Country size comparison
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Barbados is about 21 times smaller than Puerto Rico.
Puerto Rico is approximately 9,104 sq km, while Barbados is approximately 430 sq km, making Barbados 4.72% the size of Puerto Rico. Meanwhile, the population of Puerto Rico is ~3.1 million people (2.8 million fewer people live in Barbados).
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