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Warwick is a city in Kent County, Rhode Island, and the third-largest city in the state, with a population of 82,823 at the 2020 census and 36,555 households.

Warwick was founded by Samuel Gorton in 1642, was incorporated as a town on August 8, 1647, and became a city on April 21, 1931, taking its name from Robert Rich, 2nd Earl of Warwick.

In 1772 Warwick was the scene of the Gaspee Affair, when local patriots boarded and burned the British revenue cutter Gaspee, the first violent act against the British Crown and the first blood spilled in the American Revolution.

Warwick was the home of Revolutionary War General Nathanael Greene, George Washington's second-in-command, and of Civil War General George S. Greene, a hero of the Battle of Gettysburg.

Rhode Island's main airport, Rhode Island T. F. Green International Airport, is located in Warwick, and its station on the Providence/Stoughton commuter rail line provides weekday service to Providence and Boston's South Station.

Warwick was home to Rocky Point amusement park, which closed in 1995 and is now a state park.

Warwick covers 49.75 square miles in total, with 35.00 square miles of land and 14.75 square miles of water, and its entire eastern edge is waterfront along the Providence River and Narragansett Bay, with Warwick Neck and Potowomut enclosing Greenwich Bay.

The city's southernmost neighborhood, Potowomut, is a semi-exclave reachable by land only by passing through East Greenwich, and through Potowomut Warwick also borders North Kingstown and Washington County.

Warwick's population peaked at 87,123 in the 1980 census, then stood at 82,672 in 2010 and 82,823 in 2020, a rise of 0.2 percent over the decade.

The median age in Warwick was 46.0 years at the 2020 census, with 21.9 percent of residents aged 65 or older, and 99.7 percent of residents lived in urban areas.