The Colony of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations is one of the original Thirteen Colonies established on the east coast of North America, bordering the Atlantic Ocean.

It is a colony of the Kingdom of England from 1636 to 1707, when the Acts of Unionare passed, then a colony of the unified Kingdom of Great Britain until 1776.

After the American Revolution, it becomes the State of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations (commonly known as just Rhode Island).