Country size comparison
compared to
Puerto Rico is about 23 times smaller than Minnesota.
Minnesota is approximately 206,189 sq km, while Puerto Rico is approximately 9,104 sq km, making Puerto Rico 4.42% the size of Minnesota. Meanwhile, the population of Minnesota is ~5.3 million people (2.2 million fewer people live in Puerto Rico).
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