Country size comparison
compared to
Puerto Rico is about 19 times smaller than Uruguay.
Uruguay is approximately 176,215 sq km, while Puerto Rico is approximately 9,104 sq km, making Puerto Rico 5.17% the size of Uruguay. Meanwhile, the population of Uruguay is ~3.4 million people (308,790 fewer people live in Puerto Rico).
This to-scale comparison of
Uruguay
vs.
Puerto Rico
uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.
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