Puerto Rico is about 19 times smaller than Uruguay.

Uruguay is approximately 176,215 sq km, while Puerto Rico is approximately 9,104 sq km, making Puerto Rico 5.17% the size of Uruguay. Meanwhile, the population of Uruguay is ~3.4 million people (308,790 fewer people live in Puerto Rico).
This to-scale comparison of Uruguay vs. Puerto Rico uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.

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