Puerto Rico is about 13 times smaller than Eritrea.

Eritrea is approximately 117,600 sq km, while Puerto Rico is approximately 9,104 sq km, making Puerto Rico 7.74% the size of Eritrea. Meanwhile, the population of Eritrea is ~6.2 million people (3.1 million fewer people live in Puerto Rico).
This to-scale comparison of Eritrea vs. Puerto Rico uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.

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