True size comparison
Texas vs Europe
Texas covers about 7% of Europe’s area. Compare the figures and move Texas across a map of Europe to explore its size beside individual countries.
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Europe is about 14.4 times the area of Texas.
How big is Texas compared with Europe?
Texas is large enough to make an interesting comparison with individual European countries, but it is much smaller than the whole continent. An overlay also reveals something a single area number cannot: a territory’s shape affects which borders it reaches when you move or rotate it.
By these reference figures, Texas covers about 7.0% of Europe’s area. This is an area ratio, rather than a count of outlines that can fit neatly inside one another.
Try the comparison yourself
The prepared map places Texas over central Europe. Drag it toward France, Germany, or Spain to compare the outlines. Add another country from the search tool to put both territories at the same latitude.
See the map controlsArea, with context
- Texas
- 695,662 km²
- Total land and water area from the 2010 Census area measurements.
- U.S. Census Bureau — State Area Measurements (2010)
- Europe
- 10,000,000 km²
- Approximate area of the geographic continent, including European Russia; not the European Union.
- Continental area estimates (Britannica figures reproduced by Wikipedia)
Ratios are calculated from these reference figures and rounded. Continental definitions, water coverage, and boundary datasets can differ, so the map outlines may not match the reference areas exactly. Learn more about our boundary data.