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

The United States is 12.5 times bigger by total area compared to Turkey: 3,794,100 sq mi vs 302,535 sq mi. Without inland water, the land area of the United States is 3,531,839 sq mi vs 297,156 sq mi for Turkey — a 11.9 times difference in territory size.

Turkey ranks 36/197 by total surface area vs 3/197 for the United States.
Turkey occupies 0.52% of the land mass of all countries, compared with 6.14% for the United States.
50.1% of Turkey's area is agricultural land vs 46.1% in the United States.
Turkey has 0.81% of the world's agricultural land area — the US has 8.83%.
29.5% of Turkey is covered by forests, compared to 33.9% in the US.
0.56% of the world's forests are in Turkey, and 7.67% are in the United States.

True size map comparison: Turkey vs United States

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Total size and land area comparison

	Turkey	United States
Total area	302,535 sq mi	3,794,100 sq mi
Size difference ratio	1	12.5
Total area rank	36/197	3/197
Share of all countries' surface area	0.15%	1.93%
Land area	297,156 sq mi	3,531,839 sq mi
Land area difference ratio	1	11.9
Land area rank	36/197	3/197
Share of all countries' land area	0.52%	6.14%
Population	85,518,661	341,784,857
Population density	289.2 ppl/mi²	97.3 ppl/mi²

Surface area by type

	Turkey	United States
Forest area	87,600 sq mi	1,196,125 sq mi
Forest area as share of land	29.5%	33.9%
Forest area rank	25/196	4/196
World's forests share	0.56%	7.67%
Agricultural land area	148,989 sq mi	1,627,576 sq mi
Agricultural land share	50.1%	46.1%
Agricultural land area rank	33/194	2/194
Share of global agricultural land	0.81%	8.83%
Arable land	78,290 sq mi	585,190 sq mi
Arable land share	26.3%	16.6%
Arable land area rank	14/191	2/191
Permanent cropland	14,263 sq mi	12,242 sq mi
Permanent cropland share	4.8%	0.35%
Permanent cropland area rank	13/192	14/192
Water area	5,379 sq mi	262,262 sq mi
Water as share of total area	1.78%	6.91%
Water area rank	36/197	3/197
Roads length	272,554 mi	4,092,730 mi
Land borders length	1,750 mi	7,458 mi
Coastline length	4,474 mi	12,380 mi
Share of marine protected waters	1.7%	19%

Size of Turkey compared to states in USA

If Turkey were a state in the US, it would be the 2nd biggest by land area: 1.92 smaller than Alaska but 1.14 times larger than the size of Texas.

#	State	Land area	Compared to Turkey
1	Alaska	570,641 sq mi	x1.92
*	Turkey	297,156 sq mi	*
2	Texas	261,232 sq mi	0.88
3	California	155,779 sq mi	0.52
4	Montana	145,546 sq mi	0.49
5	New Mexico	121,298 sq mi	0.41
6	Arizona	113,594 sq mi	0.38
7	Nevada	109,781 sq mi	0.37
8	Colorado	103,642 sq mi	0.35
9	Wyoming	97,093 sq mi	0.33
10	Oregon	95,988 sq mi	0.32
11	Idaho	82,643 sq mi	0.28
12	Utah	82,169 sq mi	0.28
13	Kansas	81,759 sq mi	0.28
14	Minnesota	79,627 sq mi	0.27
15	Nebraska	76,824 sq mi	0.26
16	South Dakota	75,811 sq mi	0.26
17	North Dakota	69,001 sq mi	0.23
18	Missouri	68,742 sq mi	0.23
19	Oklahoma	68,595 sq mi	0.23
20	Washington	66,456 sq mi	0.22
21	Georgia	57,513 sq mi	0.19
22	Michigan	56,539 sq mi	0.19
23	Iowa	55,857 sq mi	0.19
24	Illinois	55,519 sq mi	0.19
25	Wisconsin	54,158 sq mi	0.18
26	Florida	53,625 sq mi	0.18
27	Arkansas	52,035 sq mi	0.18
28	Alabama	50,645 sq mi	0.17
29	North Carolina	48,618 sq mi	0.16
30	New York	47,126 sq mi	0.16
31	Mississippi	46,923 sq mi	0.16
32	Pennsylvania	44,743 sq mi	0.15
33	Louisiana	43,204 sq mi	0.15
34	Tennessee	41,235 sq mi	0.14
35	Ohio	40,861 sq mi	0.14
36	Virginia	39,490 sq mi	0.13
37	Kentucky	39,486 sq mi	0.13
38	Indiana	35,826 sq mi	0.12
39	Maine	30,843 sq mi	0.1
40	South Carolina	30,061 sq mi	0.1
41	West Virginia	24,038 sq mi	0.08
42	Maryland	9,707 sq mi	0.03
43	Vermont	9,217 sq mi	0.03
44	New Hampshire	8,953 sq mi	0.03
45	Massachusetts	7,800 sq mi	0.03
46	New Jersey	7,354 sq mi	0.02
47	Hawaii	6,423 sq mi	0.02
48	Connecticut	4,842 sq mi	0.02
49	Puerto Rico	3,459 sq mi	0.01
50	Delaware	1,949 sq mi	0.007
51	Rhode Island	1,045 sq mi	0.004
52	Guam	209.7 sq mi	0.0007
53	Northern Mariana Islands	179.2 sq mi	0.0006
54	US Virgin Islands	133.7 sq mi	0.0005
55	American Samoa	76.4 sq mi	0.0003
56	District of Columbia	61 sq mi	0.0002

Turkey vs United States size on the map

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

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