Top 20 metropolitan areas in the United States in 2010, by land area

This statistics shows a list of the top 20 largest-metropolitan areas in the United States in 2010, by land area. Riverside-San Bernardino-Ontario in California was ranked first enclosing an area of 70,612 square kilometers.

Top 20 metropolitan areas in the United States in 2010, by land area (in square km)

Characteristic	Land Area in square kilometers
Riverside-San Bernardino-Ontario, CA	70,612
Phoenix-Mesa-Scottsdale, AZ	37,725
Albuquerque, NM	24,042
Dallas-Fort Worth-Arlington, TX	24,029
Tucson, AZ	23,794
Atlanta-Sandy Springs-Roswell, GA	22,498
Denver-Aurora-Lakewood, CO	21,616
New York-Newark-Jersey City, NY-NJ-PA	21,480
Houston-The Woodlands-Sugar Land, TX	21,388
Bakersfield, CA	21,062
Las Vegas-Henderson-Paradise, NV	20,439
St. Louis, MO-IL	20,366
Salt Lake City, UT	19,901
Minneapolis-St. Paul-Bloomington, MN-WI	19,779
San Antonio-New Braunfels, TX	18,941
Kansas City, MO-KS	18,793
Chicago-Naperville-Elgin, IL-IN-WI	18,638
Portland-Vancouver-Hillsboro, OR-WA	17,311
Nashville-Davidson--Murfreesboro--Franklin, TN	16,320
Tulsa, OK	16,237

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February 2016

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United States

Survey time period

2010

Supplementary notes

According to the source, Land area is updated every 10 years.
Data has been converted from Square Miles to Square Kilometers.
1 Square Mile = 2.589 Square Kilometer.

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