Country size comparison
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Puerto Rico is about 48 times smaller than Iraq.
Iraq is approximately 438,317 sq km, while Puerto Rico is approximately 9,104 sq km, making Puerto Rico 2.08% the size of Iraq. Meanwhile, the population of Iraq is ~40.5 million people (37.4 million fewer people live in Puerto Rico).
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