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

The United States is 552 times bigger by total area compared to Kuwait: 3,794,100 sq mi vs 6,880 sq mi. Without inland water, the land area of the United States is 3,531,839 sq mi vs 6,880 sq mi for Kuwait — a 513 times difference in territory size.

Kuwait ranks 153/197 by total surface area vs 3/197 for the United States.
Kuwait occupies 0.01% of the land mass of all countries, compared with 6.14% for the United States.
8.42% of Kuwait's area is agricultural land vs 46.1% in the United States.
Kuwait has 0.003% of the world's agricultural land area — the US has 8.83%.
0.35% of Kuwait is covered by forests, compared to 33.9% in the US.
0.0002% of the world's forests are in Kuwait, and 7.67% are in the United States.

True size map comparison: Kuwait vs United States

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Total size and land area comparison

	Kuwait	United States
Total area	6,880 sq mi	3,794,100 sq mi
Size difference ratio	1	552
Total area rank	153/197	3/197
Share of all countries' surface area	0.003%	1.93%
Land area	6,880 sq mi	3,531,839 sq mi
Land area difference ratio	1	513
Land area rank	153/197	3/197
Share of all countries' land area	0.01%	6.14%
Population	4,897,263	341,784,857
Population density	738 ppl/mi²	97.3 ppl/mi²

Surface area by type

	Kuwait	United States
Forest area	24.1 sq mi	1,196,125 sq mi
Forest area as share of land	0.35%	33.9%
Forest area rank	184/196	4/196
World's forests share	0.0002%	7.67%
Agricultural land area	579 sq mi	1,627,576 sq mi
Agricultural land share	8.42%	46.1%
Agricultural land area rank	158/194	2/194
Share of global agricultural land	0.003%	8.83%
Arable land	30.9 sq mi	585,190 sq mi
Arable land share	0.45%	16.6%
Arable land area rank	169/191	2/191
Permanent cropland	23.2 sq mi	12,242 sq mi
Permanent cropland share	0.34%	0.35%
Permanent cropland area rank	158/192	14/192
Water area	0 sq mi	262,262 sq mi
Water as share of total area	0%	6.91%
Water area rank	177/197	3/197
Roads length	3,572 mi	4,092,730 mi
Land borders length	295.2 mi	7,458 mi
Coastline length	310 mi	12,380 mi
Share of marine protected waters	3.2%	19%

Size of Kuwait compared to states in USA

If Kuwait were a state in the US, it would be the 47th biggest by land area: larger than Hawaii, smaller than New Jersey, and 38 times smaller than the size of Texas.

#	State	Land area	Compared to Kuwait
1	Alaska	570,641 sq mi	x82.9
2	Texas	261,232 sq mi	x38
3	California	155,779 sq mi	x22.6
4	Montana	145,546 sq mi	x21.2
5	New Mexico	121,298 sq mi	x17.6
6	Arizona	113,594 sq mi	x16.5
7	Nevada	109,781 sq mi	x16
8	Colorado	103,642 sq mi	x15.1
9	Wyoming	97,093 sq mi	x14.1
10	Oregon	95,988 sq mi	x14
11	Idaho	82,643 sq mi	x12
12	Utah	82,169 sq mi	x11.9
13	Kansas	81,759 sq mi	x11.9
14	Minnesota	79,627 sq mi	x11.6
15	Nebraska	76,824 sq mi	x11.2
16	South Dakota	75,811 sq mi	x11
17	North Dakota	69,001 sq mi	x10
18	Missouri	68,742 sq mi	x9.99
19	Oklahoma	68,595 sq mi	x9.97
20	Washington	66,456 sq mi	x9.66
21	Georgia	57,513 sq mi	x8.36
22	Michigan	56,539 sq mi	x8.22
23	Iowa	55,857 sq mi	x8.12
24	Illinois	55,519 sq mi	x8.07
25	Wisconsin	54,158 sq mi	x7.87
26	Florida	53,625 sq mi	x7.79
27	Arkansas	52,035 sq mi	x7.56
28	Alabama	50,645 sq mi	x7.36
29	North Carolina	48,618 sq mi	x7.07
30	New York	47,126 sq mi	x6.85
31	Mississippi	46,923 sq mi	x6.82
32	Pennsylvania	44,743 sq mi	x6.5
33	Louisiana	43,204 sq mi	x6.28
34	Tennessee	41,235 sq mi	x5.99
35	Ohio	40,861 sq mi	x5.94
36	Virginia	39,490 sq mi	x5.74
37	Kentucky	39,486 sq mi	x5.74
38	Indiana	35,826 sq mi	x5.21
39	Maine	30,843 sq mi	x4.48
40	South Carolina	30,061 sq mi	x4.37
41	West Virginia	24,038 sq mi	x3.49
42	Maryland	9,707 sq mi	x1.41
43	Vermont	9,217 sq mi	x1.34
44	New Hampshire	8,953 sq mi	x1.3
45	Massachusetts	7,800 sq mi	x1.13
46	New Jersey	7,354 sq mi	x1.07
*	Kuwait	6,880 sq mi	*
47	Hawaii	6,423 sq mi	0.93
48	Connecticut	4,842 sq mi	0.7
49	Puerto Rico	3,459 sq mi	0.5
50	Delaware	1,949 sq mi	0.28
51	Rhode Island	1,045 sq mi	0.15
52	Guam	209.7 sq mi	0.03
53	Northern Mariana Islands	179.2 sq mi	0.03
54	US Virgin Islands	133.7 sq mi	0.02
55	American Samoa	76.4 sq mi	0.01
56	District of Columbia	61 sq mi	0.009

Kuwait vs United States size on the map

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

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