Country size comparison
compared to
Puerto Rico is about 13 times smaller than North Korea.
North Korea is approximately 120,538 sq km, while Puerto Rico is approximately 9,104 sq km, making Puerto Rico 7.55% the size of North Korea. Meanwhile, the population of North Korea is ~26.0 million people (22.9 million fewer people live in Puerto Rico).
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