State size comparison
compared to
Rhode Island is about 53 times smaller than Illinois.
Illinois is approximately 143,961 sq km, while Rhode Island is approximately 2,706 sq km, making Rhode Island 1.88% the size of Illinois. Meanwhile, the population of Illinois is ~12.8 million people (11.8 million fewer people live in Rhode Island).
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