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

The United States is 32.5 times bigger by total area compared to Italy: 3,794,100 sq mi vs 116,629 sq mi. Without inland water, the land area of the United States is 3,531,839 sq mi vs 114,178 sq mi for Italy — a 30.9 times difference in territory size.

Italy ranks 72/197 by total surface area vs 3/197 for the United States.
Italy occupies 0.2% of the land mass of all countries, compared with 6.14% for the United States.
44.3% of Italy's area is agricultural land vs 46.1% in the United States.
Italy has 0.27% of the world's agricultural land area — the US has 8.83%.
32.9% of Italy is covered by forests, compared to 33.9% in the US.
0.24% of the world's forests are in Italy, and 7.67% are in the United States.

True size map comparison: Italy vs United States

See how Italy 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

	Italy	United States
Total area	116,629 sq mi	3,794,100 sq mi
Size difference ratio	1	32.5
Total area rank	72/197	3/197
Share of all countries' surface area	0.06%	1.93%
Land area	114,178 sq mi	3,531,839 sq mi
Land area difference ratio	1	30.9
Land area rank	72/197	3/197
Share of all countries' land area	0.2%	6.14%
Population	58,952,704	341,784,857
Population density	513 ppl/mi²	97.3 ppl/mi²

Surface area by type

	Italy	United States
Forest area	37,558 sq mi	1,196,125 sq mi
Forest area as share of land	32.9%	33.9%
Forest area rank	54/196	4/196
World's forests share	0.24%	7.67%
Agricultural land area	50,531 sq mi	1,627,576 sq mi
Agricultural land share	44.3%	46.1%
Agricultural land area rank	62/194	2/194
Share of global agricultural land	0.27%	8.83%
Arable land	27,353 sq mi	585,190 sq mi
Arable land share	24%	16.6%
Arable land area rank	35/191	2/191
Permanent cropland	9,265 sq mi	12,242 sq mi
Permanent cropland share	8.11%	0.35%
Permanent cropland area rank	17/192	14/192
Water area	2,451 sq mi	262,262 sq mi
Water as share of total area	2.1%	6.91%
Water area rank	58/197	3/197
Roads length	303,043 mi	4,092,730 mi
Land borders length	1,141 mi	7,458 mi
Coastline length	4,722 mi	12,380 mi
Share of marine protected waters	10.7%	19%

Size of Italy compared to states in USA

If Italy were a state in the US, it would be the 6th biggest by land area: larger than Arizona, smaller than New Mexico, and 2.29 times smaller than the size of Texas.

#	State	Land area	Compared to Italy
1	Alaska	570,641 sq mi	x5
2	Texas	261,232 sq mi	x2.29
3	California	155,779 sq mi	x1.36
4	Montana	145,546 sq mi	x1.27
5	New Mexico	121,298 sq mi	x1.06
*	Italy	114,178 sq mi	*
6	Arizona	113,594 sq mi	0.99
7	Nevada	109,781 sq mi	0.96
8	Colorado	103,642 sq mi	0.91
9	Wyoming	97,093 sq mi	0.85
10	Oregon	95,988 sq mi	0.84
11	Idaho	82,643 sq mi	0.72
12	Utah	82,169 sq mi	0.72
13	Kansas	81,759 sq mi	0.72
14	Minnesota	79,627 sq mi	0.7
15	Nebraska	76,824 sq mi	0.67
16	South Dakota	75,811 sq mi	0.66
17	North Dakota	69,001 sq mi	0.6
18	Missouri	68,742 sq mi	0.6
19	Oklahoma	68,595 sq mi	0.6
20	Washington	66,456 sq mi	0.58
21	Georgia	57,513 sq mi	0.5
22	Michigan	56,539 sq mi	0.5
23	Iowa	55,857 sq mi	0.49
24	Illinois	55,519 sq mi	0.49
25	Wisconsin	54,158 sq mi	0.47
26	Florida	53,625 sq mi	0.47
27	Arkansas	52,035 sq mi	0.46
28	Alabama	50,645 sq mi	0.44
29	North Carolina	48,618 sq mi	0.43
30	New York	47,126 sq mi	0.41
31	Mississippi	46,923 sq mi	0.41
32	Pennsylvania	44,743 sq mi	0.39
33	Louisiana	43,204 sq mi	0.38
34	Tennessee	41,235 sq mi	0.36
35	Ohio	40,861 sq mi	0.36
36	Virginia	39,490 sq mi	0.35
37	Kentucky	39,486 sq mi	0.35
38	Indiana	35,826 sq mi	0.31
39	Maine	30,843 sq mi	0.27
40	South Carolina	30,061 sq mi	0.26
41	West Virginia	24,038 sq mi	0.21
42	Maryland	9,707 sq mi	0.09
43	Vermont	9,217 sq mi	0.08
44	New Hampshire	8,953 sq mi	0.08
45	Massachusetts	7,800 sq mi	0.07
46	New Jersey	7,354 sq mi	0.06
47	Hawaii	6,423 sq mi	0.06
48	Connecticut	4,842 sq mi	0.04
49	Puerto Rico	3,459 sq mi	0.03
50	Delaware	1,949 sq mi	0.02
51	Rhode Island	1,045 sq mi	0.009
52	Guam	209.7 sq mi	0.002
53	Northern Mariana Islands	179.2 sq mi	0.002
54	US Virgin Islands	133.7 sq mi	0.001
55	American Samoa	76.4 sq mi	0.0007
56	District of Columbia	61 sq mi	0.0005

Italy vs United States size on the map

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

GeoRank.org/size/italy/united-states | CC BY

The map above outlines the borders of Italy and the United States but is not accurate for size comparison because it's a 2d map with Mercator projection that distorts territories near the poles. The farther a country is from the equator, the more magnified it appears. More about country size projections.

Compare countries by 7 more topics