State size comparison
compared to
Rhode Island is about 38 times smaller than Kentucky.
Kentucky is approximately 102,896 sq km, while Rhode Island is approximately 2,706 sq km, making Rhode Island 2.63% the size of Kentucky. Meanwhile, the population of Kentucky is ~4.3 million people (3.3 million fewer people live in Rhode Island).
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