Country size comparison
compared to
Puerto Rico is about 58 times smaller than Yemen.
Yemen is approximately 527,968 sq km, while Puerto Rico is approximately 9,104 sq km, making Puerto Rico 1.72% the size of Yemen. Meanwhile, the population of Yemen is ~31.0 million people (27.9 million fewer people live in Puerto Rico).
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