US' Total Size & Land Area: rank & territory types [2026]

The United States' land area is 3,531,839 sq mi, and the total size is 3,794,100 sq mi, with inland water included. The United States rankes 3/197 by total surface area.

Occupies 6.14% of the land mass of all countries.
46.1% of its territory is agricultural land.
The US has 8.83% of the world's agricultural land area.
33.9% of its area is covered by forests.
Has 7.67% of the world's forests.

The United States total size and land area

	United States	Rank
Total surface area	3,794,100 sq mi	3/197
Share all of all countries' surface area	1.93%	N/A
Land area	3,531,839 sq mi	3/197
Share of all countries' land area	6.14%	N/A
Population	341,784,857	3/197
Population density	97.3 ppl/mi²	149/197

United States' True Size on the Map

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United States' area by type

	United States	Rank
Forest area	1,196,125 sq mi	4/196
Forest area as share of land	33.9%	89/196
World's forests share	7.67%	N/A
Agricultural land	1,627,576 sq mi	2/194
Agricultural land share	46.1%	71/194
Share of global agricultural land	8.83%	N/A
Arable land	585,190 sq mi	2/191
Arable land share	16.6%	61/191
Permanent cropland	12,242 sq mi	14/192
Permanent cropland share	0.35%	148/192
Water area	262,262 sq mi	3/197
Water as share of total area	6.91%	22/197
Roads length	4,092,730 mi	2/176
Land borders length	7,458 mi	6/197
Coastline length	12,380 mi	8/197
Share of marine protected waters	19%	27/155

Size rank: if US states were countries

If US states were countries, Alaska would be the 19th biggest country by land area size. Texas would be 40th (bigger than Norway, Germany, Finland, or Italy), and California — 61st (bigger than New Zealand, the United Kingdom, Iceland, or South Korea).

The table below ranks US states by land area in one mix with countries.

