State size comparison

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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).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Kentucky vs. Rhode Island uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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