The U.S. is the 3rd largest country by land area (behind Russia and Canada), but excepting Alaska, virtually all of our land is quite habitable. That got me wo

The U.S. is the 3rd largest country by land area (behind Russia and Canada), but excepting Alaska, virtually all of our land is quite habitable. That got me wondering: where does the US sit if Alaska is excluded? Turns out that Alaska is about 663,000 square miles (or 1.7 million square kilometers), which moves the US from #3 to #5, below China and Brazil. Ranking: http://www.geohive.com/earth/area_top50.aspx http://www.geohive.com/earth/area_top50.aspx Other interesting land area: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Land_use_statistics_by_country https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Land_use_statistics_by_country