List of US states by size square miles

A state of the United States is one of the 50 constituent entities that shares its sovereignty with the federal government.

Americans are citizens of both the federal republic and of the state in which they reside, due to the shared sovereignty between each state and the federal government.

Each state is represented by two Senators, and at least one Representative, while the size of a state's House delegation depends on its total population, as determined by the most recent constitutionally mandated decennial census.

Each state is entitled to select a number of electors to vote in the Electoral College, the body that elects the President of the United States, equal to the total of Representatives and Senators in Congress from that state.

Each new state has been admitted on an equal footing with the existing states.

The first 13 became states in July 1776 upon agreeing to the United States Declaration of Independence, and each joined the first Union of states between 1777 and 1781, upon ratifying the Articles of Confederation, its first constitution.

US states ordered by area 

The list is from the biggest state to the smallest state, in square miles (Land Area).

Alaska    570,641 

Texas    261,914 

California    155,973 

Montana    145,556 

New Mexico    121,365 

Arizona    113,642 

Nevada    109,806 

Colorado    103,730 

Wyoming    97,105 

Oregon    96,003 

Idaho    82,751 

Utah    82,168 

Kansas    81,823 

Minnesota    79,617 

Nebraska    76,878 

South Dakota    75,898 

North Dakota    68,994 

Missouri    68,898 

Oklahoma    68,679 

Washington    66,582 

Georgia    57,919 

Michigan    56,539 

Iowa    55,875 

Illinois    55,593 

Wisconsin    54,314 

Florida    53,997 

Arkansas    52,075 

Alabama    50,750 

North Carolina    48,718 

New York    47,224 

Mississippi    46,914 

Pennsylvania    44,820 

Louisiana    43,566 

Tennessee    41,220 

Ohio    40,953 

Kentucky    39,732 

Virginia    39,598 

Indiana    35,870 

Maine    30,865 

South Carolina    30,111 

West Virginia    24,087 

Maryland    9,775 

Vermont    9,249 

New Hampshire    8,969 

Massachusetts    7,838 

New Jersey    7,419 

Hawaii    6,423 

Connecticut    4,845 

Delaware    1,955 

Rhode Island    1,034