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Saudi Arabia vs Texas Size: How Much Bigger Is Saudi Arabia?

By Marko Visic · Updated Nov 11, 2026

Saudi Arabia's 830,000 sq mi of land is 3.18× the 261,232 sq mi of Texas, about as much as Texas and Alaska combined. In 2023 Saudi Arabia produced 1.73× as much crude oil as Texas, but in 2025 Texas's economy was 2.30× Saudi Arabia's in US dollars.

Three whole copies of Texas and part of a fourth tiled inside Saudi Arabia. By land area Saudi Arabia is 3.18 times Texas.3.18 Texases fit inside Saudi Arabia by land areaSaudi Arabia 830,000 sq mi · Texas 261,232 sq mi · land areaSaudi Arabia1230.18Each shape = 1 Texassimplemaplab.com/size-comparisons/saudi-arabia-vs-texas · CC-BY 4.0
Three whole Texas outlines and 18% of a fourth tiled inside Saudi Arabia. Each copy is scaled to the area ratio in the table (land area).
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Saudi Arabia vs Texas by the numbers

MetricSaudi ArabiaTexasRatio
Land area (sq mi)830,000261,232Saudi Arabia 3.18×
Total area (sq mi)*830,000268,596Saudi Arabia 3.09×
Population (Saudi Arabia 2024 est.; Texas July 1, 2025)36,544,43131,709,821Saudi Arabia 1.15×
People per sq mi of land44121Texas 2.76×
GDP, current US$ (2025)$1.27T$2.93TTexas 2.30×
GDP per person, current US$$34,849$92,474Texas 2.65×
Crude oil production, 2023 (million barrels a day)9.55.50Saudi Arabia 1.73×
Coastline (mi)1,640 (Factbook)367 (NOAA general coastline)
Standard timeUTC+3UTC-6 and UTC-7

* Texas's Census total counts inland, coastal and territorial water; the Factbook gives Saudi Arabia no water area, so its two area figures match. Each ratio is the larger figure over the smaller; the coastline figures come from different agencies and have none.

Which is bigger: Saudi Arabia or Texas?

Saudi Arabia. By land area it is 3.18× Texas: 830,000 sq mi (2,149,690 km²) against 261,232 sq mi (676,587 km²), so three whole Texases fit inside it with 18% of a fourth to spare. The difference, 568,768 sq mi, is within 1,873 sq mi of the land area of Alaska, which means Texas and Alaska together have 0.2% more land than Saudi Arabia. Total areas, which add Texas's 7,365 sq mi of inland, coastal and territorial water, give 3.09.

Saudi Arabia also has 1.11× the land of Mexico, which in turn has 2.87× the land of Texas (Mexico vs Texas).

Oil: Saudi Arabia produced 1.73× as much crude as Texas in 2023

The US Energy Information Administration puts Saudi Arabia's crude oil production at 9.5 million barrels a day in 2023, a 9% decrease from 10.4 million in 2022 that it attributes to OPEC+ production cuts. The EIA's state series gives Texas 5.50 million barrels a day for 2023, so Saudi Arabia produced 1.73× as much. Texas reached 5.76 million barrels a day in 2025, the latest year in that series; the EIA notes that its Texas estimates differ from the figures the Railroad Commission of Texas reports.

In the EIA's country analysis, Saudi Arabia was the world's third-highest crude oil and condensate producer in 2023, the top crude oil exporter and OPEC's top crude oil producer.

People and the economy

Saudi Arabia had 36,544,431 people in the CIA World Factbook's 2024 estimate, 1.15× Texas's 31,709,821 on July 1, 2025 (Census Bureau). Spread over the land, that is 44 people per square mile in Saudi Arabia and 121 in Texas.

Measured in current US dollars for 2025, Texas's output was $2.93 trillion (Bureau of Economic Analysis) and Saudi Arabia's $1.27 trillion in the IMF World Economic Outlook (October 2026), so Texas's economy was 2.30× as large with fewer people. That works out to about $92,474 per Texan and $34,849 per resident of Saudi Arabia.

Coasts, rivers and time

The CIA World Factbook gives Saudi Arabia 1,640 mi (2,640 km) of coastline on the Persian Gulf and the Red Sea, and calls it the largest country in the world without a river. Texas's Gulf shore measures 367 miles as NOAA's 1975 general coastline and 3,359 miles as tidal shoreline. Because the figures come from charts of different detail, they are not a like-for-like comparison with the Factbook's.

Riyadh keeps UTC+3 (Factbook). Most of Texas is on Central Time, UTC-6, nine hours behind, and El Paso and Hudspeth counties are on Mountain Time, UTC-7, ten hours behind, during US standard time.

Drawn to scale: Saudi Arabia next to Texas

The two shapes at one scale, side by side. On a Mercator world map the gap looks smaller. Texas is farther from the equator, and computed from our map data with a Mercator projection its outline grows 1.38× against 1.21× for Saudi Arabia's, so Saudi Arabia appears about 2.79 times as large as Texas rather than 3.18.

