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The Hobby-Eberly Dark Energy Experiment (HETDEX) is an untargeted ∼540 deg² spectroscopic survey of Lyα emission in the 1.9 < z < 3.5 Universe. In surface brightness, this survey reaches 1σ Lyα sensitivities of ∼2-5 × 10^–18 erg s^–1 cm${}^{-2}\,{{\rm{arcsec}}}^{-2}$, allowing large samples of extended Lyα nebulae (LAN) to be studied. We selected a sample of 70,691 Lyα-emitting galaxies (LAEs) with an emission-line signal-to-noise ratio greater than 6 and modeled the Lyα emission as a point-source component with an optional exponential envelope. Half (∼47.5%) of the LAE sample (33,612 objects) exhibits significant extended emission and is best fit by the two-component model. The fraction of resolved sources increases with Lyα flux and luminosity. Their isophotal areas range from 10 to 130 arcsec² (median 15 arcsec²), with integrated Lyα fluxes from 6 to 2000 × 10^–17 erg s^–1 cm^–2 (median 20 × 10^–17 erg s^–1 cm^–2). Comparison between point-spread function-weighted and isophotal flux measurements shows that the HETDEX pipeline underestimates the total Lyα flux by ∼30% on average, reflecting the substantial halo contribution in extended sources. Approximately 420 LANs are found per deg² over 79.5 deg² of noncontiguous sky. About 12% of resolved sources show active galactic nuclei signatures and are bright in Lyα and continuum. The remaining 88% span a wide range of morphologies and often lack continuum counterparts. Exponential scale lengths show no strong correlation with Lyα flux or luminosity (median 11.6 ± 1.9 kpc). Only 2.9% of the full S/N > 6 LAE population with ancillary data have radio counterparts, but 64% of those are found to be extended, with the radio fraction increasing with Lyα size. We present a catalog of all modeled sources, with their positions, redshifts, luminosities, and structural parameters for over 70,000 LAEs consisting of 33,000 spatially extended LAN. The catalog can be found at https://hetdex.org/data-results/ and in the online version of this paper.