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Saturday, March 21, 2015

States by Square Miles

Staring at a map of the USA one day I thought about how Georgia is the largest state east of the Mississippi, and decided to learn exactly how much bigger the Peach State is compared to her neighbors. Based on land area alone (subtracting areas cover by water) Georgia ranks twenty-first, larger than the nine smallest states combined.

570640 Alaska
261231 Texas
155779 California
145545 Montana
121298 New Mexico

112594 Arizona
109781 Nevada
103641 Colorado
097093 Wyoming
095988 Oregon

82643 Idaho
82169 Utah
81758 Kansas
79626 Minnesota
76824 Nebraska

75811 South Dakota
69000 North Dakota
68741 Missouri
68594 Oklahoma
66455 Washington

57513 Georgia (21) 59425 total area (24)
56538 Michigan
55857 Iowa
55518 Illinois
54157 Wisconsin

53624 Florida (26) 65757 tot area (22)
52035 Arkansas
50645 Alabama (28) 52420 (30)
48617 North Carolina (29) 53819 (28)
47126 New York (30) 54554 (27)

46923 Mississippi (31) 48431 (32)
44742 Pennsylvania (32) 46054 (33)
43203 Louisiana
41234 Tennessee (34) 42144 (36)
40860 Ohio (35) 44825

39490 Virginia
39486 Kentucky
35826 Indiana
30842 Maine
30060 South Carolina (40)

24038 West Virginia
09707 Maryland
09216 Vermont
08952 New Hampshire
07800 Massachusetts

7354 New Jersey
6422 Hawaii
4842 Connecticut
1948 Delaware
1033 Rhode Island

0061 District of Columbia
3423 Puerto Rico
0182 Northern Mariana Islands
0134 US Virgin Islands
0076 American Samoa
0209 Guam
0016 minor outlying islands

Technically Florida has more total area than Georgia, including areas covered in water. Same with Michigan.

California’s San Bernardino County is the largest county in the US and is larger than the four smallest US states combined. The county stretches almost from the Pacific Ocean to Arizona and Las Vegas Nevada.

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