State size comparison
compared to
Massachusetts is about 8 times bigger than Rhode Island.
Rhode Island is approximately 2,706 sq km, while Massachusetts is approximately 20,306 sq km, making Massachusetts 650% larger than Rhode Island. Meanwhile, the population of Rhode Island is ~1.1 million people (5.5 million more people live in Massachusetts).
This to-scale comparison of
Rhode Island
vs.
Massachusetts
uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.
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