Country size comparison
compared to
Puerto Rico is about 12 times smaller than Cuba.
Cuba is approximately 110,860 sq km, while Puerto Rico is approximately 9,104 sq km, making Puerto Rico 8.21% the size of Cuba. Meanwhile, the population of Cuba is ~11.0 million people (7.9 million fewer people live in Puerto Rico).
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Moving from Puerto Rico to Cuba · UN DESA 2020
10 people born in Puerto Rico live in Cuba.
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