Country size comparison
compared to
Puerto Rico is about 2.1 times smaller than New Jersey.
New Jersey is approximately 19,211 sq km, while Puerto Rico is approximately 9,104 sq km, making Puerto Rico 47.39% the size of New Jersey. Meanwhile, the population of New Jersey is ~8.8 million people (5.7 million fewer people live in Puerto Rico).
This to-scale comparison of
New Jersey
vs.
Puerto Rico
uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.
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