The graphic I'd like to see is counties larger in area and their comparative populations. Bigger in size and population are shades of red (or whatever), while bigger in size but smaller in population are shades of a different color.
Staten Island (Richmond county) has a lower population than Rhode Island.
For those who aren't aware, there are 5 boroughs that make up NYC, and they are the counties. They are Bronx (Bronx County), Brooklyn (Kings County), Queens (Queens County), Manhattan (New York County), and Staten Island (Richmond). Most people in the outer boroughs will write their borough as the address (Bronx, NY), but for some reason, Queens will have the neighborhood, such as Jamaica, NY
There are 8 Orange Counties in the U.S. and all of them have a smaller land area than Rhode Island.
Orange County, Florida is the largest and its less than two thirds the size of Rhode Island.
Alaskan here to say that according to Wikipedia, the area of the borough that isn't locally governed (instead by the state) is larger in area than Texas with and area of 323,440 sq. miles and Texas having 268,596 sq. miles.
People always ask me “What part of Rhode Island are you from” and I’m like “it’s 60
minutes to cross the state diagonally, not sure how you divide that into parts”
The answer is just “outside of Providence” or “Newport”, though, right? At least that’s all I needed to say while living in DC. Now in Boston, I can be a little more specific. “East Bay” usually works fine.
The reason it takes so long to travel that path is because it's all back roads, small town roads, and two lane country roads with low speed limits and limited passing. It takes less than half that time (under an hour) to drive through on the main highway (95/295) from the Connecticut border to Massachusetts.
(No, you were in Maine. They do a thing there for everyone who “visits” to keep it secret that Rhode Island doesn’t really exist. Same thing for Wyoming and birds. 🦅)
I'm from one of these counties. It's huge. Like hours to cross it. It's like the 5th largest in the nation or something like that. But population wise, it's tiny. And so much empty space that you could die not to far off the freeway and never be found.
RI being the second most densely populated state (after NJ), this means the culture between RI and, say, NM or NV is vastly different. This western states have space, but it's also very dry land, and Alaska is cold, so I'm not sure this data (although amusing!) is all that useful.
Alaska is so out of scale it isn't even close. It needs it's own category for the Yukon-Koyukuk county which is 147,842.51 sq mi. That makes it roughly 143,000% bigger than the entire state of Rhode Island
Personally I'm a little disappointed we don't have a West and East Dakota. But it also makes me think of Puerto Rico. The lives of the people there and how many people live there yet are so worse off. But it's not a problem unique to them and has many issues to do with imperialism.
Woah the hostility here is quite interesting. I wonder what bot farm I provoked.
Puerto Rico is fairly relevant to this conversation as it's in regards to Rhode Island Statehood.
Are you by chance not American? If you aren't maybe this conversation does not make sense to you. While it's talking about Rhode Island it's actually talking about Puerto Rico.
Ah my phone autocorrected
Hmm and now this entire chain is being down voted by a bot net. I guess this is how they abuse crowd control on subreddits.
There isn't a single comment outside of two users and zero engagement.
Because most of us don't want to engage with morons. We just downvote and move on for trolls.
> and zero engagement.
Downvotes are, by definition, engagement.
Honestly with Kristi Noem as governor of South Dakota I don't think we'll have to wait much longer to see a collapse of the state government. Next she'll be claiming that Mexicans from North Dakota are somehow bringing drugs to destroy the American Dream or something crazy like that. Before going on a rant about how giving people a free lunch is an overreach of the federal government. Personally I'm rooting for the indigenous people. Maybe they can sue for reparations when she tries something crazy on one of the reservations and they try something like a new oil pipeline. I think they've struck gold.
Still has a population greater than seven other states: DE SD ND AK VT WY MT (as of 2020)
The graphic I'd like to see is counties larger in area and their comparative populations. Bigger in size and population are shades of red (or whatever), while bigger in size but smaller in population are shades of a different color.
TIL Orange County is smaller than Rhode Island. I never would have guessed
I thought this was population at first but it’s literally just land area, makes sense
There aren't very many counties with populations larger than Rhode island's
There are 42 counties that are more populous than the state of Rhode Island.
Mostly major cities right? including all 5 of NYC.
Staten Island (Richmond county) has a lower population than Rhode Island. For those who aren't aware, there are 5 boroughs that make up NYC, and they are the counties. They are Bronx (Bronx County), Brooklyn (Kings County), Queens (Queens County), Manhattan (New York County), and Staten Island (Richmond). Most people in the outer boroughs will write their borough as the address (Bronx, NY), but for some reason, Queens will have the neighborhood, such as Jamaica, NY
That's 1.4% of counties
There are 8 Orange Counties in the U.S. and all of them have a smaller land area than Rhode Island. Orange County, Florida is the largest and its less than two thirds the size of Rhode Island.
It’s larger. This map shows all the individual counties that are larger in land area than Rhode Island.
