State size comparison
compared to
California is about 149 times bigger than Rhode Island.
Rhode Island is approximately 2,706 sq km, while California is approximately 403,882 sq km, making California 14,825% larger than Rhode Island. Meanwhile, the population of Rhode Island is ~1.1 million people (36.2 million more people live in California).
This to-scale comparison of
Rhode Island
vs.
California
uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.
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