Country size comparison
compared to
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).
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