Country size comparison

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Puerto Rico is about 11 times smaller than Virginia.

Virginia is approximately 102,548 sq km, while Puerto Rico is approximately 9,104 sq km, making Puerto Rico 8.88% the size of Virginia. Meanwhile, the population of Virginia is ~8.0 million people (4.9 million fewer people live in Puerto Rico).
This to-scale comparison of Virginia vs. Puerto Rico uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.

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