Country size comparison
compared to
Puerto Rico is about 1.4 times smaller than Connecticut.
Connecticut is approximately 12,548 sq km, while Puerto Rico is approximately 9,104 sq km, making Puerto Rico 72.55% the size of Connecticut. Meanwhile, the population of Connecticut is ~3.6 million people (475,674 fewer people live in Puerto Rico).
This to-scale comparison of
Connecticut
vs.
Puerto Rico
uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.
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