Country size comparison
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Puerto Rico is about 13 times smaller than Mississippi.
Mississippi is approximately 121,489 sq km, while Puerto Rico is approximately 9,104 sq km, making Puerto Rico 7.49% the size of Mississippi. Meanwhile, the population of Mississippi is ~3.0 million people (131,126 more people live in Puerto Rico).
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