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

The United States is 31,097 times bigger by total area compared to Malta: 3,794,100 sq mi vs 122 sq mi. Without inland water, the land area of the United States is 3,531,839 sq mi vs 123.6 sq mi for Malta — a 28,586 times difference in territory size.

Malta ranks 187/197 by total surface area vs 3/197 for the United States.
Malta occupies 0.0002% of the land mass of all countries, compared with 6.14% for the United States.
25.9% of Malta's area is agricultural land vs 46.1% in the United States.
Malta has 0.0002% of the world's agricultural land area — the US has 8.83%.
1.44% of Malta is covered by forests, compared to 33.9% in the US.
0.00001% of the world's forests are in Malta, and 7.67% are in the United States.

True size map comparison: Malta vs United States

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Total size and land area comparison

	Malta	United States
Total area	122 sq mi	3,794,100 sq mi
Size difference ratio	1	31,097
Total area rank	187/197	3/197
Share of all countries' surface area	0.00006%	1.93%
Land area	123.6 sq mi	3,531,839 sq mi
Land area difference ratio	1	28,586
Land area rank	187/197	3/197
Share of all countries' land area	0.0002%	6.14%
Population	568,847	341,784,857
Population density	4,704 ppl/mi²	97.3 ppl/mi²

Surface area by type

	Malta	United States
Forest area	1.78 sq mi	1,196,125 sq mi
Forest area as share of land	1.44%	33.9%
Forest area rank	192/196	4/196
World's forests share	0.00001%	7.67%
Agricultural land area	32 sq mi	1,627,576 sq mi
Agricultural land share	25.9%	46.1%
Agricultural land area rank	180/194	2/194
Share of global agricultural land	0.0002%	8.83%
Arable land	28.2 sq mi	585,190 sq mi
Arable land share	22.8%	16.6%
Arable land area rank	170/191	2/191
Permanent cropland	4.01 sq mi	12,242 sq mi
Permanent cropland share	3.25%	0.35%
Permanent cropland area rank	181/192	14/192
Water area	0 sq mi	262,262 sq mi
Water as share of total area	0%	6.91%
Water area rank	181/197	3/197
Roads length	1,401 mi	4,092,730 mi
Land borders length	0 mi	7,458 mi
Coastline length	122.3 mi	12,380 mi
Share of marine protected waters	7.8%	19%

Size of Malta compared to states in USA

If Malta were a state in the US, it would be the 55th biggest by land area: larger than American Samoa, smaller than US Virgin Islands, and 2,114 times smaller than the size of Texas.

#	State	Land area	Compared to Malta
1	Alaska	570,641 sq mi	x4,619
2	Texas	261,232 sq mi	x2,114
3	California	155,779 sq mi	x1,261
4	Montana	145,546 sq mi	x1,178
5	New Mexico	121,298 sq mi	x982
6	Arizona	113,594 sq mi	x919
7	Nevada	109,781 sq mi	x889
8	Colorado	103,642 sq mi	x839
9	Wyoming	97,093 sq mi	x786
10	Oregon	95,988 sq mi	x777
11	Idaho	82,643 sq mi	x669
12	Utah	82,169 sq mi	x665
13	Kansas	81,759 sq mi	x662
14	Minnesota	79,627 sq mi	x644
15	Nebraska	76,824 sq mi	x622
16	South Dakota	75,811 sq mi	x614
17	North Dakota	69,001 sq mi	x558
18	Missouri	68,742 sq mi	x556
19	Oklahoma	68,595 sq mi	x555
20	Washington	66,456 sq mi	x538
21	Georgia	57,513 sq mi	x465
22	Michigan	56,539 sq mi	x458
23	Iowa	55,857 sq mi	x452
24	Illinois	55,519 sq mi	x449
25	Wisconsin	54,158 sq mi	x438
26	Florida	53,625 sq mi	x434
27	Arkansas	52,035 sq mi	x421
28	Alabama	50,645 sq mi	x410
29	North Carolina	48,618 sq mi	x394
30	New York	47,126 sq mi	x381
31	Mississippi	46,923 sq mi	x380
32	Pennsylvania	44,743 sq mi	x362
33	Louisiana	43,204 sq mi	x350
34	Tennessee	41,235 sq mi	x334
35	Ohio	40,861 sq mi	x331
36	Virginia	39,490 sq mi	x320
37	Kentucky	39,486 sq mi	x320
38	Indiana	35,826 sq mi	x290
39	Maine	30,843 sq mi	x249.6
40	South Carolina	30,061 sq mi	x243.3
41	West Virginia	24,038 sq mi	x194.6
42	Maryland	9,707 sq mi	x78.6
43	Vermont	9,217 sq mi	x74.6
44	New Hampshire	8,953 sq mi	x72.5
45	Massachusetts	7,800 sq mi	x63.1
46	New Jersey	7,354 sq mi	x59.5
47	Hawaii	6,423 sq mi	x52
48	Connecticut	4,842 sq mi	x39.2
49	Puerto Rico	3,459 sq mi	x28
50	Delaware	1,949 sq mi	x15.8
51	Rhode Island	1,045 sq mi	x8.46
52	Guam	209.7 sq mi	x1.7
53	Northern Mariana Islands	179.2 sq mi	x1.45
54	US Virgin Islands	133.7 sq mi	x1.08
*	Malta	123.6 sq mi	*
55	American Samoa	76.4 sq mi	0.62
56	District of Columbia	61 sq mi	0.49

Malta vs United States size on the map

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

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