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List of U.S. states and territories by area
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This is a complete list of all 50 U.S. states, its federal district (Washington, D.C.) and its major territories ordered by total area, land area and water area.[1] The water area includes inland waters, coastal waters, the Great Lakes and territorial waters. Glaciers and intermittent bodies of water are counted as land area.[2]
Area by state, federal district or territory
- U.S. states by total area
- U.S. states by land area
- U.S. states by water area
- U.S. states by water percentage
- Alaska is the largest state by total area, land area, and water area. It is the seventh-largest country division in the world.
- The area of Alaska is 18% of the area of the United States and equivalent to 21% of the area of the contiguous United States.
- The second largest state, Texas, has only 40% of the total area of the largest state, Alaska.
- Rhode Island is the smallest state by total area and land area.
- San Bernardino County is the largest county in the contiguous U.S. and is larger than each of the nine smallest states; it is larger than the four smallest states combined.
- Michigan is second (after Alaska) in water area, and first in water percentage.
- Florida is mostly a peninsula, and has the third-largest water area and seventh-largest water area percentage.
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Notes
- Areas were not published in the 2010 census, unlike previous years, as the U.S. Census Bureau no longer collects data on the Minor Outlying Islands.[4]
References
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