State size comparison
compared to
Rhode Island is about 45 times smaller than New York.
New York is approximately 122,283 sq km, while Rhode Island is approximately 2,706 sq km, making Rhode Island 2.21% the size of New York. Meanwhile, the population of New York is ~19.4 million people (18.3 million fewer people live in Rhode Island).
This to-scale comparison of
New York
vs.
Rhode Island
uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.
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