Country size comparison
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Puerto Rico is about 12 times smaller than Tennessee.
Tennessee is approximately 106,752 sq km, while Puerto Rico is approximately 9,104 sq km, making Puerto Rico 8.53% the size of Tennessee. Meanwhile, the population of Tennessee is ~6.3 million people (3.2 million fewer people live in Puerto Rico).
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