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

The United States is 390,878 times bigger by total area compared to Tuvalu: 3,794,100 sq mi vs 9.71 sq mi. Without inland water, the land area of the United States is 3,531,839 sq mi vs 11.6 sq mi for Tuvalu — a 304,914 times difference in territory size.

Tuvalu ranks 194/197 by total surface area vs 3/197 for the United States.
Tuvalu occupies 0.00002% of the land mass of all countries, compared with 6.14% for the United States.
60% of Tuvalu's area is agricultural land vs 46.1% in the United States.
Tuvalu has 0.00004% of the world's agricultural land area — the US has 8.83%.
33.3% of Tuvalu is covered by forests, compared to 33.9% in the US.
0.00002% of the world's forests are in Tuvalu, and 7.67% are in the United States.

True size map comparison: Tuvalu vs United States

See how Tuvalu 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

	Tuvalu	United States
Total area	9.71 sq mi	3,794,100 sq mi
Size difference ratio	1	390,878
Total area rank	194/197	3/197
Share of all countries' surface area	0.000005%	1.93%
Land area	11.6 sq mi	3,531,839 sq mi
Land area difference ratio	1	304,914
Land area rank	194/197	3/197
Share of all countries' land area	0.00002%	6.14%
Population	9,646	341,784,857
Population density	806 ppl/mi²	97.3 ppl/mi²

Surface area by type

	Tuvalu	United States
Forest area	3.86 sq mi	1,196,125 sq mi
Forest area as share of land	33.3%	33.9%
Forest area rank	189/196	4/196
World's forests share	0.00002%	7.67%
Agricultural land area	6.95 sq mi	1,627,576 sq mi
Agricultural land share	60%	46.1%
Agricultural land area rank	191/194	2/194
Share of global agricultural land	0.00004%	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	6.95 sq mi	12,242 sq mi
Permanent cropland share	60%	0.35%
Permanent cropland area rank	178/192	14/192
Water area	0 sq mi	262,262 sq mi
Water as share of total area	0%	6.91%
Water area rank	195/197	3/197
Roads length	4.97 mi	4,092,730 mi
Land borders length	0 mi	7,458 mi
Coastline length	14.9 mi	12,380 mi
Share of marine protected waters	0%	19%

Size of Tuvalu compared to states in USA

If Tuvalu were a state in the US, it would be the smallest by land area and 22,553 times smaller than Texas.

#	State	Land area	Compared to Tuvalu
1	Alaska	570,641 sq mi	x49,265
2	Texas	261,232 sq mi	x22,553
3	California	155,779 sq mi	x13,449
4	Montana	145,546 sq mi	x12,565
5	New Mexico	121,298 sq mi	x10,472
6	Arizona	113,594 sq mi	x9,807
7	Nevada	109,781 sq mi	x9,478
8	Colorado	103,642 sq mi	x8,948
9	Wyoming	97,093 sq mi	x8,382
10	Oregon	95,988 sq mi	x8,287
11	Idaho	82,643 sq mi	x7,135
12	Utah	82,169 sq mi	x7,094
13	Kansas	81,759 sq mi	x7,058
14	Minnesota	79,627 sq mi	x6,874
15	Nebraska	76,824 sq mi	x6,632
16	South Dakota	75,811 sq mi	x6,545
17	North Dakota	69,001 sq mi	x5,957
18	Missouri	68,742 sq mi	x5,935
19	Oklahoma	68,595 sq mi	x5,922
20	Washington	66,456 sq mi	x5,737
21	Georgia	57,513 sq mi	x4,965
22	Michigan	56,539 sq mi	x4,881
23	Iowa	55,857 sq mi	x4,822
24	Illinois	55,519 sq mi	x4,793
25	Wisconsin	54,158 sq mi	x4,676
26	Florida	53,625 sq mi	x4,630
27	Arkansas	52,035 sq mi	x4,492
28	Alabama	50,645 sq mi	x4,372
29	North Carolina	48,618 sq mi	x4,197
30	New York	47,126 sq mi	x4,069
31	Mississippi	46,923 sq mi	x4,051
32	Pennsylvania	44,743 sq mi	x3,863
33	Louisiana	43,204 sq mi	x3,730
34	Tennessee	41,235 sq mi	x3,560
35	Ohio	40,861 sq mi	x3,528
36	Virginia	39,490 sq mi	x3,409
37	Kentucky	39,486 sq mi	x3,409
38	Indiana	35,826 sq mi	x3,093
39	Maine	30,843 sq mi	x2,663
40	South Carolina	30,061 sq mi	x2,595
41	West Virginia	24,038 sq mi	x2,075
42	Maryland	9,707 sq mi	x838
43	Vermont	9,217 sq mi	x796
44	New Hampshire	8,953 sq mi	x773
45	Massachusetts	7,800 sq mi	x673
46	New Jersey	7,354 sq mi	x635
47	Hawaii	6,423 sq mi	x555
48	Connecticut	4,842 sq mi	x418
49	Puerto Rico	3,459 sq mi	x298.6
50	Delaware	1,949 sq mi	x168.2
51	Rhode Island	1,045 sq mi	x90.2
52	Guam	209.7 sq mi	x18.1
53	Northern Mariana Islands	179.2 sq mi	x15.5
54	US Virgin Islands	133.7 sq mi	x11.5
55	American Samoa	76.4 sq mi	x6.6
56	District of Columbia	61 sq mi	x5.27
*	Tuvalu	11.6 sq mi	*

Tuvalu vs United States size on the map

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

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