Country size comparison
compared to
Maryland is about 2.8 times bigger than Puerto Rico.
Puerto Rico is approximately 9,104 sq km, while Maryland is approximately 25,314 sq km, making Maryland 178% larger than Puerto Rico. Meanwhile, the population of Puerto Rico is ~3.1 million people (2.7 million more people live in Maryland).
This to-scale comparison of
Puerto Rico
vs.
Maryland
uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.
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