State size comparison

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Rhode Island is about 42 times smaller than Louisiana.

Louisiana is approximately 112,825 sq km, while Rhode Island is approximately 2,706 sq km, making Rhode Island 2.4% the size of Louisiana. Meanwhile, the population of Louisiana is ~4.5 million people (3.5 million fewer people live in Rhode Island).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Louisiana vs. Rhode Island uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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