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World Almanac for Kids |
 | | RHODE ISLAND, in full, State of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations, one of the New England states of the U.S., bordered on the N and E by Massachusetts, on the S by Rhode Island Sound and Block Island Sound (arms of the Atlantic Ocean), and on the W by Connecticut. |
 | | Among the widespread mammals of Rhode Island are white-tailed deer, beaver, otter, rabbit, raccoon, skunk, squirrel, and woodchuck. |
 | | Rhode Island is governed under a constitution adopted in 1842, as amended; this instrument replaced a colonial charter of 1663. |
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