Rhode Island

Rhode Island is the smallest state of the United States of America, tucked between and in . Nonetheless, it has over 400 mi of coastline, courtesy of Narragansett Bay and islands such as Aquidneck Island, home to Newport, the "City by the Sea".
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is the state capital and largest city in Rhode Island, as well as the third largest city in . It used to be a heavily industrialized bastion of organized crime, but 's recent renaissance has created new parks and attractions and brought emphasis back to its historic roots as an intellectual center.

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is a beautiful seaside city in Rhode Island that is famous for its genteel mansions and a rich history of yachting, golf, and tennis. With a population of only 25,000, this scenic resort town punches well above its weight and was known as the "Summer White House" throughout the 1950s and 60s.

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is the second largest city in Rhode Island by population with 83,000 residents in 2020. It lies north of and south of .

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is the largest and most populous county in the U.S. state of Rhode Island. As of the 2020 census, the county's population was 660,741, or 60.2% of the state's population.

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If you are trying to find on a map, then you might have a problem. doesn’t really exist! “South County” is the name that the locals have given to the southern part of Rhode Island.

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is one of five counties located in the U.S. state of Rhode Island. As of the 2020 census, the population was 85,643. It is also one of the seven regions of Rhode Island.

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is in central Rhode Island. It extends from the western border with to Narragansett Bay. The County was established in 1750. It spans 188 square miles and has a population of nearly 170,000 people.

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is a region in eastern Rhode Island along the border with and on Narragansett Bay. It contains only three towns.

Rhode Island

  • Type: State with 1,110,000 residents
  • Description: state of the United States of America
  • Also known as: “13th State”, “Little Rhodie”, “Little Rhody”, “Ocean State”, “Providence Plantations”, “Rhode Island (state)”, “Rhode Island (U.S. state)”, “Rhode Island and Providence Plantations”, “Rhode Island State”, “Rhode Island, United States”, “Rhode-Island”, “RI”, “Road Island”, “Rogue’s Island”, “Rogues‘ Island”, “Roodt Eylandt”, “State of Rhode Island”, “State of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations”, “The Ocean State”, “The State of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations”, and “US-RI”
  • Historically known as: “Rhode-Island and Providence Plantations”
  • Neighbors: and
  • Categories: U.S. state and locality
  • Location: , ,
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Latitude of center
41.7962° or 41° 47′ 47″ north
Longitude of center
-71.5992° or 71° 35′ 57″ west
Population
1,110,000
Elevation
226 feet (69 metres)
Abbreviation
“RI”
Open­Street­Map ID
node 316987977
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­state
Geo­Names ID
5224323
Wiki­data ID
Q1387
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In Other Languages

