State size comparison
compared to
Rhode Island is about 47 times smaller than North Carolina.
North Carolina is approximately 126,161 sq km, while Rhode Island is approximately 2,706 sq km, making Rhode Island 2.14% the size of North Carolina. Meanwhile, the population of North Carolina is ~9.5 million people (8.5 million fewer people live in Rhode Island).
This to-scale comparison of
North Carolina
vs.
Rhode Island
uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.
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