Puerto Rico is about 14 times smaller than Nicaragua.

Nicaragua is approximately 130,370 sq km, while Puerto Rico is approximately 9,104 sq km, making Puerto Rico 6.98% the size of Nicaragua. Meanwhile, the population of Nicaragua is ~6.3 million people (3.2 million fewer people live in Puerto Rico).
This to-scale comparison of Nicaragua vs. Puerto Rico uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.

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