Country size comparison
compared to
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).
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