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20 sie 2023 · If you’re short on time, here’s a quick answer to your question: Texas comprises approximately 171 million acres of land and inland water area. That’s nearly 268,000 square miles of terrain contained within the state’s boundaries.
This is a complete list of all 50 U.S. states, its federal district (Washington D.C.) and its major territories ordered by total area, land area and water area. The water area includes inland waters , coastal waters , the Great Lakes and territorial waters .
This page lists the total size (land plus water) and the land area for the 50 US states. Shows the list of US states by size. Data is shown both for overall (land plus water) size and land area.
Texas covers a total area of 268,581 square miles (695,622 km 2). The longest straight-line distance is from the northwest corner of the panhandle to the Rio Grande river just below Brownsville, 801 miles (1,289 km).
14 sty 2015 · 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 with the distance ...
Texas is the second-largest U.S. state by area, after Alaska, and the largest state within the contiguous United States, at 268,820 square miles (696,200 km 2). If it were an independent country, Texas would be the 39th-largest . [153]
The total land surface area of Earth is about 57,308,738 square miles, of which about 24% is mountainous and about 33% is desert. Subtracting this uninhabitable 57% (32,665,981 mi 2) from the total land area leaves 24,642,757 square miles or 15.77 billion acres of habitable land.
