State size comparison
compared to
Rhode Island is about 149 times smaller than California.
California is approximately 403,882 sq km, while Rhode Island is approximately 2,706 sq km, making Rhode Island 0.67% the size of California. Meanwhile, the population of California is ~37.3 million people (36.2 million fewer people live in Rhode Island).
This to-scale comparison of
California
vs.
Rhode Island
uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.
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