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Largest US States by Area Quiz

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  1. Alaska 665,384 sq mi
    Has more coastline than all the other states combined.
  2. Texas 268,596 sq mi
    Has 254 counties, more than any other state.
  3. California 163,695 sq mi
    Holds both the highest and lowest points in the lower 48, Mount Whitney and Badwater Basin.
  4. Montana 147,040 sq mi
    Water from Triple Divide Peak in Glacier National Park flows to three different oceans.
  5. New Mexico 121,590 sq mi
    White Sands is the largest gypsum dunefield in the world.
  6. Arizona 113,990 sq mi
    The Grand Canyon is up to 18 miles wide and more than a mile deep.
  7. Nevada 110,572 sq mi
    The federal government owns about 80% of its land.
  8. Colorado 104,094 sq mi
    Has the highest average elevation of any state.
  9. Oregon 98,379 sq mi
    Crater Lake is the deepest lake in the US.
  10. Wyoming 97,813 sq mi
    Is home to most of Yellowstone, the world's first national park.
  11. Michigan 96,714 sq mi
    Touches four of the five Great Lakes.
  12. Minnesota 86,936 sq mi
    Called the Land of 10,000 Lakes, it actually has more than 11,000.
  13. Utah 84,897 sq mi
    The Great Salt Lake is saltier than the ocean.
  14. Idaho 83,569 sq mi
    Hells Canyon, on its western border, is deeper than the Grand Canyon.
  15. Kansas 82,278 sq mi
    Is literally flatter than a pancake, according to a 2003 study.
  16. Nebraska 77,348 sq mi
    The Sandhills are the largest area of sand dunes in the Western Hemisphere.
  17. South Dakota 77,116 sq mi
    Jewel Cave, under its Black Hills, is one of the longest caves on Earth.
  18. Washington 71,298 sq mi
    Mount Rainier is the most glaciated peak in the lower 48.
  19. North Dakota 70,698 sq mi
    The town of Rugby claims to be the geographic center of North America.
  20. Oklahoma 69,899 sq mi
    Its panhandle was once "No Man's Land," a strip that belonged to no state or territory.
  21. Missouri 69,707 sq mi
    The Missouri and Mississippi, the two longest US rivers, meet just north of St. Louis.
  22. Florida 65,758 sq mi
    The Everglades is the only place where alligators and crocodiles live side by side.
  23. Wisconsin 65,496 sq mi
    Has more than 15,000 lakes.
  24. Georgia 59,425 sq mi
    The Okefenokee Swamp is the largest blackwater swamp in North America.
  25. Illinois 57,914 sq mi
    Chicago reversed the flow of its river away from Lake Michigan.
  26. Iowa 56,273 sq mi
    Usually grows more corn than any other state.
  27. New York 54,555 sq mi
    Its Adirondack Park is bigger than Yellowstone, Yosemite, Glacier and Grand Canyon national parks combined.
  28. North Carolina 53,819 sq mi
    Mount Mitchell is the highest peak east of the Mississippi River.
  29. Arkansas 53,179 sq mi
    Has a state park where you can dig for diamonds and keep what you find.
  30. Alabama 52,420 sq mi
    In 1954 a meteorite crashed through a roof in Sylacauga and bruised a woman napping on her couch.
  31. Louisiana 52,378 sq mi
    Loses about a football field of coastal land to the sea every 100 minutes.
  32. Mississippi 48,432 sq mi
    Barq's root beer was first bottled in Biloxi in 1898.
  33. Pennsylvania 46,054 sq mi
    Is the only one of the original 13 colonies that doesn't touch the Atlantic Ocean.
  34. Ohio 44,826 sq mi
    Serpent Mound, a quarter-mile-long ancient earthwork, is the largest serpent effigy in the world.
  35. Virginia 42,775 sq mi
    The Chesapeake Bay Bridge-Tunnel carries drivers about 17.6 miles across open water.
  36. Tennessee 42,144 sq mi
    Borders eight other states, tied with Missouri for the most.
  37. Kentucky 40,408 sq mi
    Mammoth Cave is the longest known cave system on Earth.
  38. Indiana 36,420 sq mi
    Indiana Dunes, on Lake Michigan's shore, became a national park in 2019.
  39. Maine 35,380 sq mi
    Mount Katahdin marks the northern end of the 2,000-mile Appalachian Trail.
  40. South Carolina 32,020 sq mi
    Congaree National Park protects the largest old-growth bottomland hardwood forest in the Southeast.
  41. West Virginia 24,230 sq mi
    Is the only state that lies entirely within the Appalachian region.
  42. Maryland 12,406 sq mi
    Is nearly cut in two at Hancock, where the state is less than 2 miles wide.
  43. Hawaii 10,932 sq mi
    Is the only state made entirely of islands.
  44. Massachusetts 10,554 sq mi
    The Cape Cod Canal, opened in 1914, technically turned Cape Cod into an island.
  45. Vermont 9,616 sq mi
    Makes more maple syrup than any other state.
  46. New Hampshire 9,349 sq mi
    Mount Washington's 231 mph wind gust in 1934 stood as a world record for 62 years.
  47. New Jersey 8,723 sq mi
    The Pine Barrens cover more than a million acres of the most densely populated state.
  48. Connecticut 5,543 sq mi
    The Frisbee traces back to pie tins from the Frisbie Pie Company in Bridgeport.
  49. Delaware 2,489 sq mi
    Its northern border with Pennsylvania is a near-perfect arc called the Twelve-Mile Circle.
  50. Rhode Island 1,545 sq mi
    Despite the name, most of it isn't an island.

Source: US Census Bureau: State Area Measurements (2010) · as of 2010

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