Puerto Rico is about 9 times smaller than South Carolina.

South Carolina is approximately 77,983 sq km, while Puerto Rico is approximately 9,104 sq km, making Puerto Rico 11.67% the size of South Carolina. Meanwhile, the population of South Carolina is ~4.6 million people (1.5 million fewer people live in Puerto Rico).
This to-scale comparison of South Carolina vs. Puerto Rico uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.

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