State size comparison
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Rhode Island is about 149 times smaller than California.
California is approximately 403,882 sq km, while Rhode Island is approximately 2,706 sq km, making Rhode Island 0.67% the size of California. Meanwhile, the population of California is ~37.3 million people (36.2 million fewer people live in Rhode Island).
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