{"id":2511,"date":"2009-10-16T17:15:29","date_gmt":"2009-10-16T22:15:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.howderfamily.com\/blog\/?p=2511"},"modified":"2021-10-26T13:45:22","modified_gmt":"2021-10-26T18:45:22","slug":"connecticut-third-smallest-state","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.howderfamily.com\/blog\/connecticut-third-smallest-state\/","title":{"rendered":"Only Rhode Island and Delaware are Smaller in Size than this State"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>It\u2019s homework time again. Somewhere some geography teacher must be handing out a take-home quiz because I\u2019m getting pinged with identical Google queries from multiple sources. They all read, &#8220;Only Rhode Island and Delaware are smaller in size than this state.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Regular readers should feel free to skip today\u2019s article which I\u2019m presenting as a Public Service Announcement; something I do from time to time when I\u2019m feeling magnanimous. Think of the children. Yes, think of those poor children left to struggle with their homework. I can\u2019t let those kids down.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><span style=\"color:#ff0000\" class=\"has-inline-color\">Connecticut!<\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/96225726@N08\/8842999599\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/8132\/8842999599_6c28125849_b.jpg\" alt=\"Welcome to Connecticut. Photo by howderfamily.com; (CC BY-NC-SA 2.0)\"\/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Let\u2019s compare land areas (<a href=\"https:\/\/goo.gl\/maps\/qKBCmid6BDup3Lqi8\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">map<\/a>).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Smallest: Rhode Island = 1,044.93 square miles<\/li><li>Second Smallest: Delaware = 1,953.56 square miles<\/li><li>Third Smallest: Connecticut = 4,844.80 square miles<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>The same ratio holds true even when considering their territorial waters according to Wikipedia\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/List_of_U.S._states_and_territories_by_area\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">List of U.S. states and territories by area<\/a>. Thus, whether one defines &#8220;smaller&#8221; as land area alone or land combined with territorial waters, the answer remains Connecticut.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We now return to our regularly-scheduled Twelve Mile Circle.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It\u2019s homework time again. Somewhere some geography teacher must be handing out a take-home quiz because I\u2019m getting pinged with identical Google queries from multiple sources. They all read, &#8220;Only Rhode Island and Delaware are smaller in size than this state.&#8221; Regular readers should feel free to skip today\u2019s article which I\u2019m presenting as a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,21],"tags":[885,1794,1793],"class_list":["post-2511","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-misc","category-states","tag-connecticut","tag-homework","tag-smallest-state"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Only Rhode Island and Delaware are Smaller in Size than this State - Twelve Mile Circle - An Appreciation of Unusual Places<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"The homework assignment asked, &quot;Only Rhode Island and Delaware are smaller in size than this state?&quot; Twelve Mile Circle answered.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.howderfamily.com\/blog\/connecticut-third-smallest-state\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Only Rhode Island and Delaware are Smaller in Size than this State - 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