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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.
Alaska is the largest state in the United States in terms of land area at 570,380 square miles (1,477,300 km 2), over twice (roughly 2.47 times) as large as Texas, the next largest state, and is the seventh largest country subdivision in the world, and the third largest in North America, about 20.4% smaller than Denmark's autonomous country of ...
Alaska is more than twice the size of the second-largest U.S. state (Texas), and it is larger than the next three largest states (Texas, California, and Montana) combined. Alaska is the seventh largest subnational division in the world. If it was an independent nation, it would be the 18th largest country in the world; almost the same size as Iran.
San Francisco is an extreme example: water makes up nearly 80% of its total area of 232 square miles (601 km 2). In many cases an incorporated place is geographically large because its municipal government has merged with the government of the surrounding county.
[citation needed] For comparison, the population density of the U.S. is 1/15 that of South Korea and 1/12 that of India and the Netherlands. On the other hand, it is over 8 times higher than that of Canada and over 9 times higher than that of Australia. [1]
Skiier killed, 2 others hurt after falling about 1,000 feet in Alaska avalanche. MARK THIESSEN. February 14, 2024 at 12:16 PM.
Dymaxion map of the world with the 30 largest countries and territories by area. This is a list of the world's countries and their dependencies, ranked by total area, including land and water.
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