Puerto Rico is about 2.2 times smaller than Massachusetts.

Massachusetts is approximately 20,306 sq km, while Puerto Rico is approximately 9,104 sq km, making Puerto Rico 44.83% the size of Massachusetts. Meanwhile, the population of Massachusetts is ~6.5 million people (3.4 million fewer people live in Puerto Rico).
This to-scale comparison of Massachusetts vs. Puerto Rico uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.

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