Puerto Rico is about 44 times smaller than California.

California is approximately 403,882 sq km, while Puerto Rico is approximately 9,104 sq km, making Puerto Rico 2.25% the size of California. Meanwhile, the population of California is ~37.3 million people (34.2 million fewer people live in Puerto Rico).
This to-scale comparison of California vs. Puerto Rico uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.

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