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This list ranks the top 150 U.S. cities (incorporated places) by 2023 land area. Total areas including water are also given, but when ranked by total area, a number of coastal cities appear disproportionately larger.
Houston, TX (599.6 mi²) Phoenix, AZ (516.7 mi²) The largest city in the United States by area is Sitka, Alaska. Sitka spans over 2,870.3 mi² (7,434.04 km²) but has a population of about only 10,000 people.
Top 100 Cities Ranked by Land area in square miles, 2010. About this page: Rankings of the 100 largest American cities using frequently requested population, demographic, and social indicators from the United States Census Bureau.
- New York City, New York – 8.62 million. New York was one of the original 13 colonies in the 1600s, and it played a crucial role – both in politics and battle – during the American Revolution.
- Los Angeles, California – 4.08 million. Former Spanish settlement Los Angeles is the US’s second-largest city by population and the west coast’s biggest economic powerhouse.
- Chicago, Illinois – 2.67 million. Chicago is the biggest city in the American Midwest, and it was founded in 1830. It was established as a water transit hub and later evolved into an industrial metropolis, processing and transporting the raw materials for its vast infrastructures.
- Houston, Texas – 2.37 million. Houston’s first settlement – Harrisburg – was destroyed in 1836 by the Mexican general Antonio Lopez de Santa Anna in pursuit of Sam Houston and the Texas army.
The massiveness of Alaska's land area reflects in its cities, with Sitka topping the list at 2,870.3 mi², followed by Juneau, Wrangell, and Anchorage. Jacksonville, Florida, is the most expansive city in the contiguous United States, with a land area of 747.0 mi², significantly smaller than the smallest Alaskan city in the top rankings ...
Image Source: Bitterroot. What Anaconda lacks in notoriety, it makes up for in land mass, outpacing more notable cities like New York and Los Angeles in land area which totals 735.6 square miles. Even my Montana standards, Anaconda does not have a particularly large population.
Largest Urbanized Areas With Selected Cities and Metro Areas November 15, 2012
