Explore Puerto Rico in North America

Description and Basic Information

Puerto Rico with its capital San Juan is located in North America (Caribbean, island between the Caribbean Sea and the North Atlantic Ocean). It covers some 9,105 square kilometres (slightly less than three times the size of Rhode Island) with 3,916,632 citizens. English and Spanish are the the languages spoken by people in Puerto Rico.

Pictures from San Juan (Capital)

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About Puerto Rico

The topography featuresmostly mountains with coastal plain belt in north with mountains precipitous to sea on west coast and sandy beaches along most coastal areas. The average density of population is about 430 per km². The climate in can be described as tropical marine, mild with little seasonal temperature variation. Potential natural disasters are periodic droughts or hurricanes.

To reach someone in Puerto Rico dial +1-787 and +1-93 prior to a number. There are 870,100 installed telephones. And there are 2,716,000 registered mobile phones. The cellular networks operate on frequencies of 850, 1900 Mhz. Websites typically end with the top level domain ".pr". If you want to bring electric appliances (e.g. battery charger), keep in mind the local 120V - 60Hz.

The country consists of 78 regions/states which are listed below.

Regions/States of Puerto Rico

Demographic Information

Age Distribution in Puerto Rico

Each pair of bars represents a single age group (male/female). Each group is spanning 5 years. E.g. 0 to 5 years, 5 to 10 etc. and group "0 to 5" being at the left end and "100 +" at the right end of the chart.

Natural Population Growth

Population, Migration and Growth: The population in Puerto Rico is growing at an rate of 0.28% (or by 11,058 citizens). Each year 3,620 people leave this country (or 0.90 per thousand citizens) - making it an emmigration country. This leads to an absolute natural increase rate of the population of 0.37%. Or an total increase of 14,678 citizens.

Based on content from wikitravel.org. The original article can be found here based on the work of these users.
Geographic information is based on the data provided by geonames.org, CIA factsbook and Unesco.