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Which state has the most miles of road? 🛣️

1Guess
Which states have the most miles of road (every street and highway added up)? Tap them most-to-least.

Tapping assigns 1→4 in order

I bet… California — think of all that traffic!
2Answer
The real order is…
    Texas has about 1.82× as many road miles as #2 California — and Alaska, the biggest state of all, is only #45!
    📚 Background Texas has about 322,000 miles of public road — enough to go around the Earth almost 13 times, and nearly double #2 California. The quiet surprise: farm states like Minnesota and Kansas crack the top 5, because their endless grids of country section roads add up. And Alaska, the biggest state of all, is only #45 — most of it has no roads at all. (FHWA Highway Statistics 2023)
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    I bet… California — think of all that traffic!
    3Compare
    Miles of public road (by state, 2023)
    Texas #1 322,113 miles
    Highest: Texas (322,113 miles); lowest shown here: Hawaii (4,522 miles).

    Note: total miles of all public roads — every rural lane and city street, per FHWA's 2023 table.

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    : 2023
    FHWA Highway Statistics 2023: Table HM-20, public road mileage by state (2026-07-24) — Official published values (the committed raw file holds the grand-total miles for every state exactly as published).
    ↳ On fhwa.dot.gov Highway Statistics 2023, open Table HM-20 and read the right-most grand TOTAL column for each state.