Alaska Is Big!
- You could fit Delaware into Alaska 264 times! One-fifth the size of the Lower 48, Alaska is bigger than Texas, California, and Montana combined!
- Alaska is also far-flung: 65.2 times wider (east to west) and 13.4 times taller (north to south) than Delaware. From north to south, Alaska measures 1420 miles, the distance from Denver to Mexico City, and east to west 2500 miles, the distance from Savannah, GA to Santa Barbara, CA. See detailed Alaska maps.
- Alaska also has the most northern point (Point Barrow) and the most western point (Cape Wrangell, Alaska -- further west than Hawaii) in the U.S.
Water & Coastline
- Alaska has 170 times as much inland water (in lakes, reservoirs, and rivers) as Delaware. In fact, Alaska has 3 million lakes over twenty acres big.
- Alaska has more than 50% of the entire U.S. coastline, or 6,640 miles. Delaware has 28 miles of coastline!
Population Density
- Delaware has 332 times more people per square mile.
- If Delaware's population density were the same as Alaska’s, only 2,460 people would live in Delaware rather than 817,491 (based on 2003 data).
High Point
- Alaska’s high point, Mt. Denali (20,320 feet), rises 3.8 miles above Delaware’s high point, Ebright Azimuth, at 442 feet.
- Not only is Mt. Denali the highest mountain in North America, but Alaska has 15 other peaks higher than any in the continental U.S.
Road Density
- Alaska has 640 sq. miles of land for every mile of paved road. Delaware has 8 sq. miles of land for every mile of road. In other words, Alaska’s land-to-road ratio is 82.1 times greater.
- Only 20% of Alaska’s roads are paved versus on average 91% for the other 49 states. During the long, cold grip of winter, Alaskans build ice roads to traverse rivers and ground that is otherwise too soft to drive.
Air Travel
- Alaska has 7.1 times more active pilots per capita than Delaware.
- Alaska has 102 seaplane bases, far more than any other state.
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50 State Rankings for Size
The sizes of the 50 states in square miles. (Read across row for state rank in each category.) | ||||||
1 | Alaska | 656,424 | Alaska | 570,374 | Alaska | 86,051 |
2 | Texas | 268,601 | Texas | 261,914 | Michigan | 40,001 |
3 | California | 163,707 | California | 155,973 | Wisconsin | 11,190 |
4 | Montana | 147,046 | Montana | 145,556 | Louisiana | 8,277 |
5 | New Mexico | 121,598 | New Mexico | 121,365 | California | 7,734 |
6 | Arizona | 114,006 | Arizona | 113,642 | Minnesota | 7,326 |
7 | Nevada | 110,567 | Nevada | 109,806 | New York | 7,251 |
8 | Colorado | 104,100 | Colorado | 103,730 | Texas | 6,687 |
9 | Oregon | 98,386 | Wyoming | 97,105 | Florida | 5,991 |
10 | Wyoming | 97,818 | Oregon | 96,003 | Washington | 4,721 |
11 | Michigan | 96,810 | Idaho | 82,751 | Maine | 4,523 |
12 | Minnesota | 86,943 | Utah | 82,168 | North Carolina | 3,954 |
13 | Utah | 84,904 | Kansas | 81,823 | Ohio | 3,875 |
14 | Idaho | 83,574 | Minnesota | 79,617 | Virginia | 3,171 |
15 | Kansas | 82,282 | Nebraska | 76,878 | Utah | 2,736 |
16 | Nebraska | 77,358 | South Dakota | 75,898 | Massachusetts | 2,717 |
17 | South Dakota | 77,121 | North Dakota | 68,994 | Maryland | 2,633 |
18 | Washington | 71,303 | Missouri | 68,898 | Oregon | 2,383 |
19 | North Dakota | 70,704 | Oklahoma | 68,679 | Illinois | 2,325 |
20 | Oklahoma | 69,903 | Washington | 66,582 | South Carolina | 1,896 |
21 | Missouri | 69,709 | Georgia | 57,919 | North Dakota | 1,710 |
22 | Wisconsin | 65,503 | Michigan | 56,809 | Alabama | 1,673 |
23 | Florida | 59,988 | Iowa | 55,875 | Georgia | 1,522 |
24 | Georgia | 59,441 | Illinois | 55,593 | Mississippi | 1,520 |
25 | Illinois | 57,918 | Wisconsin | 54,314 | Montana | 1,490 |
26 | Iowa | 56,276 | Florida | 53,997 | New Jersey | 1,303 |
27 | New York | 54,475 | Arkansas | 52,075 | Pennsylvania | 1,239 |
28 | Arkansas | 53,182 | Alabama | 50,750 | South Dakota | 1,224 |
29 | North Carolina | 52,672 | North Carolina | 48,718 | Oklahoma | 1,224 |
30 | Alabama | 52,423 | New York | 47,224 | Arkansas | 1,107 |
31 | Louisiana | 51,843 | Mississippi | 46,914 | Tennessee | 926 |
32 | Mississippi | 48,434 | Pennsylvania | 44,820 | Idaho | 823 |
33 | Pennsylvania | 46,058 | Louisiana | 43,566 | Missouri | 811 |
34 | Ohio | 44,828 | Tennessee | 41,220 | Nevada | 761 |
35 | Virginia | 42,769 | Ohio | 40,953 | Wyoming | 714 |
36 | Tennessee | 42,146 | Kentucky | 39,732 | Connecticut | 698 |
37 | Kentucky | 40,411 | Virginia | 39,598 | Kentucky | 679 |
38 | Indiana | 36,420 | Indiana | 35,870 | Indiana | 550 |
39 | Maine | 35,387 | Maine | 30,865 | Delaware | 535 |
40 | South Carolina | 32,007 | South Carolina | 30,111 | Rhode Island | 500 |
41 | West Virginia | 24,231 | West Virginia | 24,087 | Nebraska | 481 |
42 | Maryland | 12,407 | Maryland | 9,775 | Kansas | 459 |
43 | Massachusetts | 10,555 | Vermont | 9,249 | Iowa | 401 |
44 | Vermont | 9,615 | New Hampshire | 8,969 | New Hampshire | 382 |
45 | New Hampshire | 9,351 | Massachusetts | 7,838 | Colorado | 371 |
46 | New Jersey | 8,722 | New Jersey | 7,419 | Vermont | 366 |
47 | Hawaii | 6,459 | Hawaii | 6,423 | Arizona | 364 |
48 | Connecticut | 5,544 | Connecticut | 4,845 | New Mexico | 234 |
49 | Delaware | 2,489 | Delaware | 1,955 | West Virginia | 145 |
50 | Rhode Island | 1,545 | Rhode Island | 1,045 | Hawaii | 36 |
Information source: Carpenter, Alan, and Carl Provorse. The World Almanac of the U.S.A.. Mahwah: World Almanac Books, 1996. Print. |
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