Country size comparison
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Puerto Rico is about 134 times smaller than South Africa.
South Africa is approximately 1,219,090 sq km, while Puerto Rico is approximately 9,104 sq km, making Puerto Rico 0.75% the size of South Africa. Meanwhile, the population of South Africa is ~57.5 million people (54.4 million fewer people live in Puerto Rico).
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