The Gaza Strip is about 365 square kilometers (141 square miles) in size. Compared to a U.S. state, Gaza is roughly the size of a medium to small city rather than an entire state. For example, Gaza is about twice the size of Washington, D.C. but much smaller than any U.S. state. It is comparable in size to cities like Philadelphia or Detroit in terms of land area.
To give a clearer comparison, Gaza's footprint is much smaller than even the smallest U.S. states like Rhode Island or Delaware, which are thousands of square kilometers large, making Gaza tiny by comparison with U.S. states.
