Qatar is 4.3 times larger than Rhode Island (USA).
Area: 11,586 km2 World Factbook
Population: 2,123,160 (July 2014) World Factbook
Qatar, officially the State of Qatar, is a sovereign Arab country, located in Western Asia, occupying the small Qatar Peninsula on the northeasterly coast of the Arabian Peninsula. Its sole land border is with Saudi Arabia to the south, with the rest of its territory surrounded by the Persian Gulf. 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