Country size comparison
compared to
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).
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