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

The United States is 467,937 times bigger by total area compared to Nauru: 3,794,100 sq mi vs 8.11 sq mi. Without inland water, the land area of the United States is 3,531,839 sq mi vs 7.72 sq mi for Nauru — a 457,371 times difference in territory size.

Nauru ranks 195/197 by total surface area vs 3/197 for the United States.
Nauru occupies 0.00001% of the land mass of all countries, compared with 6.14% for the United States.
20% of Nauru's area is agricultural land vs 46.1% in the United States.
Nauru has 0.000008% of the world's agricultural land area — the US has 8.83%.
0% of Nauru is covered by forests, compared to 33.9% in the US.
0% of the world's forests are in Nauru, and 7.67% are in the United States.

True size map comparison: Nauru vs United States

See how Nauru 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

	Nauru	United States
Total area	8.11 sq mi	3,794,100 sq mi
Size difference ratio	1	467,937
Total area rank	195/197	3/197
Share of all countries' surface area	0.000004%	1.93%
Land area	7.72 sq mi	3,531,839 sq mi
Land area difference ratio	1	457,371
Land area rank	195/197	3/197
Share of all countries' land area	0.00001%	6.14%
Population	11,947	341,784,857
Population density	1,568 ppl/mi²	97.3 ppl/mi²

Surface area by type

	Nauru	United States
Forest area	0 sq mi	1,196,125 sq mi
Forest area as share of land	0%	33.9%
Forest area rank	195/196	4/196
World's forests share	0%	7.67%
Agricultural land area	1.54 sq mi	1,627,576 sq mi
Agricultural land share	20%	46.1%
Agricultural land area rank	194/194	2/194
Share of global agricultural land	0.000008%	8.83%
Arable land	n/a	585,190 sq mi
Arable land share	n/a	16.6%
Arable land area rank	n/a	2/191
Permanent cropland	1.54 sq mi	12,242 sq mi
Permanent cropland share	20%	0.35%
Permanent cropland area rank	188/192	14/192
Water area	0.39 sq mi	262,262 sq mi
Water as share of total area	4.76%	6.91%
Water area rank	165/197	3/197
Roads length	18.6 mi	4,092,730 mi
Land borders length	0 mi	7,458 mi
Coastline length	18.6 mi	12,380 mi
Share of marine protected waters	0%	19%

Size of Nauru compared to states in USA

If Nauru were a state in the US, it would be the smallest by land area and 33,829 times smaller than Texas.

#	State	Land area	Compared to Nauru
1	Alaska	570,641 sq mi	x73,898
2	Texas	261,232 sq mi	x33,829
3	California	155,779 sq mi	x20,173
4	Montana	145,546 sq mi	x18,848
5	New Mexico	121,298 sq mi	x15,708
6	Arizona	113,594 sq mi	x14,710
7	Nevada	109,781 sq mi	x14,217
8	Colorado	103,642 sq mi	x13,422
9	Wyoming	97,093 sq mi	x12,574
10	Oregon	95,988 sq mi	x12,430
11	Idaho	82,643 sq mi	x10,702
12	Utah	82,169 sq mi	x10,641
13	Kansas	81,759 sq mi	x10,588
14	Minnesota	79,627 sq mi	x10,312
15	Nebraska	76,824 sq mi	x9,949
16	South Dakota	75,811 sq mi	x9,818
17	North Dakota	69,001 sq mi	x8,936
18	Missouri	68,742 sq mi	x8,902
19	Oklahoma	68,595 sq mi	x8,883
20	Washington	66,456 sq mi	x8,606
21	Georgia	57,513 sq mi	x7,448
22	Michigan	56,539 sq mi	x7,322
23	Iowa	55,857 sq mi	x7,233
24	Illinois	55,519 sq mi	x7,190
25	Wisconsin	54,158 sq mi	x7,013
26	Florida	53,625 sq mi	x6,944
27	Arkansas	52,035 sq mi	x6,739
28	Alabama	50,645 sq mi	x6,559
29	North Carolina	48,618 sq mi	x6,296
30	New York	47,126 sq mi	x6,103
31	Mississippi	46,923 sq mi	x6,077
32	Pennsylvania	44,743 sq mi	x5,794
33	Louisiana	43,204 sq mi	x5,595
34	Tennessee	41,235 sq mi	x5,340
35	Ohio	40,861 sq mi	x5,291
36	Virginia	39,490 sq mi	x5,114
37	Kentucky	39,486 sq mi	x5,113
38	Indiana	35,826 sq mi	x4,639
39	Maine	30,843 sq mi	x3,994
40	South Carolina	30,061 sq mi	x3,893
41	West Virginia	24,038 sq mi	x3,113
42	Maryland	9,707 sq mi	x1,257
43	Vermont	9,217 sq mi	x1,194
44	New Hampshire	8,953 sq mi	x1,159
45	Massachusetts	7,800 sq mi	x1,010
46	New Jersey	7,354 sq mi	x952
47	Hawaii	6,423 sq mi	x832
48	Connecticut	4,842 sq mi	x627
49	Puerto Rico	3,459 sq mi	x448
50	Delaware	1,949 sq mi	x252.4
51	Rhode Island	1,045 sq mi	x135.4
52	Guam	209.7 sq mi	x27.2
53	Northern Mariana Islands	179.2 sq mi	x23.2
54	US Virgin Islands	133.7 sq mi	x17.3
55	American Samoa	76.4 sq mi	x9.9
56	District of Columbia	61 sq mi	x7.9
*	Nauru	7.72 sq mi	*

Nauru vs United States size on the map

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

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