstan
	South Dakota	77116.49	199,731	75884.64	196,540	1231.85	3,190	1.60	Kyrgyzstan
	Washington	71299.64	184,665	66544.06	172,348	4755.58	12,317	6.67	Syria
	North Dakota	70699.79	183,112	68975.93	178,647	1723.86	4,465	2.44	Syria
	Oklahoma	69898.19	181,035	68667.06	177,847	1231.13	3,189	1.76	Cambodia
	Missouri	69704.31	180,533	68885.93	178,414	818.39	2,120	1.17	Cambodia
	Florida	65754.59	170,304	53926.82	139,670	11827.77	30,634	17.99	Uruguay
	Wisconsin	65497.82	169,639	54310.1	140,663	11187.72	28,976	17.08	Suriname
		59424.77	153,909	57906.14	149,976	1518.63	3,933	2.56	Nepal
	Illinois	57914.38	149,998	55583.58	143,961	2330.79	6,037	4.02	Nepal
	Iowa	56271.55	145,743	55869.36	144,701	402.2	1,042	0.71	Nepal
	New York	54556	141,299	47213.79	122,283	7342.22	19,016	13.46	Tajikistan
	North Carolina	53818.51	139,389	48710.88	126,161	5107.63	13,229	9.49	Tajikistan
	Arkansas	53178.62	137,732	52068.17	134,856	1110.45	2,876	2.09	Tajikistan
	Alabama	52419.02	135,765	50744	131,426	1675.01	4,338	3.20	Greece
	Louisiana	51839.7	134,264	43561.85	112,825	8277.85	21,440	15.97	Greece
	Mississippi	48430.19	125,434	46906.96	121,488	1523.24	3,945	3.15	North Korea
	Pennsylvania	46055.24	119,283	44816.61	116,074	1238.63	3,208	2.69	Malawi
	Ohio	44824.9	116,096	40948.38	106,056	3876.53	10,040	8.65	Eritrea
	Virginia	42774.2	110,785	39594.07	102,548	3180.13	8,236	7.43	Kingdom of Bulgaria
	Tennessee	42143.27	109,151	41217.12	106,752	926.15	2,399	2.20	Guatemala
	Kentucky	40409.02	104,659	39728.18	102,896	680.85	1,763	1.68	Iceland
	Indiana	36417.73	94,321	35866.9	92,895	550.83	1,427	1.51	Hungary
	Maine	35384.65	91,646	30861.55	79,931	4523.1	11,715	12.78	Portugal
	South Carolina	32020.2	82,932	30109.47	77,983	1910.73	4,949	5.97	United Arab Emirates
	West Virginia	24229.76	62,755	24077.73	62,361	152.03	394	0.63	Latvia
	Maryland	12406.68	32,133	9773.82	25,314	2632.86	6,819	21.22	Belgium
	Hawaii	10930.98	28,311	6422.62	16,635	4508.36	11,677	41.24	Equatorial Guinea
	Massachusetts	10554.57	27,336	7840.02	20,306	2714.55	7,031	25.72	Haiti
	Vermont	9614.26	24,901	9249.56	23,956	364.7	945	3.79	Republic of Macedonia
	New Hampshire	9349.94	24,216	8968.1	23,227	381.84	989	4.08	Djibouti
	New Jersey	8721.3	22,588	7417.34	19,211	1303.96	3,377	14.95	Belize
	Connecticut	5543.33	14,357	4844.8	12,548	698.53	1,809	12.60	The Bahamas
	Delaware	2489.27	6,447	1953.56	5,060	535.71	1,387	21.52	Brunei
	Rhode Island	1545.05	4,002	1044.93	2,706	500.12	1,295	32.37	Cape Verde
	Washington, D.C.	68.34	177	61.4	159	6.94	18	10.16	Marshall Islands
TOTAL	50 states + DC	3794083.06	9,826,630	3537438.44	9,161,923	256644.62	664,707	6.76	Mainland China
	Puerto Rico	5325	13,792	3425	8,871	1900	4,921	35.68	Kingdom of Montenegro
	Northern Mariana Islands	1975	5,115	179	464	1796	4,652	90.93	Trinidad and Tobago
	United States Virgin Islands	737	1,909	134	347	604	1,564	81.87	Mauritius
	American Samoa	584	1,513	77	199	506	1,311	86.75	Mauritius
	Guam	571	1,479	210	544	361	935	63.22	Mauritius
	Minor Outlying Islands United States Minor Outlying Islands The United States Minor Outlying Islands, a statistical designation defined by the International Organization for Standardization's ISO 3166-1 code, consists of nine United States insular areas in the Pacific Ocean and Caribbean Sea: Baker Island, Howland Island, Jarvis Island, Johnston Atoll,...	16	41	16	41	0	0	0.00	Tuvalu
TOTAL	all US territory	3803290	9,850,476	3541479	9,172,389	261811	678,087	6.88	Canada

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