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

The United States is 3,458 times bigger by total area compared to Samoa: 3,794,100 sq mi vs 1,097 sq mi. Without inland water, the land area of the United States is 3,531,839 sq mi vs 1,073 sq mi for Samoa — a 3,290 times difference in territory size.

Samoa ranks 168/197 by total surface area vs 3/197 for the United States.
Samoa occupies 0.002% of the land mass of all countries, compared with 6.14% for the United States.
17.6% of Samoa's area is agricultural land vs 46.1% in the United States.
Samoa has 0.001% of the world's agricultural land area — the US has 8.83%.
57.6% of Samoa is covered by forests, compared to 33.9% in the US.
0.004% of the world's forests are in Samoa, and 7.67% are in the United States.

True size map comparison: Samoa vs United States

See how Samoa 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

	Samoa	United States
Total area	1,097 sq mi	3,794,100 sq mi
Size difference ratio	1	3,458
Total area rank	168/197	3/197
Share of all countries' surface area	0.0006%	1.93%
Land area	1,073 sq mi	3,531,839 sq mi
Land area difference ratio	1	3,290
Land area rank	168/197	3/197
Share of all countries' land area	0.002%	6.14%
Population	218,019	341,784,857
Population density	205.5 ppl/mi²	97.3 ppl/mi²

Surface area by type

	Samoa	United States
Forest area	619 sq mi	1,196,125 sq mi
Forest area as share of land	57.6%	33.9%
Forest area rank	156/196	4/196
World's forests share	0.004%	7.67%
Agricultural land area	188.5 sq mi	1,627,576 sq mi
Agricultural land share	17.6%	46.1%
Agricultural land area rank	169/194	2/194
Share of global agricultural land	0.001%	8.83%
Arable land	41.4 sq mi	585,190 sq mi
Arable land share	3.85%	16.6%
Arable land area rank	166/191	2/191
Permanent cropland	122.4 sq mi	12,242 sq mi
Permanent cropland share	11.4%	0.35%
Permanent cropland area rank	139/192	14/192
Water area	23.9 sq mi	262,262 sq mi
Water as share of total area	2.18%	6.91%
Water area rank	139/197	3/197
Roads length	715 mi	4,092,730 mi
Land borders length	0 mi	7,458 mi
Coastline length	250.4 mi	12,380 mi
Share of marine protected waters	0.2%	19%

Size of Samoa compared to states in USA

If Samoa were a state in the US, it would be the 51st biggest by land area: larger than Rhode Island, smaller than Delaware, and 243.4 times smaller than the size of Texas.

#	State	Land area	Compared to Samoa
1	Alaska	570,641 sq mi	x532
2	Texas	261,232 sq mi	x243.4
3	California	155,779 sq mi	x145.1
4	Montana	145,546 sq mi	x135.6
5	New Mexico	121,298 sq mi	x113
6	Arizona	113,594 sq mi	x105.8
7	Nevada	109,781 sq mi	x102.3
8	Colorado	103,642 sq mi	x96.6
9	Wyoming	97,093 sq mi	x90.5
10	Oregon	95,988 sq mi	x89.4
11	Idaho	82,643 sq mi	x77
12	Utah	82,169 sq mi	x76.6
13	Kansas	81,759 sq mi	x76.2
14	Minnesota	79,627 sq mi	x74.2
15	Nebraska	76,824 sq mi	x71.6
16	South Dakota	75,811 sq mi	x70.6
17	North Dakota	69,001 sq mi	x64.3
18	Missouri	68,742 sq mi	x64
19	Oklahoma	68,595 sq mi	x63.9
20	Washington	66,456 sq mi	x61.9
21	Georgia	57,513 sq mi	x53.6
22	Michigan	56,539 sq mi	x52.7
23	Iowa	55,857 sq mi	x52
24	Illinois	55,519 sq mi	x51.7
25	Wisconsin	54,158 sq mi	x50.5
26	Florida	53,625 sq mi	x50
27	Arkansas	52,035 sq mi	x48.5
28	Alabama	50,645 sq mi	x47.2
29	North Carolina	48,618 sq mi	x45.3
30	New York	47,126 sq mi	x43.9
31	Mississippi	46,923 sq mi	x43.7
32	Pennsylvania	44,743 sq mi	x41.7
33	Louisiana	43,204 sq mi	x40.3
34	Tennessee	41,235 sq mi	x38.4
35	Ohio	40,861 sq mi	x38.1
36	Virginia	39,490 sq mi	x36.8
37	Kentucky	39,486 sq mi	x36.8
38	Indiana	35,826 sq mi	x33.4
39	Maine	30,843 sq mi	x28.7
40	South Carolina	30,061 sq mi	x28
41	West Virginia	24,038 sq mi	x22.4
42	Maryland	9,707 sq mi	x9.04
43	Vermont	9,217 sq mi	x8.59
44	New Hampshire	8,953 sq mi	x8.34
45	Massachusetts	7,800 sq mi	x7.27
46	New Jersey	7,354 sq mi	x6.85
47	Hawaii	6,423 sq mi	x5.98
48	Connecticut	4,842 sq mi	x4.51
49	Puerto Rico	3,459 sq mi	x3.22
50	Delaware	1,949 sq mi	x1.82
*	Samoa	1,073 sq mi	*
51	Rhode Island	1,045 sq mi	0.97
52	Guam	209.7 sq mi	0.2
53	Northern Mariana Islands	179.2 sq mi	0.17
54	US Virgin Islands	133.7 sq mi	0.12
55	American Samoa	76.4 sq mi	0.07
56	District of Columbia	61 sq mi	0.06

Samoa vs United States size on the map

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

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