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Rhode Island Counties

Counties

County Basics

The tables below feature information about every in . (Note: Louisiana is divided into parishes, Alaska into boroughs.) The first table lists each ’s name, the seat, area in square miles, area in square kilometers (km), population density (number of people per square mile), density per square kilometer (km) and population. County (or parish, borough) seats that also serve as state capitals are highlighted in yellow. The second table focuses on race.

You can see this information for all fifty states at Reference > North America > USA > Counties. Also, see the Counties home page.
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Name Seat Area (km) Density (km) Pop(2000) Pop(1990)
Bristol Bristol 25 64 1,980 764 50,648 48,859
Kent East Greenwich 170 441 947 366 167,090 161,135
Newport Newport 104 270 838 324 85,433 87,194
Providence Providence 413 1,070 1,443 557 621,602 596,270
Washington West Kingston 333 862 331 128 123,546 110,006
(Source: U.S. Census Bureau)

Race

The table below lists the population of various ethnic and cultural groups in : Native American (American Indian, Eskimo and Aleut), white (Caucasian), black (African American), Asian American, Pacific Islander, “Some Other Race,” people whose ancestry includes two or more races, and Hispanic.
County Native White Black Asian PI Other Race2 Hisp
Bristol 82 49,034 349 505 14 150 514 572
Kent 388 159,645 1,558 2,241 32 1,086 2,140 2,827
Newport 365 78,136 3,184 1,054 56 935 1,703 2,409
Providence 3,143 487,235 40,685 18,007 435 49,871 22,226 83,232
Washington 1,143 117,141 1,132 1,858 30 574 1,668 1,780
(Source: U.S. Census Bureau)


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