This list ranks the top 150 U.S. cities (incorporated places) by 2024 land area.
San Francisco is an extreme example: water makes up nearly 80% of its total area of 232 square miles (601 km2).
In some cases the county no longer exists, while in others the arrangement has formed a consolidated city-county (or city-borough in Alaska, or city-parish in Louisiana); these are shown in bold.
Some consolidated city-counties, however, include multiple incorporated places.
In such cases, this list presents only that portion (or “balance”) of such consolidated city-counties that are not a part of another incorporated place; these are indicated with asterisks (*).