Country size comparison
compared to
Puerto Rico is about 4.5 times smaller than Switzerland.
Switzerland is approximately 41,277 sq km, while Puerto Rico is approximately 9,104 sq km, making Puerto Rico 22.06% the size of Switzerland. Meanwhile, the population of Switzerland is ~8.5 million people (5.4 million fewer people live in Puerto Rico).
This to-scale comparison of
Switzerland
vs.
Puerto Rico
uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.
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