Country size comparison
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Puerto Rico is about 13 times smaller than New York.
New York is approximately 122,283 sq km, while Puerto Rico is approximately 9,104 sq km, making Puerto Rico 7.45% the size of New York. Meanwhile, the population of New York is ~19.4 million people (16.3 million fewer people live in Puerto Rico).
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