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

The United States is 152.1 times bigger by total area compared to Latvia: 3,794,100 sq mi vs 24,940 sq mi. Without inland water, the land area of the United States is 3,531,839 sq mi vs 24,027 sq mi for Latvia — a 147 times difference in territory size.

Latvia ranks 122/197 by total surface area vs 3/197 for the United States.
Latvia occupies 0.04% of the land mass of all countries, compared with 6.14% for the United States.
31.7% of Latvia's area is agricultural land vs 46.1% in the United States.
Latvia has 0.04% of the world's agricultural land area — the US has 8.83%.
55% of Latvia is covered by forests, compared to 33.9% in the US.
0.08% of the world's forests are in Latvia, and 7.67% are in the United States.

True size map comparison: Latvia vs United States

See how Latvia 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

	Latvia	United States
Total area	24,940 sq mi	3,794,100 sq mi
Size difference ratio	1	152.1
Total area rank	122/197	3/197
Share of all countries' surface area	0.01%	1.93%
Land area	24,027 sq mi	3,531,839 sq mi
Land area difference ratio	1	147
Land area rank	121/197	3/197
Share of all countries' land area	0.04%	6.14%
Population	1,866,124	341,784,857
Population density	76.2 ppl/mi²	97.3 ppl/mi²

Surface area by type

	Latvia	United States
Forest area	13,214 sq mi	1,196,125 sq mi
Forest area as share of land	55%	33.9%
Forest area rank	85/196	4/196
World's forests share	0.08%	7.67%
Agricultural land area	7,610 sq mi	1,627,576 sq mi
Agricultural land share	31.7%	46.1%
Agricultural land area rank	118/194	2/194
Share of global agricultural land	0.04%	8.83%
Arable land	5,251 sq mi	585,190 sq mi
Arable land share	21.9%	16.6%
Arable land area rank	95/191	2/191
Permanent cropland	38.6 sq mi	12,242 sq mi
Permanent cropland share	0.16%	0.35%
Permanent cropland area rank	154/192	14/192
Water area	913 sq mi	262,262 sq mi
Water as share of total area	3.66%	6.91%
Water area rank	89/197	3/197
Roads length	n/a	4,092,730 mi
Land borders length	851 mi	7,458 mi
Coastline length	309 mi	12,380 mi
Share of marine protected waters	16.4%	19%

Size of Latvia compared to states in USA

If Latvia were a state in the US, it would be the 42nd biggest by land area: larger than Maryland, smaller than West Virginia, and 10.9 times smaller than the size of Texas.

#	State	Land area	Compared to Latvia
1	Alaska	570,641 sq mi	x23.7
2	Texas	261,232 sq mi	x10.9
3	California	155,779 sq mi	x6.48
4	Montana	145,546 sq mi	x6.06
5	New Mexico	121,298 sq mi	x5.05
6	Arizona	113,594 sq mi	x4.73
7	Nevada	109,781 sq mi	x4.57
8	Colorado	103,642 sq mi	x4.31
9	Wyoming	97,093 sq mi	x4.04
10	Oregon	95,988 sq mi	x3.99
11	Idaho	82,643 sq mi	x3.44
12	Utah	82,169 sq mi	x3.42
13	Kansas	81,759 sq mi	x3.4
14	Minnesota	79,627 sq mi	x3.31
15	Nebraska	76,824 sq mi	x3.2
16	South Dakota	75,811 sq mi	x3.16
17	North Dakota	69,001 sq mi	x2.87
18	Missouri	68,742 sq mi	x2.86
19	Oklahoma	68,595 sq mi	x2.85
20	Washington	66,456 sq mi	x2.77
21	Georgia	57,513 sq mi	x2.39
22	Michigan	56,539 sq mi	x2.35
23	Iowa	55,857 sq mi	x2.32
24	Illinois	55,519 sq mi	x2.31
25	Wisconsin	54,158 sq mi	x2.25
26	Florida	53,625 sq mi	x2.23
27	Arkansas	52,035 sq mi	x2.17
28	Alabama	50,645 sq mi	x2.11
29	North Carolina	48,618 sq mi	x2.02
30	New York	47,126 sq mi	x1.96
31	Mississippi	46,923 sq mi	x1.95
32	Pennsylvania	44,743 sq mi	x1.86
33	Louisiana	43,204 sq mi	x1.8
34	Tennessee	41,235 sq mi	x1.72
35	Ohio	40,861 sq mi	x1.7
36	Virginia	39,490 sq mi	x1.64
37	Kentucky	39,486 sq mi	x1.64
38	Indiana	35,826 sq mi	x1.49
39	Maine	30,843 sq mi	x1.28
40	South Carolina	30,061 sq mi	x1.25
41	West Virginia	24,038 sq mi	x1
*	Latvia	24,027 sq mi	*
42	Maryland	9,707 sq mi	0.4
43	Vermont	9,217 sq mi	0.38
44	New Hampshire	8,953 sq mi	0.37
45	Massachusetts	7,800 sq mi	0.32
46	New Jersey	7,354 sq mi	0.31
47	Hawaii	6,423 sq mi	0.27
48	Connecticut	4,842 sq mi	0.2
49	Puerto Rico	3,459 sq mi	0.14
50	Delaware	1,949 sq mi	0.08
51	Rhode Island	1,045 sq mi	0.04
52	Guam	209.7 sq mi	0.009
53	Northern Mariana Islands	179.2 sq mi	0.007
54	US Virgin Islands	133.7 sq mi	0.006
55	American Samoa	76.4 sq mi	0.003
56	District of Columbia	61 sq mi	0.003

Latvia vs United States size on the map

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

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