State size comparison

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Rhode Island is about 47 times smaller than North Carolina.

North Carolina is approximately 126,161 sq km, while Rhode Island is approximately 2,706 sq km, making Rhode Island 2.14% the size of North Carolina. Meanwhile, the population of North Carolina is ~9.5 million people (8.5 million fewer people live in Rhode Island).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of North Carolina vs. Rhode Island uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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