Rhode Island is about 76 times smaller than Minnesota.

Minnesota is approximately 206,189 sq km, while Rhode Island is approximately 2,706 sq km, making Rhode Island 1.31% the size of Minnesota. Meanwhile, the population of Minnesota is ~5.3 million people (4.3 million fewer people live in Rhode Island).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Minnesota vs. Rhode Island uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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