State size comparison
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Rhode Island is about 43 times smaller than Pennsylvania.
Pennsylvania is approximately 116,075 sq km, while Rhode Island is approximately 2,706 sq km, making Rhode Island 2.33% the size of Pennsylvania. Meanwhile, the population of Pennsylvania is ~12.7 million people (11.6 million fewer people live in Rhode Island).
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