Country size comparison
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Puerto Rico is about 83 times smaller than Zambia.
Zambia is approximately 752,618 sq km, while Puerto Rico is approximately 9,104 sq km, making Puerto Rico 1.21% the size of Zambia. Meanwhile, the population of Zambia is ~19.6 million people (16.5 million fewer people live in Puerto Rico).
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