Country size comparison
compared to
California is about 44 times bigger than Puerto Rico.
Puerto Rico is approximately 9,104 sq km, while California is approximately 403,882 sq km, making California 4,336% larger than Puerto Rico. Meanwhile, the population of Puerto Rico is ~3.1 million people (34.2 million more people live in California).
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