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Land and Water Area of States, 2000(in square miles)State | Rank (total area) | Land1 area | Water2 area | Total area |
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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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