Country size comparison

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Rhode Island is about 99 times smaller than New Zealand.

New Zealand is approximately 268,838 sq km, while Rhode Island is approximately 2,706 sq km, making Rhode Island 1.01% the size of New Zealand. Meanwhile, the population of New Zealand is ~5.1 million people (4.0 million fewer people live in Rhode Island).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of New Zealand vs. Rhode Island uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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