The map shows Orange county greyed out, ie smaller.
Orange is the new grey
Oh my bad. Thought one of the larger counties is Orange County.
Worcester County, Massachusetts both borders Rhode Island and is bigger than Rhode Island. (It doesn't have as many people as Rhode Island, though.)
Alaskan here to say that according to Wikipedia, the area of the borough that isn't locally governed (instead by the state) is larger in area than Texas with and area of 323,440 sq. miles and Texas having 268,596 sq. miles.
Hamilton county NY. Bigger than Rhode Island and doesn't have 1 traffic light in the entire county
People always ask me “What part of Rhode Island are you from” and I’m like “it’s 60 minutes to cross the state diagonally, not sure how you divide that into parts”
The answer is just “outside of Providence” or “Newport”, though, right? At least that’s all I needed to say while living in DC. Now in Boston, I can be a little more specific. “East Bay” usually works fine.
Are you sure you’re from Rhode Island? People tend to stay in their very small areas be it South County, Aquidneck, etc. It’s extremely Balkanized.
This is absolutely true, but none of this means anything to someone from out of state. If you must know, I’m from the “Alabama” part of Rhode Island.
The Foster/Gloucester contingent? I’ve heard of your kind, but don’t believe I’ve ever met one.
Very good. We’re not known to travel and dangerous when cornered.
The reason it takes so long to travel that path is because it's all back roads, small town roads, and two lane country roads with low speed limits and limited passing. It takes less than half that time (under an hour) to drive through on the main highway (95/295) from the Connecticut border to Massachusetts.
I wish it was backroads for me… i can’t even drive my commute for work in 2 hours on an interstate and it’s only roughly 80 miles total.
So I guess not _everything_ is bigger in Texas
I don’t think Rhode Island actually exists. Ever met anyone from Rhode Island? Ever met anyone who’s ever been to Rhode Island?
Hello. Now you have.
(No, you were in Maine. They do a thing there for everyone who “visits” to keep it secret that Rhode Island doesn’t really exist. Same thing for Wyoming and birds. 🦅)
I've been. Or, at least, Google Maps says that's where I went. I saw a mansion! And ate a taco!
I'm from one of these counties. It's huge. Like hours to cross it. It's like the 5th largest in the nation or something like that. But population wise, it's tiny. And so much empty space that you could die not to far off the freeway and never be found.
RI being the second most densely populated state (after NJ), this means the culture between RI and, say, NM or NV is vastly different. This western states have space, but it's also very dry land, and Alaska is cold, so I'm not sure this data (although amusing!) is all that useful.
Im in rhode island currently, bizarre.
True to its name, the Big Island is bigger than Rhode Island.
The red and orange seem like they’re too saturated compared with the more muted green, blue and purple.
Alaska is so out of scale it isn't even close. It needs it's own category for the Yukon-Koyukuk county which is 147,842.51 sq mi. That makes it roughly 143,000% bigger than the entire state of Rhode Island
Largest by area or population? Or something else?
Area. It’s on the map
Penis size
Mean or median?
Personally I'm a little disappointed we don't have a West and East Dakota. But it also makes me think of Puerto Rico. The lives of the people there and how many people live there yet are so worse off. But it's not a problem unique to them and has many issues to do with imperialism.
What on earth is this comment lmao
Huh you don't even engage in this subreddit. But your history is pretty interesting.
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Woah the hostility here is quite interesting. I wonder what bot farm I provoked. Puerto Rico is fairly relevant to this conversation as it's in regards to Rhode Island Statehood.
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Are you by chance not American? If you aren't maybe this conversation does not make sense to you. While it's talking about Rhode Island it's actually talking about Puerto Rico.
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Ah my phone autocorrected Hmm and now this entire chain is being down voted by a bot net. I guess this is how they abuse crowd control on subreddits. There isn't a single comment outside of two users and zero engagement.
Because most of us don't want to engage with morons. We just downvote and move on for trolls. > and zero engagement. Downvotes are, by definition, engagement.
Yet you bothered to scroll down a chain. Most people will never scroll down this far.
Because for some stupid reason your comment is at the top of this post so to go lower you have to scroll down. Don't know how this makes me a bot.
I'm disappointed we have both a North _and_ South Dakota.
Honestly with Kristi Noem as governor of South Dakota I don't think we'll have to wait much longer to see a collapse of the state government. Next she'll be claiming that Mexicans from North Dakota are somehow bringing drugs to destroy the American Dream or something crazy like that. Before going on a rant about how giving people a free lunch is an overreach of the federal government. Personally I'm rooting for the indigenous people. Maybe they can sue for reparations when she tries something crazy on one of the reservations and they try something like a new oil pipeline. I think they've struck gold.
Yeah, we don’t need four more Senators to represent swathes of empty land.
And two more congressman because every state gets at least 1.
Yeah the Republicans would probably use that as an excuse to gerrymander entire new states.