🌾 The Big Four American Crops Compared to Entire Countries

What We’re Showing

This graphic puts America's cropland into perspective by comparing its area to similarly-sized countries around the world. Data was sourced from the U.S. Department of Agriculture and the World Bank.

See the Dataset tab for figures in kilometers.

Key Takeaways

• The U.S. devoted more than the entire area of Malaysia (329K sq km/127K sq miles) to growing corn in 2023.
• Meanwhile, America’s soybean crop could cover all of Finland (304K sq km/117K sq miles)

Together, both these crops (710K sq km/274K sq km) could replace Myanmar, the largest country in mainland Southeast Asia.