List of counties in Rhode Island

This is a list of the five  in the  of . Rhode Island has the second lowest number of counties of any U.S. state (only has fewer, with three counties). Although Rhode Island is divided into counties, it does not have any local government at the county level. Instead, local government is provided by the and.

The colony of Rhode Island was established in the 17th century, and was the first of the to  from British rule in 1776, signaling the start of the. The counties were all established before the Declaration of Independence.

The (FIPS) code, which is used by the United States government to uniquely identify states and counties, is provided with each entry. Rhode Island's code is 44, which when combined with any county code would be written as 44XXX. The FIPS code for each county links to census data for that county.