Puerto Rico is about 15 times smaller than Florida.

Florida is approximately 139,670 sq km, while Puerto Rico is approximately 9,104 sq km, making Puerto Rico 6.52% the size of Florida. Meanwhile, the population of Florida is ~18.8 million people (15.7 million fewer people live in Puerto Rico).
This to-scale comparison of Florida vs. Puerto Rico uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.

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