State size comparison

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Rhode Island is about 8 times smaller than Massachusetts.

Massachusetts is approximately 20,306 sq km, while Rhode Island is approximately 2,706 sq km, making Rhode Island 13.33% the size of Massachusetts. Meanwhile, the population of Massachusetts is ~6.5 million people (5.5 million fewer people live in Rhode Island).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Massachusetts vs. Rhode Island uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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