Island
Puerto Rico (island)
Natural Earth’s outline of Puerto Rico (island) measures about 8,550 km² (3,300 mi²), the 68th largest of the 81 islands on sizeversus, and 85% of the size of Lebanon.
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The numbers
- 8,550km²Area, measured3,300 mi² · Natural Earth outline
- 9,100km²Area, publishedWikidata · 6.1% above our measure, flagged
The area is measured from the outline drawn above, on the WGS84 ellipsoid; the published figure is shown beside it, and a water body is kept only if the two are within 10%. This one is between 5% and 10% apart, so it is flagged and no comparison is built for it automatically.
What the numbers say about Puerto Rico (island)
- Greenland (island), the largest of the 81 islands ranked on sizeversus, is 254× the size of Puerto Rico (island); Puerto Rico (island) ranks 68th.
- Puerto Rico (island) sits between Corsica (8,640 km²) and Chiloé Island (8,370 km²) in the ranking.
- Counted as a country, Puerto Rico (island) would be larger than 45 of the 212 countries listed on sizeversus and would rank 168th by area, between Lebanon (10,000 km²) and Palestine (6,070 km²).
- It is larger than 3 of the 51 US states and districts (the biggest of them is Delaware, 5,170 km²) and smaller than 48.
- It is larger than 1 of the 31 provinces and regions of China (the biggest of them is Shanghai, 6,750 km²) and smaller than 30.
- The closest Chinese province is Shanghai (6,750 km²): Puerto Rico (island) is 1.27× the size of Shanghai.
- Puerto Rico (island) lies at 18°N, close to the equator, where a standard web map (Web Mercator) is nearly true to size: it inflates area by only about 1.1×.
- Laid out flat, Puerto Rico (island) stretches about 63 km north to south and 167 km east to west.
- Our measured 8,550 km² is 6.1% below Wikidata’s published figure of 9,100 km². This difference is flagged for review: a lake’s outline may include islands or bays that the published figure leaves out, or the water level may differ. The outline is kept because it is within 10%, and this page is not matched automatically to any other.
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Where it lies
Natural Earth’s outlines of Puerto Rico contain or lie within 4 km of the outline of Puerto Rico (island). That is what its geometry says, and it is not a statement about who owns the water or where any border runs in it.
Where Puerto Rico (island) ranks
Puerto Rico (island) is the 68th largest of the 81 islands on sizeversus, ranked by measured area.
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Sources and method
- Outline
- Natural Earth, 1:10m Geography Regions (geography_regions_polys), public domain (Geography Regions (geography_regions_polys)). Outlines of lakes are drawn at 1:10 million.
- Boundary
- A lake or a sea has no legal boundary of its own. The outline is a cartographic one, and the page says so by showing the measured area beside the published one.
- Area basis
- Measured outline: computed on the WGS84 ellipsoid from the full-detail outline and shown rounded. Published figure: Wikidata (CC0), fetched 2026-11-11. An outline is kept within 10% of the published figure and matched to other places automatically within 5%.
- Shore
- Countries whose Natural Earth outline contains or comes close to the water's outline; computed, not a statement of ownership.
- Drawing
- Each outline is projected with an equal-area projection centred on its own centroid, so areas stay true and two can be laid over each other.
- Data built
- 2026-11-11