State size comparison
compared to
Rhode Island is about 38 times smaller than Virginia.
Virginia is approximately 102,548 sq km,
while Rhode Island is approximately 2,706 sq km, making
Rhode Island 2.64% the size of Virginia.
Meanwhile, the population of Virginia is ~8.0 million people
(6.9 million fewer people live in Rhode Island).
This to-scale comparison of
Virginia
vs.
Rhode Island
uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.
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