State size comparison
compared to
Rhode Island is about 39 times smaller than Tennessee.
Tennessee is approximately 106,752 sq km, while Rhode Island is approximately 2,706 sq km, making Rhode Island 2.53% the size of Tennessee. Meanwhile, the population of Tennessee is ~6.3 million people (5.3 million fewer people live in Rhode Island).
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