Panama is 28 times larger than Rhode Island (USA).
Area: 75,420 km2 World Factbook
Population: 3,608,431 (July 2014) World Factbook
Panama, officially the Republic of Panama, is the southernmost country of Central America and the whole of North America. 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