Saudi Arabia and Texas side by side at the same equal-area scale.Saudi Arabia is 3.18× Texas by land areaSaudi Arabia830,000 sq miTexas261,232 sq mi
Saudi Arabia (conic equal-area projection, parallels 18°N and 30°N) and Texas (US Albers, parallels 29.5°N and 45.5°N), drawn at the same scale.

Methodology and sources

Area
Texas and Alaska: US Census Bureau, State Area Measurements and Internal Point Coordinates (2010) (land area; the Texas total adds inland, coastal and territorial water). Saudi Arabia: CIA World Factbook, final edition: Saudi Arabia. Mexico: CIA World Factbook, final edition: Mexico.
Population
Texas: US Census Bureau, Vintage 2025 population estimates (July 1, 2025). Saudi Arabia: CIA World Factbook, 2024 estimate.
GDP
Texas: US Bureau of Economic Analysis, GDP by state (2025, current dollars). Saudi Arabia: IMF World Economic Outlook (October 2026), GDP in current US dollars (2025). GDP per person divides each by the population above.
Crude oil
Texas: US Energy Information Administration, Crude Oil Production, annual, thousand barrels per day (release date October 30, 2026). Saudi Arabia: US Energy Information Administration, Country Analysis: Saudi Arabia (last updated October 4, 2024). Both are crude oil production for 2023.
Coastline, rivers and time
Saudi Arabia: CIA World Factbook, final edition: Saudi Arabia; miles are converted from the Factbook's kilometers. Texas: NOAA, The Coastline of the United States (1975): general coastline by state, as reprinted in Congressional Research Service report RS21729, NOAA Office for Coastal Management, Shoreline Mileage of the United States (tidal shoreline) and Code of Federal Regulations, 49 CFR Part 71, Standard Time Zone Boundaries.
Drawings
Shapes from us-atlas (US Census Bureau cartographic boundaries) and world-atlas (Natural Earth 1:50m) for the drawings, scaled to land area. Mercator factors are computed from the same map data with a Mercator projection.

Frequently asked questions

Yes. By land area Saudi Arabia is 3.18× Texas: 830,000 sq mi (2,149,690 km²) against 261,232 sq mi (676,587 km²). By total area, which adds Texas's inland, coastal and territorial water, the ratio is 3.09.
Saudi Arabia has 568,768 sq mi more land than Texas. That is within 1,873 sq mi of the land area of Alaska (570,641 sq mi), so Texas and Alaska together have about as much land as Saudi Arabia, 0.2% more.
Saudi Arabia. The US Energy Information Administration puts its crude oil production at 9.5 million barrels a day in 2023 and gives Texas 5.50 million for the same year, so Saudi Arabia produced 1.73× as much. Saudi output was down from 10.4 million barrels a day in 2022 under OPEC+ cuts; Texas produced 5.76 million in 2025.
Not in the EIA's ranking. In 2023 the EIA counted Saudi Arabia as the world's third-highest crude oil and condensate producer, the top crude oil exporter and OPEC's top crude oil producer.
Texas, by 2.30×: $2.93 trillion of GDP in 2025 (Bureau of Economic Analysis) against Saudi Arabia's $1.27 trillion in the IMF World Economic Outlook (October 2026), in current US dollars. That is about $92,474 per Texan and $34,849 per resident of Saudi Arabia.
About 1.15 times as many live in Saudi Arabia: 36,544,431 in the CIA World Factbook's 2024 estimate, against 31,709,821 Texans on July 1, 2025 (Census Bureau). Spread over 3.18 times the land, that is 44 people per square mile in Saudi Arabia and 121 in Texas.
No. The CIA World Factbook calls Saudi Arabia the largest country in the world without a river.
Riyadh keeps UTC+3 (CIA World Factbook). Most of Texas is on Central Time, UTC-6, nine hours behind, and El Paso and Hudspeth counties are on Mountain Time, UTC-7, ten hours behind, during US standard time (49 CFR Part 71).
Saudi Arabia's coastline on the Persian Gulf and the Red Sea is 1,640 mi (2,640 km) in the CIA World Factbook. Texas's is 367 miles in NOAA's general coastline (1975) and 3,359 miles in its finer tidal shoreline measure. Coastlines measure longer on more detailed charts, so these figures do not compare exactly.
Texas and Alaska together, almost exactly: 831,873 sq mi of land against Saudi Arabia's 830,000. Saudi Arabia has 1.45× the land of Alaska and 1.11× that of Mexico. The CIA World Factbook describes it as "slightly more than one-fifth the size of the US."
On a Mercator map, area grows with distance from the equator, and Texas is the farther north of the two. Computed from our map data with a Mercator projection, Texas's outline grows 1.38× and Saudi Arabia's 1.21×, so Saudi Arabia appears about 2.79 times as large as Texas rather than 3.18.

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