Puerto Rico is about 21 times smaller than Syria.

Syria is approximately 187,437 sq km, while Puerto Rico is approximately 9,104 sq km, making Puerto Rico 4.86% the size of Syria. Meanwhile, the population of Syria is ~21.6 million people (18.5 million fewer people live in Puerto Rico).
This to-scale comparison of Syria vs. Puerto Rico uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.

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