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United States vs Wisconsin Geography
Land area
- United States has a land area of 3,533,467 square miles (9,151,637 km²), while Wisconsin has 54,168 square miles (140,294 km²).
- United States' land area is 65.2 times larger than Wisconsin's.
Total area
- United States: 3,802,784 square miles (9,849,165 km²) vs Wisconsin: 65,497 square miles (169,636 km²), including inland and coastal water.
- United States' total area is 58.1 times larger than Wisconsin's.
Length
- United States is 3,628 miles (5,839 km) long from north to south; Wisconsin is 368 miles (593 km).
- United States' north-south length is 9.9 times (886%) longer than Wisconsin's.
Width
- United States spans 4,824 miles (7,763 km) east to west; Wisconsin spans 323 miles (521 km).
- United States' east-west width is 14.9 times wider than Wisconsin's.
Highest point
- United States's highest point is Denali at 20,308 feet (6,190 m); Wisconsin's is Timms Hill at 1,946 feet (593 m).
- Denali is 18,362 feet higher than Timms Hill.
Lowest point
- United States's lowest point is Death Valley at -279 feet; Wisconsin's is Lake Michigan at 577 feet.
- United States's lowest point is 856 feet lower.
United States vs Wisconsin Population and History
Population
- United States has a population of 340,110,988 (2024), while Wisconsin has 5,960,975 (2024).
- United States' population is 57.1 times larger than Wisconsin's.
Population density
- United States: 96.3 people per square mile vs Wisconsin: 110.0.
- Wisconsin's population density is 1.1 times (14%) higher than United States'.
Biggest city
- United States's biggest city is New York with 8,478,072 people; Wisconsin's is Milwaukee with 563,531.
- New York's population is 15.0 times larger than Milwaukee's.
Largest metro area
- United States's largest metropolitan area is New York-Newark-Jersey City, NY-NJ metro area (19,940,274 people) vs Wisconsin's Minneapolis-St. Paul-Bloomington, MN-WI metro area (3,757,952).
- New York-Newark-Jersey City, NY-NJ metro area's population is 5.3 times (431%) larger than Minneapolis-St. Paul-Bloomington, MN-WI metro area's.
History
- United States: Declared independence on July 4, 1776.
- Wisconsin: Admitted to the Union on May 29, 1848, as the 30th state.
- In its current form, United States is the older of the two by 72 years.
United States vs Wisconsin Economy
GDP
- United States's GDP is $30,769.7 billion (2025) vs Wisconsin's $453.3 billion.
- United States' economic output is 67.9 times larger than Wisconsin's.
GDP per capita
- United States: $89,599 per person vs Wisconsin: $76,044.
- United States' GDP per capita is 1.2 times (18%) higher than Wisconsin's.
Official Websites
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