Country size comparison
compared to
Malta is about 29 times smaller than Puerto Rico.
Puerto Rico is approximately 9,104 sq km, while Malta is approximately 316 sq km, making Malta 3.47% the size of Puerto Rico. Meanwhile, the population of Puerto Rico is ~3.1 million people (2.6 million fewer people live in Malta).
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