From Afrikaans to Zhuang—“Rhode Island” goes by many names.
  • Afrikaans: “Rhode Island”
  • Albanian: “Rhode Island”
  • Albanian: “Rod Ajlënd”
  • Amharic: “ሮድ አይላንድ”
  • Arabic: “رود آيلاند”
  • Aragonese: “Rhode Island”
  • Armenian: “Ռոդ Այլենդ”
  • Asturian: “Rhode Island”
  • Aymara: “Rhode Island suyu”
  • Azerbaijani: “Rod-Aylend”
  • Balinese: “Nusa Rhode”
  • Bashkir: “Род-Айленд”
  • Basque: “Rhode Island”
  • Bavarian: “Rhode Island”
  • Belarusian: “Род-Айленд”
  • Belarusian: “Род-Айлэнд”
  • Bengali: “রোড আইল্যান্ড”
  • Bishnupriya: “রোড আইল্যান্ড”
  • Bislama: “Rhode Island”
  • Bosnian: “Rhode Island”
  • Breton: “Rhode Island”
  • Bulgarian: “Род Айлънд”
  • Bulgarian: “Роуд Айланд”
  • Burmese: “ရုဒ်အိုင်းလန်းပြည်နယ်”
  • Catalan: “Estat de Rhode Island i les Plantacions de Providence”
  • Catalan: “Rhode Island”
  • Cebuano: “Rhode Island”
  • Central Bikol: “Rhode Island”
  • Central Kurdish: “رھۆد ئیسلەند”
  • Central Kurdish: “ڕۆد ئایلەند”
  • Chavacano: “Rhode Island”
  • Chechen: “Род-Айленд”
  • Cherokee: “ᎤᏍᏗ ᏧᎦᏚᏛᎢ”
  • Chinese: “Rhode Island”
  • Chinese: “普洛威頓斯莊園”
  • Chinese: “罗州”
  • Chinese: “罗得岛州”
  • Chinese: “罗德岛”
  • Chinese: “罗德岛州”
  • Chinese: “罗德艾兰州”
  • Chinese: “羅德島州”
  • Chuvash: “Род Айленд”
  • Cornish: “Ynys Rhode”
  • Corsican: “Rhode Island”
  • Crimean Tatar: “Rod Aylend”
  • Croatian: “Rhode Island”
  • Czech: “Rhode Island”
  • Czech: “State of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations”
  • Dagbani: “Rhode Island”
  • Danish: “Rhode Island”
  • Dimli (individual language): “Rhode Island”
  • Dutch: “Rhode Island”
  • Dutch: “RI”
  • Eastern Mari: “Род-Айленд”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “رود ايلاند”
  • Esperanto: “RI”
  • Esperanto: “Rod-Insulo”
  • Esperanto: “Rodinsulo”
  • Esperanto: “Ŝtato Rod-Insulo”
  • Estonian: “Rhode Island”
  • Ewe: “Rhode Island”
  • Faroese: “Rhode Island”
  • Fiji Hindi: “Rhode Island”
  • Finnish: “Rhode Island”
  • French: “Rhode Island and Providence Plantations”
  • French: “Rhode Island”
  • Gagauz: “Rhode Island”
  • Galician: “Rhode Island”
  • Georgian: “როდ-აილენდი”
  • German: “Rhode Island”
  • Gothic: “𐍂𐌷𐍉𐌳 𐌰𐌾𐌻𐌰𐌹𐌽𐌳”
  • Greek: “Ρόουντ Άιλαντ”
  • Guarani: “Rhode Island”
  • Gujarati: “ર્હોડ આયલેન્ડ”
  • Haitian: “Rod Aylann”
  • Hakka Chinese: “Rhode Island”
  • Hausa: “Rhode Island”
  • Hawaiian: “Loke ‘Ailana”
  • Hawaiian: “Loke ʻAilana”
  • Hebrew: “רוד איילנד”
  • Hindi: “रोड आइलैंड”
  • Hindi: “रोड आइलैण्ड”
  • Hungarian: “Rhode Island”
  • Icelandic: “Rhode Island”
  • Ido: “Rhode Island”
  • Igbo: “Àlá mmírí Rhode”
  • Iloko: “Rhode Island”
  • Inari Sami: “Rhode Island”
  • Indonesian: “Rhode Island”
  • Interlingua: “Rhode Island”
  • Interlingue: “Rhode Island”
  • Inupiaq: “Rode Qikiqtaq”
  • Inupiaq: “Ruut Qikiqtaa”
  • Irish: “Oileán Rhode”
  • Irish: “Rhode Island”
  • Italian: “Rhode Island”
  • Japanese: “ロードアイランド州”
  • Javanese: “Rhode Island”
  • Kabiyè: “Rood Ayilandi”
  • Kabyle: “Rhode Island”
  • Kalmyk: “Род Арл”
  • Kannada: “ರೋಡ್ ಐಲೆಂಡ್(ರೋಡ್ ದ್ವೀಪ)”
  • Kannada: “ರೋಡ್ ಐಲೆಂಡ್”
  • Karachay-Balkar: “Род Айленд”
  • Karachay-Balkar: “Род-Айленд”
  • Kashmiri: “روڈ آیلینٛڈ”
  • Kazakh: “Род-Айленд”
  • Kirghiz: “Род-Айленд”
  • Korean: “로드아일랜드 주”
  • Korean: “로드아일랜드”
  • Korean: “로드아일랜드주”
  • Kurdish: “Rhode Island”
  • Ladin: “Rhode Island”
  • Ladino: “Rhode Island”
  • Latin: “Rhodensis Insula”
  • Latvian: “Rodailenda”
  • Ligurian: “Isoa de Rhode”
  • Limburgan: “Rhode Island”
  • Lingua Franca Nova: “Rhode Island”
  • Literary Chinese: “羅德島州”
  • Lithuanian: “Rod Ailandas”
  • Lombard: “Rhode Island”
  • Low German: “Rhode Island”
  • Luxembourgish: “Rhode Island”
  • Macedonian: “Род Ајленд”
  • Maithili: “रोड आइल्यान्ड”
  • Malagasy: “Rhode Island”
  • Malay: “Rhode Island”
  • Malayalam: “റോഡ് ഐലൻഡ്”
  • Malayalam: “റോഡ് ഐലന്റ്”
  • Manipuri: “ꯔꯣꯗꯦ ꯏꯊꯠ”
  • Manx: “Ellan Rhode”
  • Maori: “Motu Rore”
