Country size comparison
compared to
Puerto Rico is about 163 times smaller than Alaska.
Alaska is approximately 1,481,348 sq km, while Puerto Rico is approximately 9,104 sq km, making Puerto Rico 0.61% the size of Alaska. Meanwhile, the population of Alaska is ~710,231 people (2.4 million more people live in Puerto Rico).
Tip:
This to-scale comparison of
Alaska
vs.
Puerto Rico
uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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