Country size comparison
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Puerto Rico is about 19 times smaller than Washington.
Washington is approximately 172,348 sq km, while Puerto Rico is approximately 9,104 sq km, making Puerto Rico 5.28% the size of Washington. Meanwhile, the population of Washington is ~6.7 million people (3.6 million fewer people live in Puerto Rico).
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