  • Maori: “Rhode Island”
  • Marathi: “र्‍होड आयलंड”
  • Mazanderani: “رودآیلند”
  • Min Dong Chinese: “Rhode Island”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Rhode Island”
  • Minangkabau: “Rhode Island”
  • Mingrelian: “როდ-აილენდი”
  • Mongolian: “Рөүд-Айленд”
  • Moroccan Arabic: “رود آيلند”
  • Nauru: “Rhode Island”
  • Nauru: “Rode Island”
  • Navajo: “Wóód Áalin Hahoodzo”
  • Nepali: “रोड आइल्याण्ड”
  • Nepali: “रोड आइल्यान्ड”
  • Newari: “रोड टापू”
  • Newari: “रोद आइल्यान्द”
  • Northern Frisian: “Rhode Island”
  • Northern Luri: “رودآیلند”
  • Northern Sami: “Rhode Island”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “R.I.”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Rhode Island”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “RI”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Rhode Island”
  • Norwegian: “Rhode Island”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Rhode Island”
  • Official Aramaic (700-300 BCE): “ܪܘܕ ܐܝܠܐܢܕ”
  • Old English (ca. 450-1100): “Rhode Īeȝ”
  • Old English (ca. 450-1100): “Rōdesīeg”
  • Oromo: “Rhode Island”
  • Ossetian: “Род-Айленд”
  • Pali: “रोड टापू”
  • Pampanga: “Pulu ning Rhode”
  • Panjabi: “ਰੋਡ ਟਾਪੂ”
  • Papiamento: “Rhode Island”
  • Persian: “رود آیلند”
  • Picard: “Rhode Island”
  • Piemontese: “Rhode Island”
  • Polish: “Rhode Island”
  • Portuguese: “Estado de Rhode Island”
  • Portuguese: “Ilha de Rodes”
  • Portuguese: “Rhode Island”
  • Portuguese: “RI”
  • Pushto: “روډ ایسلنډ”
  • Quechua: “Rhode Island suyu”
  • Romanian: “Rhode Island”
  • Romansh: “Rhode Island”
  • Russia Buriat: “Род-Айленд”
  • Russian: “Род-Айленд”
  • Samogitian: “Rod Ailands”
  • Sanskrit: “रोड ऐलैंड”
  • Sardinian: “Rhode Island”
  • Saterfriesisch: “Rhode Island”
  • Scots: “Rhode Island”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “Rhode Island”
  • Serbian: “Роуд Ајланд”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Rhode Island”
  • Shan: “ရုတ်ႉဢၢႆးလႅၼ်း”
  • Sicilian: “Rhode Island”
  • Silesian: “Rhode Island”
  • Sindhi: “رھوڊز آئیلینڊز”
  • Sindhi: “روڊز آئیلینڊ”
  • Sinhala: “රෝඩ් අයිලන්ඩ්”
  • Sinhala: “රෝධේ දූපත”
  • Skolt Sami: “Rhode Island”
  • Slovak: “Rhode Island”
  • Slovenian: “Rhode Island”
  • Somali: “Gasiirada Rhode”
  • South Azerbaijani: “رود آیلند ایالتی”
  • Spanish: “El Estado del Océano”
  • Spanish: “Estado de Rhode Island”
  • Spanish: “Rhode Island (Estados Unidos)”
  • Spanish: “Rhode Island”
  • Spanish: “RI”
  • Swahili: “Rhode Island”
  • Swedish: “Rhode Island”
  • Tagalog: “Rhode Island”
  • Tajik: “Род-Айленд”
  • Talysh: “Rod Ajlend”
  • Talysh: “Rod-Aylend”
  • Tamil: “ரஷாதி ஐஸ்லாந்து”
  • Tamil: “றோட் தீவு”
  • Tatar: “Род-Айленд”
  • Telugu: “రోడ్ ఐలండ్”
  • Thai: “รัฐโรดไอแลนด์”
  • Tosk Albanian: “Rhode Island”
  • Tumbuka: “Rhode Island”
  • Turkish: “R. I.”
  • Turkish: “R.I.”
  • Turkish: “Rhode Island eyaleti”
  • Turkish: “Rhode Island, Amerika Birleşik Devletleri”
  • Turkish: “Rhode Island”
  • Turkish: “RI”
  • Turkish: “State of Rhode Island”
  • Turkish: “US-RI”
  • Uighur: “Rodé Arili Shitati”
  • Ukrainian: “Род-Айленд”
  • Urdu: “رہوڈ آئی لینڈ”
  • Urdu: “روڈ آئلینڈ”
  • Uzbek: “Rod-Aylend”
  • Venetian: “Rhode Island”
  • Vietnamese: “Đảo Rhode”
  • Vietnamese: “Rhode Island”
  • Vlaams: “Rhode Island”
  • Vlax Romani: “Rhode Island”
  • Volapük: “Rhode Island”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Rhode Island”
  • Welsh: “Rhode Island”
  • Western Frisian: “Rhode Island”
  • Western Mari: “Род-Айленд”
  • Western Panjabi: “رہوڈز آئلینڈ”
  • Wu Chinese: “罗得岛州”
  • Wu Chinese: “罗德岛”
  • Yakut: “Род Айлэнд”
  • Yiddish: “ראוד איילענד”
  • Yoruba: “Erékùṣù Rhode”
  • Yoruba: “Rhode Island”
  • Yue Chinese: “羅德島州”
  • Zeeuws: “Rhode Island”
  • Zhuang: “Rhode Island”
  • “ma Otajan”
  • “ma Otalan”
  • “Q1387”
  • “Rhode Island”
  • “Rod Ailands”
  • “US-RI”

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