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

The United States is 1,063 times bigger by total area compared to Cyprus: 3,794,100 sq mi vs 3,569 sq mi. Without inland water, the land area of the United States is 3,531,839 sq mi vs 3,568 sq mi for Cyprus — a 990 times difference in territory size.

Cyprus ranks 163/197 by total surface area vs 3/197 for the United States.
Cyprus occupies 0.006% of the land mass of all countries, compared with 6.14% for the United States.
14% of Cyprus' area is agricultural land vs 46.1% in the United States.
Cyprus has 0.003% of the world's agricultural land area — the US has 8.83%.
18.7% of Cyprus is covered by forests, compared to 33.9% in the US.
0.004% of the world's forests are in Cyprus, and 7.67% are in the United States.

True size map comparison: Cyprus vs United States

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Total size and land area comparison

	Cyprus	United States
Total area	3,569 sq mi	3,794,100 sq mi
Size difference ratio	1	1,063
Total area rank	163/197	3/197
Share of all countries' surface area	0.002%	1.93%
Land area	3,568 sq mi	3,531,839 sq mi
Land area difference ratio	1	990
Land area rank	163/197	3/197
Share of all countries' land area	0.006%	6.14%
Population	1,358,282	341,784,857
Population density	388 ppl/mi²	97.3 ppl/mi²

Surface area by type

	Cyprus	United States
Forest area	666 sq mi	1,196,125 sq mi
Forest area as share of land	18.7%	33.9%
Forest area rank	155/196	4/196
World's forests share	0.004%	7.67%
Agricultural land area	498 sq mi	1,627,576 sq mi
Agricultural land share	14%	46.1%
Agricultural land area rank	161/194	2/194
Share of global agricultural land	0.003%	8.83%
Arable land	378 sq mi	585,190 sq mi
Arable land share	10.6%	16.6%
Arable land area rank	149/191	2/191
Permanent cropland	112 sq mi	12,242 sq mi
Permanent cropland share	3.14%	0.35%
Permanent cropland area rank	142/192	14/192
Water area	0.95 sq mi	262,262 sq mi
Water as share of total area	0.03%	6.91%
Water area rank	156/197	3/197
Roads length	12,366 mi	4,092,730 mi
Land borders length	96.9 mi	7,458 mi
Coastline length	403 mi	12,380 mi
Share of marine protected waters	8.6%	19%

Size of Cyprus compared to states in USA

If Cyprus were a state in the US, it would be the 49th biggest by land area: larger than Puerto Rico, smaller than Connecticut, and 73.2 times smaller than the size of Texas.

#	State	Land area	Compared to Cyprus
1	Alaska	570,641 sq mi	x160
2	Texas	261,232 sq mi	x73.2
3	California	155,779 sq mi	x43.7
4	Montana	145,546 sq mi	x40.8
5	New Mexico	121,298 sq mi	x34
6	Arizona	113,594 sq mi	x31.8
7	Nevada	109,781 sq mi	x30.8
8	Colorado	103,642 sq mi	x29.1
9	Wyoming	97,093 sq mi	x27.2
10	Oregon	95,988 sq mi	x26.9
11	Idaho	82,643 sq mi	x23.2
12	Utah	82,169 sq mi	x23
13	Kansas	81,759 sq mi	x22.9
14	Minnesota	79,627 sq mi	x22.3
15	Nebraska	76,824 sq mi	x21.5
16	South Dakota	75,811 sq mi	x21.3
17	North Dakota	69,001 sq mi	x19.3
18	Missouri	68,742 sq mi	x19.3
19	Oklahoma	68,595 sq mi	x19.2
20	Washington	66,456 sq mi	x18.6
21	Georgia	57,513 sq mi	x16.1
22	Michigan	56,539 sq mi	x15.8
23	Iowa	55,857 sq mi	x15.7
24	Illinois	55,519 sq mi	x15.6
25	Wisconsin	54,158 sq mi	x15.2
26	Florida	53,625 sq mi	x15
27	Arkansas	52,035 sq mi	x14.6
28	Alabama	50,645 sq mi	x14.2
29	North Carolina	48,618 sq mi	x13.6
30	New York	47,126 sq mi	x13.2
31	Mississippi	46,923 sq mi	x13.2
32	Pennsylvania	44,743 sq mi	x12.5
33	Louisiana	43,204 sq mi	x12.1
34	Tennessee	41,235 sq mi	x11.6
35	Ohio	40,861 sq mi	x11.5
36	Virginia	39,490 sq mi	x11.1
37	Kentucky	39,486 sq mi	x11.1
38	Indiana	35,826 sq mi	x10
39	Maine	30,843 sq mi	x8.65
40	South Carolina	30,061 sq mi	x8.43
41	West Virginia	24,038 sq mi	x6.74
42	Maryland	9,707 sq mi	x2.72
43	Vermont	9,217 sq mi	x2.58
44	New Hampshire	8,953 sq mi	x2.51
45	Massachusetts	7,800 sq mi	x2.19
46	New Jersey	7,354 sq mi	x2.06
47	Hawaii	6,423 sq mi	x1.8
48	Connecticut	4,842 sq mi	x1.36
*	Cyprus	3,568 sq mi	*
49	Puerto Rico	3,459 sq mi	0.97
50	Delaware	1,949 sq mi	0.55
51	Rhode Island	1,045 sq mi	0.29
52	Guam	209.7 sq mi	0.06
53	Northern Mariana Islands	179.2 sq mi	0.05
54	US Virgin Islands	133.7 sq mi	0.04
55	American Samoa	76.4 sq mi	0.02
56	District of Columbia	61 sq mi	0.02

Cyprus vs United States size on the map

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

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