Country size comparison
compared to
Puerto Rico is about 20 times smaller than Missouri.
Missouri is approximately 178,414 sq km, while Puerto Rico is approximately 9,104 sq km, making Puerto Rico 5.1% the size of Missouri. Meanwhile, the population of Missouri is ~6.0 million people (2.9 million fewer people live in Puerto Rico).
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