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).
This to-scale comparison of
North Carolina
vs.
Puerto Rico
uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.
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