State size comparison
compared to
Rhode Island is about 53 times smaller than Iowa.
Iowa is approximately 144,701 sq km, while Rhode Island is approximately 2,706 sq km, making Rhode Island 1.87% the size of Iowa. Meanwhile, the population of Iowa is ~3.0 million people (2.0 million fewer people live in Rhode Island).
This to-scale comparison of
Iowa
vs.
Rhode Island
uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.
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