Top 5 Smallest States in The US

Top 5 Smallest States in The US

1. Rhode Island | 1,034 square miles

Rhode Island is the littlest state in the Assembled States. The capital and biggest city is Provision. It is known as the "Sea state" due to its inlets and conduits.  Rhode Island was one of the first Thirteen Settlements, and turned into an express  the remainder of the thirteen to consent to the new Joined States Constitution in 1790. Rhode Island is verged on the north and east by Massachusetts, on the west by Connecticut, and on the south by Rhode Island Sound and the Atlantic Sea. It shares a water outskirt with New York. It is named for an extensive island in Rhode Island Sound. Rhode Island was established by Roger Williams for religious opportunity. Some idea the island looked loved Rhodes, an island in Greece. 

2. Delaware | 1,949 square miles

Henry Hudson, sailing under the Dutch flag, is credited with Delaware's discovery in 1609. The following year, Capt. Samuel Argall of Virginia named Delaware for his colony's governor, Thomas West, Baron De La Warr. An attempted Dutch settlement failed in 1631. Swedish colonization began at Fort Christina now Wilmington in 1638, but New Sweden fell to Dutch forces led by New Netherlands' governor Peter Stuyvesant in 1655. England took over the area in 1664, and it was transferred to William Penn as the lower Three Counties in 1682. 

Semi-autonomous after 1704, Delaware fought as a separate state in the American Revolution and became the first state to ratify the Constitution in 1787.During the Civil War, although a slave state, Delaware did not secede from the Union. In 1802, Éleuthère Irénée du Pont established a gunpowder mill near Wilmington that laid the foundation for Delaware's huge chemical industry. Delaware's manufactured products now also include vulcanized fiber, textiles, paper, medical supplies, metal products, machinery, machine tools, and automobiles. Delaware also grows a great variety of fruits and vegetables and is a U.S. pioneer in the food-canning industry. Corn, soybeans, potatoes, and hay are important crops. Delaware's broiler-chicken farms supply the big Eastern markets, and fishing and dairy products are other important industries

3. Connecticut | 4,842 square miles 

The Dutch navigator, Adriaen Block, was the first European of record to explore the area, sailing up the Connecticut River in 1614. In 1633, Dutch colonists built a fort and trading post near present-day Hartford but soon lost control to English Puritans from the Massachusetts Bay Colony. English settlements established in the 1630s at Windsor, Wethersfield, and Hartford united in 1639 to form the Connecticut Colony under the Fundamental Orders, the first modern constitution.

Today, Connecticut factories produce weapons, sewing machines, jet engines, helicopters, motors, hardware and tools, cutlery, clocks, locks, silverware, and submarines. Hartford has the oldest U.S. newspaper still being published—the Hartford Courant, established 1764—and is the insurance capital of the nation.

Connecticut leads New England in the production of eggs, pears, peaches, and mushrooms, and its oyster crop is the nation's second largest. Poultry and dairy products also account for a large portion of farm income. Connecticut played a prominent role in the Revolutionary War, serving as the Continental Army's major supplier. Sometimes called the “Arsenal of the Nation,” the state became one of the most industrialized in the nation.

4. Hawai | 6,423 square miles

First settled by Polynesians sailing from other Pacific islands between A.D. 300 and 600, Hawaii was visited in 1778 by British captain James Cook, who called the group the Sandwich Islands. Hawaii was a native kingdom throughout most of the 19th century, when the expansion of the sugar industry (pineapple came after 1898) meant increasing U.S. business and political involvement. 

In 1893, Queen Liliuokalani was deposed, and a year later the Republic of Hawaii was established with Sanford B. Dole as president. Following annexation (1898), Hawaii became a U.S. territory in 1900 and finally a state in 1959. The Japanese attack on the naval base at Pearl Harbor on Dec. 7, 1941, was directly responsible for U.S. entry into World War II. Hawaii, 2,397 mi west-southwest of San Francisco, is a 1,523-mile chain of islets and eight main islands—Hawaii, Kahoolawe, Maui, Lanai, Molokai, Oahu, Kauai, and Niihau. The Northwestern Hawaiian Islands, other than Midway, are administratively part of Hawaii.

5. New Jersey | 7,354 square miles

New Jersey is known as the Garden State since it ended up well known in the eighteenth century for the richness of its territory. It is presently additionally among the most urbanized and swarmed of states. The urban thickness of its upper east differentiations pointedly, nonetheless, with the rough slopes of the northwest, the tremendous stretches of pine woodland in the southeast the Pine Barrens, and the rolling and lavish pony nation in the south-focal piece of the state. New Jersey is an imperative mechanical focus, however it has paid the cost in natural contamination, in earth and clamor, and in congested streets and ghettos. In total, New Jersey is an inquisitive amalgam of urban and country, poor and rich, dynamic and moderate, parochial and cosmopolitan.