Country size comparison
compared to
Puerto Rico is about 11 times smaller than South Korea.
South Korea is approximately 99,720 sq km, while Puerto Rico is approximately 9,104 sq km, making Puerto Rico 9.13% the size of South Korea. Meanwhile, the population of South Korea is ~51.8 million people (48.7 million fewer people live in Puerto Rico).
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