 Alaska is the largest state in the United States in terms of land area at , over twice (roughly 2.47 times) as large as Texas, the next largest state, and is the seventh largest country subdivision in the world, and the third largest in North America, about 20.4% smaller than Denmark's autonomous country of Greenland and 17.6% smaller than Canada's largest territory of Nunavut.If the state's westernmost point were superimposed on San Francisco, California, its easternmost point would be in Jacksonville, Florida.Alaska is larger than all but 18 sovereign nations (it is slightly larger than Iran but slightly smaller than Libya).