List of United States cities by area
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This list ranks the top 150 U.S. cities (incorporated places) by 2025 land area. Total areas including water are also given, but when ranked by total area, a number of coastal cities appear disproportionately larger. San Francisco is an extreme example: water makes up nearly 80% of its total area of 232 square miles (601 km2).
In many cases an incorporated place is geographically large because its municipal government has merged with the government of the surrounding county. In some cases the county no longer exists, while in others the arrangement has formed a consolidated city-county (or city-borough in Alaska, or city-parish in Louisiana); these are shown in bold. Some consolidated city-counties, however, include multiple incorporated places. In such cases, this list presents only that portion (or “balance”) of such consolidated city-counties that are not a part of another incorporated place; these are indicated with asterisks (*). Cities that are not consolidated with or part of any county are independent cities, indicated with two asterisks (**).
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All data is from the United States census.<ref>"Places" dataset at Census Gazetteer Files, dated September 8, 2025.</ref><ref>2020: DEC Redistricting Data (PL 94-171) Table 1: Race</ref>
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See also
- United States of America
- Largest cities in the United States by population by decade
- List of cities proper by population (most populous cities in the World)
- List of lists of settlements in the United States