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

The United States is 354 times bigger by total area compared to Haiti: 3,794,100 sq mi vs 10,714 sq mi. Without inland water, the land area of the United States is 3,531,839 sq mi vs 10,641 sq mi for Haiti — a 332 times difference in territory size.

Haiti ranks 144/197 by total surface area vs 3/197 for the United States.
Haiti occupies 0.02% of the land mass of all countries, compared with 6.14% for the United States.
65.1% of Haiti's area is agricultural land vs 46.1% in the United States.
Haiti has 0.04% of the world's agricultural land area — the US has 8.83%.
12.3% of Haiti is covered by forests, compared to 33.9% in the US.
0.008% of the world's forests are in Haiti, and 7.67% are in the United States.

True size map comparison: Haiti vs United States

See how Haiti 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

	Haiti	United States
Total area	10,714 sq mi	3,794,100 sq mi
Size difference ratio	1	354
Total area rank	144/197	3/197
Share of all countries' surface area	0.005%	1.93%
Land area	10,641 sq mi	3,531,839 sq mi
Land area difference ratio	1	332
Land area rank	142/197	3/197
Share of all countries' land area	0.02%	6.14%
Population	11,772,557	341,784,857
Population density	1,132 ppl/mi²	97.3 ppl/mi²

Surface area by type

	Haiti	United States
Forest area	1,305 sq mi	1,196,125 sq mi
Forest area as share of land	12.3%	33.9%
Forest area rank	146/196	4/196
World's forests share	0.008%	7.67%
Agricultural land area	6,931 sq mi	1,627,576 sq mi
Agricultural land share	65.1%	46.1%
Agricultural land area rank	123/194	2/194
Share of global agricultural land	0.04%	8.83%
Arable land	3,880 sq mi	585,190 sq mi
Arable land share	36.5%	16.6%
Arable land area rank	108/191	2/191
Permanent cropland	1,158 sq mi	12,242 sq mi
Permanent cropland share	10.9%	0.35%
Permanent cropland area rank	68/192	14/192
Water area	73.4 sq mi	262,262 sq mi
Water as share of total area	0.68%	6.91%
Water area rank	130/197	3/197
Roads length	2,651 mi	4,092,730 mi
Land borders length	233.6 mi	7,458 mi
Coastline length	1,100 mi	12,380 mi
Share of marine protected waters	1.8%	19%

Size of Haiti compared to states in USA

If Haiti were a state in the US, it would be the 42nd biggest by land area: larger than Maryland, smaller than West Virginia, and 24.5 times smaller than the size of Texas.

#	State	Land area	Compared to Haiti
1	Alaska	570,641 sq mi	x53.6
2	Texas	261,232 sq mi	x24.5
3	California	155,779 sq mi	x14.6
4	Montana	145,546 sq mi	x13.7
5	New Mexico	121,298 sq mi	x11.4
6	Arizona	113,594 sq mi	x10.7
7	Nevada	109,781 sq mi	x10.3
8	Colorado	103,642 sq mi	x9.74
9	Wyoming	97,093 sq mi	x9.12
10	Oregon	95,988 sq mi	x9.02
11	Idaho	82,643 sq mi	x7.77
12	Utah	82,169 sq mi	x7.72
13	Kansas	81,759 sq mi	x7.68
14	Minnesota	79,627 sq mi	x7.48
15	Nebraska	76,824 sq mi	x7.22
16	South Dakota	75,811 sq mi	x7.12
17	North Dakota	69,001 sq mi	x6.48
18	Missouri	68,742 sq mi	x6.46
19	Oklahoma	68,595 sq mi	x6.45
20	Washington	66,456 sq mi	x6.25
21	Georgia	57,513 sq mi	x5.4
22	Michigan	56,539 sq mi	x5.31
23	Iowa	55,857 sq mi	x5.25
24	Illinois	55,519 sq mi	x5.22
25	Wisconsin	54,158 sq mi	x5.09
26	Florida	53,625 sq mi	x5.04
27	Arkansas	52,035 sq mi	x4.89
28	Alabama	50,645 sq mi	x4.76
29	North Carolina	48,618 sq mi	x4.57
30	New York	47,126 sq mi	x4.43
31	Mississippi	46,923 sq mi	x4.41
32	Pennsylvania	44,743 sq mi	x4.2
33	Louisiana	43,204 sq mi	x4.06
34	Tennessee	41,235 sq mi	x3.88
35	Ohio	40,861 sq mi	x3.84
36	Virginia	39,490 sq mi	x3.71
37	Kentucky	39,486 sq mi	x3.71
38	Indiana	35,826 sq mi	x3.37
39	Maine	30,843 sq mi	x2.9
40	South Carolina	30,061 sq mi	x2.83
41	West Virginia	24,038 sq mi	x2.26
*	Haiti	10,641 sq mi	*
42	Maryland	9,707 sq mi	0.91
43	Vermont	9,217 sq mi	0.87
44	New Hampshire	8,953 sq mi	0.84
45	Massachusetts	7,800 sq mi	0.73
46	New Jersey	7,354 sq mi	0.69
47	Hawaii	6,423 sq mi	0.6
48	Connecticut	4,842 sq mi	0.46
49	Puerto Rico	3,459 sq mi	0.33
50	Delaware	1,949 sq mi	0.18
51	Rhode Island	1,045 sq mi	0.1
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	0.01
55	American Samoa	76.4 sq mi	0.007
56	District of Columbia	61 sq mi	0.006

Haiti vs United States size on the map

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

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