Country size comparison
compared to
Puerto Rico is about 14 times smaller than North Carolina.
North Carolina is approximately 126,161 sq km, while Puerto Rico is approximately 9,104 sq km, making Puerto Rico 7.22% the size of North Carolina. Meanwhile, the population of North Carolina is ~9.5 million people (6.4 million fewer people live in Puerto Rico).
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