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Rhode Island ( (listen), like road), officially the State of Rhode Island, is a state in the New England region of the Northeastern United States. It 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 is the second-most densely populated behind New Jersey. The state takes its name from the eponymous island, though most of its land area is on the mainland. Rhode Island borders Connecticut to the west, Massachusetts to the north and east, and the Atlantic Ocean to the south via Rhode Island Sound and Block Island Sound; it also shares a small maritime border with New York. Providence is the state capital and most populous city. Native Americans lived around Narragansett Bay for thousands of years before English settlers began arriving in the early 17th century. Rhode Island was unique among the Thirteen British Colonies for being founded by a refugee, Roger Williams, who had fled religious persecution from the Massachusetts Bay Colony to establish a haven for religious liberty. He founded Providence in 1636 on land purchased from local tribes, creating the first settlement in North America with an explicitly secular government. The Colony of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations would subsequently become a destination for religious and political dissenters and social outcasts, earning it the moniker of "Rogue's Island".Reflecting its status as a hub of relative tolerance and freethought, Rhode Island was the first colony to call for a Continental Congress in 1774 and the first to renounce its allegiance to the British Crown on May 4, 1776. Following the American Revolution, during which it was heavily occupied and contested, Rhode Island became the fourth state to ratify the Articles of Confederation, on February 9, 1778. Favoring a weaker central government, it boycotted the 1787 convention that drafted the United States Constitution, which it initially refused to ratify; it was the last of the original thirteen states to do so, on May 29, 1790.Formerly named the State of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations since the colonial era, in November 2020 voters in the state approved an amendment to the state constitution formally dropping the Providence Plantations in its full name. Rhode Island's official nickname is the "Ocean State", a reference to its 400 miles (640 km) of coastline and the large bays and inlets that amount to about 14% of its total area.

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