State size comparison
compared to
Rhode Island is about 45 times smaller than Mississippi.
Mississippi is approximately 121,489 sq km, while Rhode Island is approximately 2,706 sq km, making Rhode Island 2.23% the size of Mississippi. Meanwhile, the population of Mississippi is ~3.0 million people (1.9 million fewer people live in Rhode Island).
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