#	State	Land area, mi²
1	Russia	6,323,145
2	China	3,624,808
3	United States	3,531,839
4	Canada	3,393,336
5	Brazil	3,227,096
6	Australia	2,969,906
7	India	1,147,955
8	Argentina	1,056,642
9	Kazakhstan	1,042,360
10	Algeria	919,595
11	DR Congo	875,313
12	Saudi Arabia	830,000
13	Mexico	750,563
14	Indonesia	730,720
15	Sudan	721,239
16	Libya	679,362
17	Iran	626,451
18	Mongolia	601,740
*	Alaska	570,641
19	Peru	494,211
20	Niger	489,076
21	Chad	486,180
22	Angola	481,354
23	Mali	471,118
24	South Africa	468,377
25	Ethiopia	435,716
26	Colombia	428,380
27	Bolivia	418,264
28	Mauritania	397,955
29	Egypt	384,345
30	Nigeria	351,650
31	Tanzania	342,009
32	Venezuela	340,561
33	Namibia	317,874
34	Mozambique	303,623
35	Pakistan	297,638
36	Turkey	297,156
37	Zambia	287,024
38	Chile	286,809
*	Texas	261,232
39	Myanmar	251,997
40	Afghanistan	251,827
41	South Sudan	243,990
42	Somalia	242,217
43	CAR	240,534
44	Madagascar	224,634
45	Kenya	224,278
46	Ukraine	223,708
47	Botswana	218,816
48	France	208,090
49	Yemen	203,850
50	Thailand	197,256
51	Spain	192,934
52	Cameroon	182,514
53	Turkmenistan	181,441
54	Papua New Guinea	174,850
55	Morocco	172,317
56	Uzbekistan	170,136
57	Iraq	167,619
58	Sweden	157,248
*	California	155,779
59	Paraguay	152,901
60	Zimbabwe	149,364
*	Montana	145,546
61	Japan	140,761
62	Norway	140,645
63	Germany	134,916
64	Congo	131,854
65	Malaysia	126,854
66	Ivory Coast	122,780
*	New Mexico	121,298
67	Vietnam	121,016
68	Oman	119,499
69	Poland	118,252
70	Finland	117,360
71	Philippines	115,124
72	Italy	114,178
*	Arizona	113,594
*	Nevada	109,781
73	Burkina Faso	105,638
*	Colorado	103,642
74	New Zealand	101,665
75	Gabon	99,487
*	Wyoming	97,093
*	Oregon	95,988
76	Ecuador	95,892
77	Guinea	94,873
78	United Kingdom	93,410
79	Laos	89,112
80	Romania	88,834
81	Ghana	87,851
*	Idaho	82,643
*	Utah	82,169
*	Kansas	81,759
82	Guyana	81,522
*	Minnesota	79,627
83	Belarus	78,372
84	Uganda	77,421
*	Nebraska	76,824
*	South Dakota	75,811
85	Senegal	74,336
86	Kyrgyzstan	74,054
87	Syria	70,900
*	North Dakota	69,001
*	Missouri	68,742
*	Oklahoma	68,595
88	Cambodia	68,155
89	Uruguay	67,576
*	Washington	66,456
90	Suriname	61,972
91	Tunisia	59,985
*	Georgia	57,513
*	Michigan	56,539
*	Iowa	55,857
*	Illinois	55,519
92	Nepal	55,348
*	Wisconsin	54,158
*	Florida	53,625
93	Tajikistan	53,587
*	Arkansas	52,035
*	Alabama	50,645
94	Bangladesh	50,186
95	Greece	49,769
*	North Carolina	48,618
*	New York	47,126
*	Mississippi	46,923
96	Eritrea	46,787
97	North Korea	46,491
98	Nicaragua	46,464
*	Pennsylvania	44,743
99	Benin	43,537
*	Louisiana	43,204
100	Honduras	43,201
101	Bulgaria	41,915
102	Guatemala	41,375
*	Tennessee	41,235
*	Ohio	40,861
103	Cuba	40,077
*	Virginia	39,490
*	Kentucky	39,486
104	Iceland	38,931
105	South Korea	37,684
106	Liberia	37,189
107	Malawi	36,402
*	Indiana	35,826
108	Portugal	35,369
109	Hungary	35,236
110	Jordan	34,284
111	Serbia	32,467
112	Azerbaijan	31,911
113	Austria	31,861
*	Maine	30,843
*	South Carolina	30,061
114	Czech Republic	29,794
115	Panama	28,641
116	Sierra Leone	27,869
117	UAE	27,421
118	Georgia	26,830
119	Ireland	26,599
120	Lithuania	24,170
*	West Virginia	24,038
121	Latvia	24,027
122	Sri Lanka	23,884
123	Croatia	21,606
124	Togo	21,000
125	Bosnia	19,768
126	Costa Rica	19,714
127	Dominican Republic	18,609
128	Slovakia	18,564
129	Estonia	16,498
130	Denmark	15,444
131	Switzerland	15,255
132	Bhutan	14,726
133	Taiwan	13,976
134	Netherlands	13,000
135	Moldova	12,714
136	Belgium	11,774
137	Lesotho	11,722
138	Armenia	10,888
139	Guinea-Bissau	10,857
140	Equatorial Guinea	10,830
141	Solomon Islands	10,807
142	Haiti	10,641
143	Albania	10,579
144	Burundi	9,915
145	North Macedonia	9,737
*	Maryland	9,707
146	Rwanda	9,525
*	Vermont	9,217
*	New Hampshire	8,953
147	Djibouti	8,950
148	Belize	8,807
149	Israel	8,355
150	El Salvador	8,000
*	Massachusetts	7,800
151	Slovenia	7,774
*	New Jersey	7,354
152	Fiji	7,054
153	Kuwait	6,880
154	Eswatini	6,641
*	Hawaii	6,423
155	East Timor	5,741
156	Montenegro	5,193
*	Connecticut	4,842
157	Vanuatu	4,707
158	Qatar	4,436
159	Jamaica	4,181
160	Lebanon	3,950
161	Gambia	3,907
162	Bahamas	3,865
163	Cyprus	3,568
*	Puerto Rico	3,459
164	Palestine	2,326
165	Brunei	2,035
166	Trinidad	1,981
*	Delaware	1,949
167	Cape Verde	1,556
168	Samoa	1,073
*	Rhode Island	1,045
169	Luxembourg	994
170	Mauritius	771
171	Comoros	719
172	Sao Tome	371
173	Kiribati	313
174	Bahrain	309
175	Dominica	289.6
176	Tonga	278
177	Singapore	277.2
178	Saint Lucia	235.5
*	Guam	209.7
179	Andorra	181.5
*	Northern Mariana Islands	179.2
180	Palau	177.6
181	Seychelles	177.6
182	Curacao	171.4
183	Antigua	169.9
184	Barbados	166
185	Saint Vincent	150.6
*	US Virgin Islands	133.7
186	Grenada	131.3
187	Malta	123.6
188	Maldives	115.1
189	Saint Kitts	100.4
190	Cayman Islands	92.7
*	American Samoa	76.4
191	Marshall Islands	69.5
192	Liechtenstein	61.8
*	District of Columbia	61
193	San Marino	23.2
194	Tuvalu	11.6
195	Nauru	7.72
196	Monaco	0.8
197	Vatican	0.17

United States' size on the map

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

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