How Big Is the USA on Saturn and Jupiter?

On Saturn the USA would cover only about 0.023% of the planet, and on Jupiter just 0.016%. Saturn's surface is about 4,300 times the area of the USA, and Jupiter's is about 6,200 times. Placed on either gas giant at true size, the United States becomes a tiny speck.

The USA on Saturn in TrueSize.

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The numbers

World	Radius	Diameter vs Earth	Surface area	USA covers
Saturn	58,232 km	9.14 times	about 42.6 billion km²	about 0.023%
Jupiter	69,911 km	10.97 times	about 61.4 billion km²	about 0.016%
Earth	6,371 km	1	about 510 million km²	about 1.9%

The surface area is calculated from the radius. The USA is about 9.83 million km² (a well-known published total). Africa would cover about 0.07% of Saturn and about 0.05% of Jupiter.

What "surface" means here

Jupiter and Saturn are gas giants and have no solid ground. TrueSize shows the cloud tops, and the area is the area of that visible sphere. The same applies to Uranus and Neptune. Their images come from Solar System Scope textures (CC BY 4.0).

The Sun is even larger. Its diameter is about 109 times Earth's, and the USA would cover about 0.00016% of its photosphere.

The USA on Jupiter: about 0.016% of the planet.

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Why you have to zoom in

Surface area grows with the square of the radius. Jupiter is about 11 times as wide as Earth, so its surface is about 120 times Earth's. A country moved onto it keeps its real area, so it ends up looking minuscule. You may need to zoom in to see it at all.

Try it yourself

1. Search for the USA in the Home search box and add it.
2. Open the Fun tab, click Planets, and choose Saturn or Jupiter.
3. Zoom in on it, then use the ‹ and › buttons beside the picker to see the same country on another world.

Planet mode works on the web version only. Use Return to Earth to go back.

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More comparisons

• How big is the USA on the Moon?
• How big is Russia on Mars?
• The Soviet Union was bigger than Pluto
• Compare Countries on the Moon, Mars and Other Planets

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