Puerto Rico is about 30 times smaller than New Zealand.

New Zealand is approximately 268,838 sq km, while Puerto Rico is approximately 9,104 sq km, making Puerto Rico 3.39% the size of New Zealand. Meanwhile, the population of New Zealand is ~5.1 million people (2.0 million fewer people live in Puerto Rico).
This to-scale comparison of New Zealand vs. Puerto Rico uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.

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