Puerto Rico is about 72 times smaller than Afghanistan.

Afghanistan is approximately 652,230 sq km, while Puerto Rico is approximately 9,104 sq km, making Puerto Rico 1.4% the size of Afghanistan. Meanwhile, the population of Afghanistan is ~38.3 million people (35.2 million fewer people live in Puerto Rico).
This to-scale comparison of Afghanistan vs. Puerto Rico uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.

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