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Land and Water Area of States, 2000

(in square miles)

State Rank
(total
area)
Land1
area
Water2
area
Total
area
Alabama 30 50,744.00 1,675.01 52,419.02
Alaska 1 571,951.26 91,316.00 663,267.26
Arizona 6 113,634.57 363.73 113,998.30
Arkansas 29 52,068.17 1,110.45 53,178.62
California 3 155,959.34 7,736.23 163,695.57
Colorado 8 103,717.53 376.04 104,093.57
Connecticut 48 4,844.80 698.53 5,543.33
Delaware 49 1,953.56 535.71 2,489.27
Dist. of
 Columbia
61.4 6.94 68.34
Florida 22 53,926.82 11,827.77 65,754.59
Georgia 24 57,906.14 1,518.63 59,424.77
Hawaii 43 6,422.62 4,508.36 10,930.98
Idaho 14 82,747.21 822.87 83,570.08
Illinois 25 55,583.58 2,330.79 57,914.38
Indiana 38 35,866.90 550.83 36,417.73
Iowa 26 55,869.36 402.2 56,271.55
Kansas 15 81,814.88 461.96 82,276.84
Kentucky 37 39,728.18 680.85 40,409.02
Louisiana 31 43,561.85 8,277.85 51,839.70
Maine 39 30,861.55 4,523.10 35,384.65
Maryland 42 9,773.82 2,632.86 12,406.68
Massachusetts 44 7,840.02 2,714.55 10,554.57
Michigan 11 56,803.82 39,912.28 96,716.11
Minnesota 12 79,610.08 7,328.79 86,938.87
Mississippi 32 46,906.96 1,523.24 48,430.19
Missouri 21 68,885.93 818.39 69,704.31
Montana 4 145,552.43 1,489.96 147,042.40
Nebraska 16 76,872.41 481.31 77,353.73
Nevada 7 109,825.99 734.71 110,560.71
New
 Hampshire
46 8,968.10 381.84 9,349.94
New Jersey 47 7,417.34 1,303.96 8,721.30
New Mexico 5 121,355.53 233.96 121,589.48
New York 27 47,213.79 7,342.22 54,556.00
North Carolina 28 48,710.88 5,107.63 53,818.51
North Dakota 19 68,975.93 1,723.86 70,699.79
Ohio 34 40,948.38 3,876.53 44,824.90
Oklahoma 20 68,667.06 1,231.13 69,898.19
Oregon 9 95,996.79 2,383.85 98,380.64
Pennsylvania 33 44,816.61 1,238.63 46,055.24
Rhode Island 50 1,044.93 500.12 1,545.05
South Carolina 40 30,109.47 1,910.73 32,020.20
South Dakota 17 75,884.64 1,231.85 77,116.49
Tennessee 36 41,217.12 926.15 42,143.27
Texas 2 261,797.12 6,783.70 268,580.82
Utah 13 82,143.65 2,755.18 84,898.83
Vermont 45 9,249.56 364.7 9,614.26
Virginia 35 39,594.07 3,180.13 42,774.20
Washington 18 66,544.06 4,755.58 71,299.64
West Virginia 41 24,077.73 152.03 24,229.76
Wisconsin 23 54,310.10 11,187.72 65,497.82
Wyoming 10 97,100.40 713.16 97,813.56
U.S. total   3,537,438.44 256,644.62 3,794,083.06
1. Dry land and land temporarily or partially covered by water, such as marshland, swamps, etc.; streams and canals under one-eighth statute mile wide; and lakes, reservoirs, and ponds under 40 acres.
2. Permanent inland water surface, such as lakes, reservoirs, and ponds having an area of 40 acres or more; streams, sloughs, estuaries, and canals one-eighth statute mile or more in width; deeply indented embayments and sounds, and other coastal waters behind or sheltered by headlands or islands separated by less than 1 nautical mile of water, and islands under 40 acres in area. Excludes areas of oceans, bays, sounds, etc. lying within U.S. jurisdiction but not defined as inland water.
Source: Department of Commerce, Bureau of the Census.

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