Country size comparison
compared to
Mexico is about 216 times bigger than Puerto Rico.
Puerto Rico is approximately 9,104 sq km, while Mexico is approximately 1,964,375 sq km, making Mexico 21,477% larger than Puerto Rico. Meanwhile, the population of Puerto Rico is ~3.1 million people (126.1 million more people live in Mexico).
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Moving from Mexico to Puerto Rico · UN DESA 2020
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