Total & land area: Belize vs US size comparison [2026]

The United States is 428 times bigger by total area compared to Belize: 3,794,100 sq mi vs 8,867 sq mi. Without inland water, the land area of the United States is 3,531,839 sq mi vs 8,807 sq mi for Belize — a 401 times difference in territory size.

Belize ranks 148/197 by total surface area vs 3/197 for the United States.
Belize occupies 0.02% of the land mass of all countries, compared with 6.14% for the United States.
7.98% of Belize's area is agricultural land vs 46.1% in the United States.
Belize has 0.004% of the world's agricultural land area — the US has 8.83%.
54.5% of Belize is covered by forests, compared to 33.9% in the US.
0.03% of the world's forests are in Belize, and 7.67% are in the United States.

True size map comparison: Belize vs United States

See how Belize and the United States compare in true size on the map. Drag the outlines to different latitudes to see how the Mercator projection affects their apparent size.

Total size and land area comparison

	Belize	United States
Total area	8,867 sq mi	3,794,100 sq mi
Size difference ratio	1	428
Total area rank	148/197	3/197
Share of all countries' surface area	0.005%	1.93%
Land area	8,807 sq mi	3,531,839 sq mi
Land area difference ratio	1	401
Land area rank	148/197	3/197
Share of all countries' land area	0.02%	6.14%
Population	417,072	341,784,857
Population density	48.7 ppl/mi²	97.3 ppl/mi²

Surface area by type

	Belize	United States
Forest area	4,801 sq mi	1,196,125 sq mi
Forest area as share of land	54.5%	33.9%
Forest area rank	117/196	4/196
World's forests share	0.03%	7.67%
Agricultural land area	703 sq mi	1,627,576 sq mi
Agricultural land share	7.98%	46.1%
Agricultural land area rank	157/194	2/194
Share of global agricultural land	0.004%	8.83%
Arable land	386 sq mi	585,190 sq mi
Arable land share	4.38%	16.6%
Arable land area rank	147/191	2/191
Permanent cropland	123.6 sq mi	12,242 sq mi
Permanent cropland share	1.4%	0.35%
Permanent cropland area rank	138/192	14/192
Water area	60.2 sq mi	262,262 sq mi
Water as share of total area	0.68%	6.91%
Water area rank	134/197	3/197
Roads length	2,039 mi	4,092,730 mi
Land borders length	337 mi	7,458 mi
Coastline length	239.8 mi	12,380 mi
Share of marine protected waters	20.4%	19%

Size of Belize compared to states in USA

If Belize were a state in the US, it would be the 45th biggest by land area: larger than Massachusetts, smaller than New Hampshire, and 29.7 times smaller than the size of Texas.

#	State	Land area	Compared to Belize
1	Alaska	570,641 sq mi	x64.8
2	Texas	261,232 sq mi	x29.7
3	California	155,779 sq mi	x17.7
4	Montana	145,546 sq mi	x16.5
5	New Mexico	121,298 sq mi	x13.8
6	Arizona	113,594 sq mi	x12.9
7	Nevada	109,781 sq mi	x12.5
8	Colorado	103,642 sq mi	x11.8
9	Wyoming	97,093 sq mi	x11
10	Oregon	95,988 sq mi	x10.9
11	Idaho	82,643 sq mi	x9.38
12	Utah	82,169 sq mi	x9.33
13	Kansas	81,759 sq mi	x9.28
14	Minnesota	79,627 sq mi	x9.04
15	Nebraska	76,824 sq mi	x8.72
16	South Dakota	75,811 sq mi	x8.61
17	North Dakota	69,001 sq mi	x7.83
18	Missouri	68,742 sq mi	x7.81
19	Oklahoma	68,595 sq mi	x7.79
20	Washington	66,456 sq mi	x7.55
21	Georgia	57,513 sq mi	x6.53
22	Michigan	56,539 sq mi	x6.42
23	Iowa	55,857 sq mi	x6.34
24	Illinois	55,519 sq mi	x6.3
25	Wisconsin	54,158 sq mi	x6.15
26	Florida	53,625 sq mi	x6.09
27	Arkansas	52,035 sq mi	x5.91
28	Alabama	50,645 sq mi	x5.75
29	North Carolina	48,618 sq mi	x5.52
30	New York	47,126 sq mi	x5.35
31	Mississippi	46,923 sq mi	x5.33
32	Pennsylvania	44,743 sq mi	x5.08
33	Louisiana	43,204 sq mi	x4.91
34	Tennessee	41,235 sq mi	x4.68
35	Ohio	40,861 sq mi	x4.64
36	Virginia	39,490 sq mi	x4.48
37	Kentucky	39,486 sq mi	x4.48
38	Indiana	35,826 sq mi	x4.07
39	Maine	30,843 sq mi	x3.5
40	South Carolina	30,061 sq mi	x3.41
41	West Virginia	24,038 sq mi	x2.73
42	Maryland	9,707 sq mi	x1.1
43	Vermont	9,217 sq mi	x1.05
44	New Hampshire	8,953 sq mi	x1.02
*	Belize	8,807 sq mi	*
45	Massachusetts	7,800 sq mi	0.89
46	New Jersey	7,354 sq mi	0.84
47	Hawaii	6,423 sq mi	0.73
48	Connecticut	4,842 sq mi	0.55
49	Puerto Rico	3,459 sq mi	0.39
50	Delaware	1,949 sq mi	0.22
51	Rhode Island	1,045 sq mi	0.12
52	Guam	209.7 sq mi	0.02
53	Northern Mariana Islands	179.2 sq mi	0.02
54	US Virgin Islands	133.7 sq mi	0.02
55	American Samoa	76.4 sq mi	0.009
56	District of Columbia	61 sq mi	0.007

Belize vs United States size on the map

Data sources: World Bank | Agriculture & Rural Development (2026, retrieved 2026-04-06).

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