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List of cities and towns in Rhode Island

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The U.S. state of Rhode Island is divided into 8 cities and 31 towns. Each city or town is a municipality with its own government. Everywhere in Rhode Island is within a city or town.

Map of cities and towns

Cities and towns

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† State capital and largest city

Name Type[1] County Form of government[1] Population
(2020)[2] 		Land area
(2020)[3] 		Population density Year established
[1] 		Year incorporated
[a][1][4]
sq mi km2
Barrington Town Bristol Council–manager 17,153 8.22 21.3 2,086.7/sq mi (805.7/km2) 1653 1770
Bristol Town Bristol Council–manager 22,493 9.82 25.4 2,290.5/sq mi (884.4/km2) 1680 1746
Burrillville Town Providence Council–manager 16,158 55.03 142.5 293.6/sq mi (113.4/km2) 1730 1806
Central Falls City Providence Mayor–council 22,583 1.20 3.1 18,819.2/sq mi (7,266.1/km2) 1730 1895
Charlestown Town Washington Council–manager 7,997 36.45 94.4 219.4/sq mi (84.7/km2) 1669 1738
Coventry Town Kent Council–manager 35,688 59.05 152.9 604.4/sq mi (233.4/km2) 1639 1743[b]
Cranston City Providence Mayor–council 82,934 28.34 73.4 2,926.4/sq mi (1,129.9/km2) 1754 1910
Cumberland Town Providence Mayor–council 36,405 26.45 68.5 1,376.4/sq mi (531.4/km2) 1746 1746
East Greenwich Town Kent Council–manager 14,312 16.39 42.4 873.2/sq mi (337.1/km2) 1677 1677[c]
East Providence City Providence Mayor–council 47,139 13.24 34.3 3,560.3/sq mi (1,374.6/km2) 1812 1958
Exeter Town Washington Town meeting 6,460 57.47 148.8 112.4/sq mi (43.4/km2) 1641 1641[d]
Foster Town Providence Town meeting 4,469 50.80 131.6 88.0/sq mi (34.0/km2) 1636 1781
Glocester Town Providence Town meeting 9,974 54.18 140.3 184.1/sq mi (71.1/km2) 1639 1730–1731
Hopkinton Town Washington Town meeting 8,398 42.95 111.2 195.5/sq mi (75.5/km2) 1639 1757
Jamestown Town Newport Council–manager 5,559 9.45 24.5 588.3/sq mi (227.1/km2) 1639 1678
Johnston Town Providence Mayor–council 29,568 23.43 60.7 1,262.0/sq mi (487.3/km2) 1636 1759
Lincoln Town Providence Council–manager 22,529 18.12 46.9 1,243.3/sq mi (480.0/km2) 1650 1871
Little Compton Town Newport Town meeting 3,616 20.52 53.1 176.2/sq mi (68.0/km2) 1682 1746
Middletown Town Newport Council–manager 17,075 12.72 32.9 1,342.4/sq mi (518.3/km2) 1639 1743
Narragansett Town Washington Council–manager 14,532 13.89 36.0 1,046.2/sq mi (403.9/km2) 1888 1901
Newport City Newport Council–manager 25,163 7.67 19.9 3,280.7/sq mi (1,266.7/km2) 1639 1784[e]
New Shoreham Town Washington Council–manager 1,410 9.08 23.5 155.3/sq mi (60.0/km2) 1664 1672
North Kingstown Town Washington Council–manager 27,732 43.14 111.7 642.8/sq mi (248.2/km2) 1641 1674
North Providence Town Providence Mayor–council 34,114 5.62 14.6 6,070.1/sq mi (2,343.7/km2) 1636 1765
North Smithfield Town Providence Council–manager 12,588 23.80 61.6 528.9/sq mi (204.2/km2) 1730 1871
Pawtucket City Providence Mayor–council 75,604 8.68 22.5 8,710.1/sq mi (3,363.0/km2) 1671 1954
Portsmouth Town Newport Council–manager 17,871 22.98 59.5 777.7/sq mi (300.3/km2) 1638 1640[f]
Providence† City Providence Mayor–council 190,934 18.40 47.7 10,376.8/sq mi (4,006.5/km2) 1636 1832
Richmond Town Washington Town meeting 8,020 40.29 104.4 199.1/sq mi (76.9/km2) 1636 1730
Scituate Town Providence Town meeting 10,384 48.16 124.7 215.6/sq mi (83.2/km2) 1636 1730
Smithfield Town Providence Council–manager 22,118 26.31 68.1 840.7/sq mi (324.6/km2) 1636 1730
South Kingstown Town Washington Council–manager 31,931 56.45 146.2 565.7/sq mi (218.4/km2) 1657 1723[g]
Tiverton Town Newport Town meeting 16,359 29.05 75.2 563.1/sq mi (217.4/km2) 1694 1746
Warren Town Bristol Council–manager 11,147 6.12 15.9 1,821.4/sq mi (703.2/km2) 1620 1747
Warwick City Kent Mayor–council 82,823 35.04 90.8 2,363.7/sq mi (912.6/km2) 1642 1931
Westerly Town Washington Council–manager 23,359 29.52 76.5 791.3/sq mi (305.5/km2) 1661 1669
West Greenwich Town Kent Town meeting 6,528 50.26 130.2 129.9/sq mi (50.2/km2) 1639 1741
West Warwick Town Kent Council–manager 31,012 7.79 20.2 3,981.0/sq mi (1,537.1/km2) 1648 1913
Woonsocket City Providence Mayor–council 43,240 7.74 20.0 5,586.6/sq mi (2,157.0/km2) 1867 1888
Total — — — 1,097,379 1,033.82 2,677.6 1,061.48/sq mi (409.84/km2) — —

Notes

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  1. ↑ Refers to the date of incorporation of the current municipal status.
  2. ↑ There is a discrepancy in dates from the two provided sources, with the Snow (1865) source listing the incorporation date as 1741.
  3. ↑ This date is only found in the Snow (1865) source and is absent in the Government of Rhode Island source.
  4. ↑ There is a discrepancy in dates from the two provided sources, with the Snow (1865) source listing the incorporation date as 1742–1743.
  5. ↑ This date is only found in the Government of Rhode Island source and is absent in the Snow (1865) source.
  6. ↑ This date is only found in the Snow (1865) source and is absent in the Government of Rhode Island source.
  7. ↑ There is a discrepancy in dates from the two provided sources, with the Snow (1865) source listing the incorporation date as 1722.

References

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  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 "Rhode Island Cities & Towns". Rhode Island Government. Rhode Island Interactive. Retrieved March 5, 2017.
  2. ↑ "Explore Census Data". U.S. Census Bureau. Retrieved August 25, 2021.
  3. ↑ "GCT-PH1 – Population, Housing Units, Area, and Density: 2010 – State — Place and (in selected states) County Subdivision". 2010 United States Census. United States Census Bureau. Archived from the original on September 16, 2020. Retrieved June 17, 2016.
  4. ↑ Snow, Edwin M. (1865). Report Upon the Census of Rhode Island, 1865: With the Statistics of the Population, Agriculture, Fisheries and Manufactures of the State. Rhode Island Census Board. University of Michigan. p. xxvii.
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