Rankings · Place
Lowest land area by state
Land area in square miles.
This measure has no better end. The order describes the states, it does not rank them — see the other direction.
Land area from the Census Bureau's own boundary files, excluding water. A county that is half lake would otherwise read as far emptier than it is — which matters in Michigan, Minnesota and much of Alaska. Worth reading beside population rather than alone: San Bernardino County is larger than nine states, and Arlington County fits inside a small city.
- 1District of Columbia61
- 2Rhode Island1,033
- 3Delaware1,948
- 4Connecticut4,842
- 5Hawaii6,423
- 6New Jersey7,354
- 7Massachusetts7,801
- 8New Hampshire8,956
- 9Vermont9,217
- 10Maryland9,712
- 11West Virginia24,041
- 12South Carolina30,064
- 13Maine30,845
- 14Indiana35,827
- 15Virginia39,477
- 16Kentucky39,483
- 17Ohio40,856
- 18Tennessee41,224
- 19Louisiana43,223
- 20Pennsylvania44,739
- 21Mississippi46,927
- 22New York47,126
- 23North Carolina48,625
- 24Alabama50,654
- 25Arkansas51,990
- 26Florida53,657
- 27Wisconsin54,172
- 28Illinois55,510
- 29Iowa55,852
- 30Michigan56,611
- 31Georgia57,713
- 32Washington66,459
- 33Oklahoma68,598
- 34Missouri68,753
- 35North Dakota68,994
- 36South Dakota75,810
- 37Nebraska76,815
- 38Minnesota79,631
- 39Kansas81,760
- 40Utah82,597
- 41Idaho82,645
- 42Oregon95,999
- 43Wyoming97,088
- 44Colorado103,638
- 45Nevada109,862
- 46Arizona113,656
- 47New Mexico121,311
- 48Montana145,552
- 49California155,861
- 50Texas261,255
- 51Alaska571,388
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