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Rhode Island is the only state in New England formed entirely atop basement rock from the microcontinent Avalonia.The bedrock of Rhode Island first took shape with the emergence of a volcanic arc near a subduction on the margin of the supercontinent Gondwana, with the earliest rocks likely formed in the late Neoproterozoic.
Rhode Island (/ ˌ r oʊ d-/ ⓘ, pronounced "road") [6] [7] is a state in the New England region of the Northeastern United States.It borders Connecticut to its west; Massachusetts to its north and east; and the Atlantic Ocean to its south via Rhode Island Sound and Block Island Sound; and shares a small maritime border with New York, east of Long Island. [8]
An enlargeable map of the State of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations. Names Common name: Rhode Island. Pronunciation: / r oʊ d ˈ aɪ l ɪ n d / ⓘ Official name: State of Rhode Island [1] Abbreviations and name codes Postal symbol: RI; ISO 3166-2 code: US-RI; Internet second-level domain: .ri.us; Nicknames Little Rhody [2]
Branch River. Carr River. Chepachet River. Chipuxet River. Chockalog River. Clear River. Congdon River. Flat River (Kent County, Rhode Island) Flat River (Washington County, Rhode Island)
Subcategories. This category has the following 11 subcategories, out of 11 total. Landforms of Rhode Island by county (6 C) Bodies of water of Rhode Island (8 C) Wetlands of Rhode Island (4 P)
Aquidneck Island ( uh-KWID-nek[ 1] ), officially known as Rhode Island, is an island in Narragansett Bay in the state of Rhode Island. The total land area is 37.8 sq mi (98 km 2 ), which makes it the largest island in the bay. The 2020 United States Census reported its population as 60,109. The state of Rhode Island is named after the island ...
Providence is the capital and most populous city of the U.S. state of Rhode Island. The county seat of Providence County, it is one of the oldest cities in New England, [ 7 ] founded in 1636 by Roger Williams, a Reformed Baptist theologian and religious exile from the Massachusetts Bay Colony. He named the area in honor of "God's merciful ...
Rhode Island is the smallest U.S. state by area and the seventh-least populous, with slightly fewer than 1.1 million residents as of 2020; but it has grown at every decennial count since 1790 and is the second-most densely populated state, after New Jersey. The state takes its name from the eponymous island, though nearly all its land area is ...