Puerto Rico is about 14 times smaller than Alabama.

Alabama is approximately 131,426 sq km, while Puerto Rico is approximately 9,104 sq km, making Puerto Rico 6.93% the size of Alabama. Meanwhile, the population of Alabama is ~4.8 million people (1.7 million fewer people live in Puerto Rico).
This to-scale comparison of Alabama vs. Puerto Rico uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.

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