State of the United States

Texas

Texas is a state of the United States. It covers about 685,000 km² (265,000 mi²), the 2nd largest of the 51 states and districts in Natural Earth’s file for the United States, and 1.03× the size of Myanmar. About 29.1 million people live there (Wikidata, 2020).

In area1.03×the size ofMyanmar663,000 km² In people1.00×as many people asNepal29.2 million

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Facts

Area, measured	685,000 km²265,000 mi²
Official area	696,000 km²Wikidata · agrees with our measure
Share of the United States	7.2%of the area of the 51 states and districts
Rank by area	2nd of 51states and districts of the United States
Population	29.1 millionWikidata, 2020 · the census year of every unit
Density	43 people per km²
Capital	Austin
Latitude range	26°N to 37°N
Type	StateUS-TX

What the numbers say about Texas

Texas covers 7.2% of the area of the United States and ranks 2nd of 51 by both area and population.
It would take 13.8 states and districts the size of Texas to cover the United States.
Texas holds 8.8% of the 331.4 million people that Wikidata’s 2020 figures give for the 51 states and districts together: about 1 in 11.
The largest, Alaska, is 2.20× the size of Texas; the smallest, Washington, D.C., is less than 0.1% of it.
Closest in size within the United States: California (410,000 km², 1.67×) and Montana (379,000 km², 1.81×).
Counted as a country, Texas would be larger than 200 of the 239 countries and territories listed on sizeversus, and would rank 40th by area, between Chile (736,000 km²) and Myanmar (663,000 km²).
With 29.1 million people it would rank 52nd of 238 by population.
Texas has 43 people per km², about the density of Belarus, which has 44 per km².
That makes Texas the 24th most densely populated of the 51 states and districts, 1.21× the average for the United States (35 per km²).
On a standard web map (Web Mercator), a place at 31°N is drawn about 1.4× too large in area, so Texas looks bigger there than it is.
Laid out flat, Texas stretches about 1,190 km north to south and 1,240 km east to west.
Wikidata's official figure of 696,000 km² agrees with our measured area of 685,000 km², to within 2%.

About the same size as

About as many people as

Beside the regions of other countries

The closest region by area and by people in each of the other countries that have regional pages here, within a factor of 2. All 395 regions side by side.

ChinaAreaQinghai0.96× · 714,000 km² PeopleHeilongjiang0.92× · 31.9 million (2020)
IndiaAreaRajasthan2.00× · 343,000 km² PeopleChhattisgarh0.99× · 29.4 million (2020)
GermanyAreanone within 2×PeopleNorth Rhine-Westphalia1.63× · 17.9 million (2022)
BrazilAreaMinas Gerais1.17× · 586,000 km² PeopleMinas Gerais1.42× · 20.5 million (2022)
CanadaAreaAlberta1.03× · 664,000 km²Peoplenone within 2×
AustraliaAreaNew South Wales85% · 802,000 km²Peoplenone within 2×
MexicoAreanone within 2×PeopleState of Mexico1.80× · 16.2 million (2015)

Where Texas ranks

Texas is the 2nd largest of the 51 states and districts of the United States.

Ranked within the United States

All 51 states and districts of the United States, matched to countries

Compare Texas

Sources and method

Outline: Natural Earth, 1:10m Admin 1 - States, Provinces, public domain
Boundary: De facto, as drawn by Natural Earth.
Area: Measured on the WGS84 ellipsoid from the full-detail outline, shown rounded. The region’s whole area is counted, every island included.
Official figures: Area, population and capital from Wikidata (CC0), fetched 2026-11-12
Population: Wikidata, 2020. United States’s units share the 2020 figures where Wikidata has them; the year is shown wherever the figure is.
Matching: Countries come from Natural Earth’s country file. Places whose status is contested and dependencies are never used as automatic matches. A region under 2,500 km² is matched against the small countries and island nations.
Data built: 2026-11-12

Full method