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About Rhode Island - "The
Ocean State"
The State of Rhode Island and
Providence Plantations is a state in the New England region
of the northeastern United States. It is the smallest state
by area, and it is also the state with the longest official
name. Rhode (pronounced "Road") Island was the first of the
thirteen original American colonies to declare independence
from British rule, signaling the start of the American
Revolution.
The state's common name, Rhode Island, actually refers only
to the largest island in Narragansett Bay, also known as
Aquidneck Island. Some historians think that the name is derived from Roodt
Eylandt, old Dutch for "red island," given to the island by
Dutch explorer Adriaen Block due to the red clay on the
island's shore. Other historians believe the name owes its
origins to Italian explorer Giovanni da Verrazzano, upon
discovering nearby (present-day) Block Island named it Rhode
Island because of its similarity in shape to the Greek
island of Rhodes. Later settlers, mistaking which island
Verrazzano was referring to, gave the name to Aquidneck
Island instead.
Despite most of the state being part of the mainland, the
name Rhode Island leads some out-of-staters to mistakenly
believe that the entire state is an island, sometimes
confusing it with Long Island, New York, which is only about
100 miles southwest of Rhode Island across the Atlantic
Ocean. Rhode Island is nicknamed "Little Rhody"
traditionally but the state officially adopted the nickname
"The Ocean State". (source)
Rhode Island Capital
Providence
Rhode Island Regions
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Rhode Island Counties
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Rhode Island Cities
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Rhode Island Towns
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Burrillville · Charlestown · Coventry · Cumberland · East
Greenwich · Exeter · Foster · Glocester · Hopkinton ·
Jamestown · Johnston · Lincoln · Little Compton · Middletown
· Narragansett · New Shoreham (Block Island) · North
Kingstown · North Providence · North Smithfield · Portsmouth
· Richmond · Scituate · Smithfield · South Kingstown ·
Tiverton · Warren · West Greenwich · West Warwick · Westerly
Rhode Island Reservations
Narragansett Indian Tribe
Rhode Island State Symbols
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Flower - Violet (unofficial)
(1968)
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Tree - Red Maple (official)
(1964)
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Bird - Rhode Island Red Hen
(official) (1954)
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Shell - Quahog (official)
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Mineral - Bowenite (1966)
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Stone - Cumberlandite (1966)
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Colors - Blue, White, and Gold
(in state flag)
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Song - “Rhode Island, It's for
Me” (1996)
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