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This list ranks U.S. cities by land area (not including bodies of water). Total areas are also given. If ranked by total area, a number of coastal cities would appear disproportionately "larger". San Francisco is an extreme example; water makes up nearly 80% of its total area of 232 mi² (601 km²). Not surprisingly, the list is headed by consolidated city-counties, cases where a city comprises the whole area of a county (or county equivalent), which may include significant portions of rural areas or even wilderness. Without the benefit of such amalgamations, the largest cities are Oklahoma City, Houston, Phoenix, Los Angeles and San Antonio - all western cities that have had few or no geographical constraints to their expansion, whose greatest growth has occurred in the postwar automobile age, and which have had relatively little competition from their neighbors to annex additional land. See also List of United States cities by population.
Source All data is provided by the United States Census Bureau and is current as of 2000. City-data.com list | ||||||||
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