Country size comparison
compared to
Puerto Rico is about 2.8 times smaller than Maryland.
Maryland is approximately 25,314 sq km,
while Puerto Rico is approximately 9,104 sq km, making
Puerto Rico 35.96% the size of Maryland.
Meanwhile, the population of Maryland is ~5.8 million people
(2.7 million fewer people live in Puerto Rico).
This to-scale comparison of
Maryland
vs.
Puerto Rico
uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.
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