Canada vs United States: which is bigger?
Canada is bigger: 9,984,670 km² against 9,826,675 km², about 1.02 times the size of the United States.
Drop Canada onto the United States →Side by side at true size
Both drawn at the same scale on an equal-area projection.
And on the usual world map
On the usual world map Canada looks 2.3 times bigger, not 1.02: the map inflates Canada about 5.1 times and the United States 2.3 times.
In numbers
- Canada: 9,984,670 km² (3,860,000 sq mi), 2nd largest, around 59°N
- United States: 9,826,675 km² (3,790,000 sq mi), 3rd largest, around 40°N
- The United States would fit into Canada about 1.02 times.
Areas: official totals including inland water (UN Statistics Division via Wikidata). Outlines: Natural Earth. How Globegami works