Cook Islands is about 11 times smaller than Rhode Island.

Rhode Island is approximately 2,706 sq km, while Cook Islands is approximately 236 sq km, making Cook Islands 8.72% the size of Rhode Island. Meanwhile, the population of Rhode Island is ~1.1 million people (1.0 million fewer people live in Cook Islands).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Rhode Island vs. Cook Islands uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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