Dominican Rep. is 18 times larger than Rhode Island (USA).
Area: 48,670 km2 World Factbook
Population: 10,349,741 (July 2014) World Factbook
The Dominican Republic is a nation on the island of Hispaniola, part of the Greater Antilles archipelago in the Caribbean region. Wikipedia
Rhode Island, officially the State of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations, is a state in the New England region of the United States. Rhode Island is the smallest in area, the eighth least populous, but the second most densely populated of the 50 US states behind New Jersey. Wikipedia