State size comparison

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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).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Virginia vs. Rhode Island uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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