Individual #Rhode_Island__Little_Rhody__Ocean_State__RI  a state in New England; one of the original 13 colonies; the smallest state
  instance of:  #American_state
  part:  #Providence  #Newport.Rhode_Island  #Narragansett_Bay
  part of:  #New_England  a region of northeastern United States comprising Maine and New Hampshire and Vermont and Massachusetts and Rhode Island and Connecticut
     part of:  #USA__United_States_of_America__United_States__America__US__U.S.__U.S.A.  North American republic containing 50 states - 48 conterminous states in North America plus Alaska in northwest North America and the Hawaiian Islands in the Pacific Ocean; achieved independence in 1776
        part of:  #North_America  a continent (the third largest) in the western hemisphere connected to South America by the Isthmus of Panama
           part of:  #northern_hemisphere  the hemisphere north of the equator
           part of:  #western_hemisphere__westernhemisphere__occident__New_World  the hemisphere that includes North and South America
           part of:  #the_Americas__America  North and South America

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