Country size comparison
compared to
Puerto Rico is about 16 times smaller than Iowa.
Iowa is approximately 144,701 sq km,
while Puerto Rico is approximately 9,104 sq km, making
Puerto Rico 6.29% the size of Iowa.
Meanwhile, the population of Iowa is ~3.0 million people
(52,068 more people live in Puerto Rico).
This to-scale comparison of
Iowa
vs.
Puerto Rico
uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.
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