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).
This to-scale comparison of Missouri vs. Puerto Rico uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.

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