Country size comparison

compared to

Alaska is about 163 times bigger than Puerto Rico.

Puerto Rico is approximately 9,104 sq km, while Alaska is approximately 1,481,348 sq km, making Alaska 16,171% larger than Puerto Rico. Meanwhile, the population of Puerto Rico is ~3.1 million people (2.4 million fewer people live in Alaska).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Puerto Rico vs. Alaska uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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