“State of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations” is the state’s official name.
They tried voting on removing “and Providence Plantations” a decade ago, but that didn’t happen; so along comes Gina R. to try to remove it via executive decree.
It isn’t listed that way here:
https://www.thegreenpapers.com/slg/statehood.phtml
Also, North and South Carolina each have 13 letters...;>)
Well, our overlords paved the way for that one with their COVID-19 blah-de-blah gubernatorial decrees.