Country size comparison
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Puerto Rico is about 216 times smaller than Mexico.
Mexico is approximately 1,964,375 sq km, while Puerto Rico is approximately 9,104 sq km, making Puerto Rico 0.46% the size of Mexico. Meanwhile, the population of Mexico is ~129.2 million people (126.1 million fewer people live in Puerto Rico).
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Moving from Puerto Rico to Mexico · UN DESA 2020
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