U.S. States Similar in Size to Chad

Chad (1.284 million km²) is Africa's fifth-largest country, slightly smaller than Texas (695,662 km²? Wait—Chad is larger than Texas. Let's correct: Chad ~1.28M km²; Texas ~696k km². So Chad is nearly twice the size of Texas. The original answer was incorrect.)

Actually, Chad is larger than any single U.S. state. It is roughly the size of Texas + California + Montana combined, or about the size of South Africa or Peru.

No single U.S. state matches Chad's area. The closest in size among large states are Alaska (1.7M km²) and Texas (696k km²), but Chad sits between them.