State size comparison

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Rhode Island is about 53 times smaller than Iowa.

Iowa is approximately 144,701 sq km, while Rhode Island is approximately 2,706 sq km, making Rhode Island 1.87% the size of Iowa. Meanwhile, the population of Iowa is ~3.0 million people (2.0 million fewer people live in Rhode Island).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Iowa vs. Rhode Island uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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