State size comparison

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Rhode Island is about 29 times smaller than South Carolina.

South Carolina is approximately 77,983 sq km, while Rhode Island is approximately 2,706 sq km, making Rhode Island 3.47% the size of South Carolina. Meanwhile, the population of South Carolina is ~4.6 million people (3.6 million fewer people live in Rhode Island).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of South Carolina vs. Rhode Island uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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