Country size comparison
compared to
Puerto Rico is about 2 times smaller than Kuwait.
Kuwait is approximately 17,818 sq km, while Puerto Rico is approximately 9,104 sq km, making Puerto Rico 51.09% the size of Kuwait. Meanwhile, the population of Kuwait is ~4.9 million people (1.7 million fewer people live in Puerto Rico).
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