Alaska vs us size comparison. Source for size land area and water area. United states contiguous 48 is 52 times larger than alaska usa. Alaska is approximately 1481348 sq km while united states is approximately 9833517 sq km making united states 564 larger than alaska.
You may be the biggest state in the contiguous us but if we take the whole union into account youre well behind alaska. In the case of many map projections alaska appears to be more than half the size of the lower 48 states when in reality the continental us is 47 times as large. State situated in the northwest extremity of the north american continent.
Its hard to comprehend just how big alaska is by looking at numbers 663268 square miles or the flawed mercator projection of the world so reddit user tgj01 created the map below for us to get a more realistic idea of the real size of alaska. Size comparison alaska is about 7 times smaller than united states. Size comparison united states is about 7 times bigger than alaska.
Population housing units area and density. 2000 data set. Came into public consciousness in 1967 when arno peters championed it as a more accurate representation of the size of.
According to a neat overlay map posted to reddit by user martinswfan you can fit 30 european countries into the continental us. Alaska x the contiguous united states. Meanwhile the population of alaska is 710231 people 3259 million more people live in united states.
Alaska is a us. Meanwhile the population of united states is 3266 million people 3259 million fewer people live in alaska. 735132 july 2013 us census.
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But when you look at most two dimensional maps alaska actually looks much larger than that. Census 2000 summary file 1 sf 1 100 percent data. United states is approximately 9833517 sq km while alaska is approximately 1481348 sq km making alaska 1506 the size of united states.
Its easy to forget how large the united states is for one country especially when you compare it to a continent like europe thats made up of so many smaller countries. United states states. At 663300 square miles alaska is by far the largest state in the united states nearly two and a half times as large as texas.