List of U.S. states by area

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This is a complete list of the states of the United States ordered by total area, land area, and water area.

Contents 1 Total area 2 Land area 3 Water area 4 References

[edit] Total area

Rank	State	km²	miles²
1	Alaska	1,717,854	663,267
2	Texas	696,621	268,581
3	California	423,970	163,696
4	Montana	380,838	147,042
5	New Mexico	314,915	121,589
6	Arizona	295,254	113,998
7	Nevada	286,351	110,561
8	Colorado	269,601	104,094
9	Oregon	254,805	98,381
10	Wyoming	253,348	97,818 [1]
11	Michigan	253,266	97,790
12	Minnesota	225,171	86,939
13	Utah	219,887	84,899
14	Idaho	216,446	83,570
15	Kansas	213,096	82,277
16	Nebraska	200,345	77,354
17	South Dakota	199,731	77,116
18	Washington	184,665	71,300
19	North Dakota	183,112	70,700
20	Oklahoma	181,035	69,898
21	Missouri	180,533	69,704
22	Florida	170,304	65,755
23	Wisconsin	169,639	65,498
24	Georgia	153,909	59,425
25	Illinois	149,998	57,914
26	Iowa	145,743	56,272
27	New York	141,299	54,556
28	North Carolina	139,389	53,819
29	Arkansas	137,732	53,179
30	Alabama	135,765	52,419
31	Louisiana	134,264	51,840
32	Mississippi	125,434	48,430
33	Pennsylvania	119,283	46,055
34	Ohio	116,096	44,825
35	Virginia	110,785	42,774
36	Tennessee	109,151	42,143
37	Kentucky	104,659	40,409
38	Indiana	94,321	36,418
39	Maine	91,646	35,385
40	South Carolina	82,932	32,020
41	West Virginia	62,755	24,230
42	Maryland	32,133	12,407
43	Hawaii	28,311	10,931
44	Massachusetts	27,336	10,555
45	Vermont	24,901	9,614
46	New Hampshire	24,216	9,350
47	New Jersey	22,588	8,721
48	Connecticut	14,357	5,543
49	Delaware	6,447	2,489
50	Rhode Island	4,002	1,545

[edit] Land area

Rank	State	km²	miles²
1	Alaska	1,481,347	567,400
2	Texas	678,051	261,797
3	California	403,933	155,959
4	Montana	376,979	145,552
5	New Mexico	314,309	121,356
6	Arizona	294,312	113,635
7	Nevada	284,448	109,826
8	Colorado	268,627	103,718
9	Wyoming	251,489	97,105
10	Oregon	248,631	95,997
11	Idaho	214,314	82,747
12	Utah	212,751	82,144
13	Kansas	211,900	81,815
14	Minnesota	206,189	79,610
15	Nebraska	199,099	76,872
16	South Dakota	196,540	75,885
17	North Dakota	178,647	68,976
18	Missouri	178,414	68,886
19	Oklahoma	177,847	68,667
20	Washington	172,348	66,544
21	Michigan	150,504	58,110
22	Georgia	149,976	57,906
23	Iowa	144,701	55,869
24	Illinois	143,961	55,584
25	Wisconsin	140,663	54,310
26	Florida	139,670	53,927
27	Arkansas	134,856	52,068
28	Alabama	131,426	50,744
29	North Carolina	126,161	48,711
30	New York	122,283	47,214
31	Mississippi	121,488	46,907
32	Pennsylvania	116,074	44,817
33	Louisiana	112,825	43,562
34	Tennessee	106,752	41,217
35	Ohio	106,056	40,948
36	Kentucky	102,896	39,728
37	Virginia	102,548	39,594
38	Indiana	92,895	35,867
39	Maine	79,931	30,862
40	South Carolina	77,983	30,109
41	West Virginia	62,361	24,230
42	Maryland	25,314	9,774
43	Vermont	23,956	9,250
44	New Hampshire	23,227	8,968
45	Massachusetts	20,306	7,840
46	New Jersey	19,211	7,417
47	Hawaii	16,635	6,423
48	Connecticut	12,548	4,845
49	Delaware	6,030	1,954
50	Rhode Island	2,706	1,045

[edit] Water area

Rank	State	km²	miles²	Percentage Water
1	Alaska	236,507	91,316	13.77
2	Michigan	103,289	39,881	41.27
3	Florida	30,634	11,828	17.99
4	Wisconsin	28,977	11,188	17.08
5	Louisiana	21,440	8,278	15.95
6	California	20,037	7,736	4.73
7	New York	19,016	7,342	13.46
8	Minnesota	18,981	7,329	8.43
9	Texas	17,570	6,784	2.53
10	North Carolina	13,229	5,108	9.49
11	Washington	12,317	4,756	6.67
12	Maine	11,715	4,523	12.78
13	Hawaii	11,677	4,508	41.24
14	Ohio	10,040	3,877	8.65
15	Virginia	8,236	3,180	7.43
16	Utah	7,136	2,755	3.25
17	Massachusetts	7,031	2,715	25.72
18	Maryland	6,819	2,633	21.22
19	Oregon	6,174	2,384	2.42
20	Illinois	6,037	2,331	4.02
21	South Carolina	4,949	1,911	5.97
22	North Dakota	4,465	1,724	2.44
23	Alabama	4,338	1,675	3.20
24	Mississippi	3,945	1,523	3.15
25	Georgia	3,933	1,519	2.56
26	Montana	3,859	1,490	1.01
27	New Jersey	3,377	1,304	14.95
28	Pennsylvania	3,208	1,239	2.69
29	South Dakota	3,190	1,232	1.60
30	Oklahoma	3,189	1,231	1.76
31	Arkansas	2,876	1,110	2.09
32	Tennessee	2,399	926	2.20
33	Idaho	2,131	823	0.98
34	Missouri	2,120	818	1.17
35	Nevada	1,903	735	0.66
36	Wyoming	1,847	713	0.73
37	Connecticut	1,809	699	12.60
38	Kentucky	1,763	681	1.68
39	Indiana	1,427	551	1.51
40	Delaware	1,387	536	21.52
41	Rhode Island	1,295	500	32.37
42	Nebraska	1,247	481	0.62
43	Kansas	1,196	462	0.56
44	Iowa	1,042	402	0.71
45	New Hampshire	989	382	4.08
46	Colorado	974	376	0.36
47	Vermont	945	365	3.79
48	Arizona	942	364	0.32
49	New Mexico	606	234	0.19
50	West Virginia	394	152	0.63

Alaska is the largest state in total area, land area, and water area.

Despite being the second largest state, Texas is only 40% of the total area of largest state, Alaska.

Montana is larger than every state it borders; only Alaska and Wyoming have a lower population density.

Sunset on Lake Michigan. Michigan is second behind Alaska in water area.

[edit] References

All data is provided by the United States Census Bureau and is current as of 2000 with the exception of two more recent state government sources.

State source updated 2005 Michigan.gov

State source updated 2001 Wyoming.gov