Colorado is certainly one of the bigger states in the US. Of course, you can answer the question of how big is Colorado by talking about the landmass. If you rank US states by their landmass, Colorado ranks eighth out of all 50 US states. If you have visited Colorado, then you probably figured that it was a large state.
That is certainly true. The total area of the state of Colorado is 104,095 square miles. One other thing to note is that this area consists mostly of land. Colorado only has 376 square miles of water. This means that its water accounts for less than one percent of the state's total area.
In contrast to its ranking by landmass, Colorado doesn't rank all that high if you measure the state's size by population. According to the 2020 US Census, the state of Colorado had an estimated population of 5,812,069 people on July 1, 2021. Colorado only ranks 21st in terms of its total population out of all 50 US states. It is also worth noting that Colorado's population only grew by roughly 700,000 people between April 1, 2010, and April 1, 2020.
Colorado has approximately 15.64% the land area of Alaska. In other words, Alaska is approximately 6.39 times larger than Colorado.
Rhode Island has approximately 1.48% the land area of Colorado. In other words, Colorado is approximately 67.37 times larger than Rhode Island.
The area of Colorado is 104,094 square miles.
Colorado is the 8th largest state in the US.
The next smallest state is Oregon and the next largest state is Nevada.