response: Well if you look at all 50 states, it's the 2nd smallest by population.   By area, it's the 6th smallest.
original_response: you sure do , vermont is the 6th smallest area of all the 50 states
history: I've never been to the state of Vermont before, I don't really know much about it either. Oh okay, well I have some information.   It's in a region called New England, in northeastern US. Oh right, it is up there with Maine isn't it? I totally forgot haha. Oh I'm not sure.  But New York is on it's western border. Oh okay.  Oh hey what do you know agbout the Great Lakes? I know that there are five!   Their names are Lake Huron, Lake Superior, Lake Erie, Lake Ontario, and Lake Michigan.  They make up the biggest cluster of freshwater lakes in the world! Wow that's something.  Back to Vermont, how big is it?
knowledge: Vermont is the second smallest by population and the sixth smallest by area of the 50 U.S. states.