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Alaska Is Big! 1 You could fit Texas into Alaska 2 times! One-fifth the size of the Lower 48, Alaska is bigger than Texas, California, and Montana combined! 2 Alaska is also far-flung: 3.1 times wider (east to west) and 1.9 times taller (north to south) than Texas. Confidence votes 236K. Texas has an area of 268,820 square miles or 696,241 square kilometers. (square miles) All United States: 3,537,438.44: 1: Alaska: 571,951.26: 2: Texas: 261,797.12: 3: California: 155,959.34: 4: Montana: 145,552.43: 5: New Mexico: 121,355.53: 6: Arizona: 113,634.57: 7: Nevada: 109,825.99: 8: Colorado: 103,717.53: 9: Wyoming: 97,100.40: 10: Oregon: 95,996.79: 11: Idaho: 82,747.21: 12: Utah: 82,143.65: 13: Kansas: 81,814.88: 14: Minnesota: 79,610.08: 15: Nebraska: 76,872.41: 16: South Dakota: 75,884.64: 17: North Dakota Texas is enormous, but it's hard sometimes to put its size in perspective: just listing the distance from, say, El Paso to Beaumont (824 miles!), and noting how it compares to the distance from Dallas to Sioux Falls, SD (841 miles!) doesn't quite do the trick unless you've done both drives, it's still kind of abstract. Square Miles: 1: Alaska: 663,267: 2: Texas: 268,581: 3: California: 163,696: 4: Montana: 147,042: 5: New Mexico: 121,589: 6: Arizona: 113,998: 7: Nevada: 110,561: 8: Colorado: 104,094: 9: Oregon: 98,381: 10: Wyoming: 97,814: 11: Michigan: 96,716: 12: Minnesota: 86,939: 13: Utah: 84,899: 14: Idaho: 83,570: 15: Kansas: 82,277: 16: Nebraska: 77,354: 17: South Dakota: 77,117: 18: Washington: 71,300: 19: North Dakota: 70,700: 20: Oklahoma: 69,898: 21: Missouri: 69,704: 22: Florida Area (Sq Miles) 1: Alaska: 571,951: 2: Texas: 261,797: 3: California: 155,959: 4: Montana: 145,552: 5: New Mexico: 121,356: 6: Arizona: 113,635: 7: Nevada: 109,826: 8: Colorado: 103,718: 9: Wyoming: 97,100: 10: Oregon: 95,997: 11: Idaho: 82,747: 12: Utah: 82,144: 13: Kansas: 81,815: 14: Minnesota: 79,610: 15: Nebraska: 76,872: 16: South Dakota: 75,885: 17: North Dakota: 68,976: 18: Missouri: 68,886: 19: Oklahoma: 68,667: 20: Washington: 66,544: 21: Georgia: 57,906: 22 It's about 500 miles shorter to drive from Green Bay, Wisconsin to New Orleans than it is to drive from one end of Texas to the other and back. It's about 500 miles shorter to drive from Green Bay, Wisconsin to New Orleans than it is to drive from one end of Texas to the other and back. Photo: Google Maps Image 17 of 17 Actually, it's not quite Rhode Island, which covers about 1,200 square miles. But the smallest state has only five counties, while Waggoner Ranch occupies parts of six. From there, Waggoner's stats get more impressive. That's about 57% the size of California (423,970 square kilometers). From the southern tip of England to the northern end of Scotland would stretch from Los Angeles to the Oregon border. Comparing the sizes of the United Kingdom and California. Molly Hennessy-FiskeContact Reporter. For sale: the biggest American ranch ever put on the block -- larger than Los Angeles and New York City combined -- nearly 800 square miles of north Texas prairie, cattle pasture and, of course, oil fields. Price tag: $725 million, more than quadruple the biggest public sale of a U.S. ranch to date. Query: how large is the texas in square miles
Texas has an area of 268,820 square miles.