Puerto Rico Country Info - 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.

Puerto Rico is a Caribbean island that is a self-governing commonwealth of the United States of America. The island of Puerto Rico is a rectangular shape and is the smallest, most eastern island of the Greater Antilles. It measures almost 580 km of coast. There is plenty to do outside the metropolitan areas. Many small family owned tour companies provide guided tours of the Central Mountains in Utuado near Río Tanama, Repelling in Arecibo, kayak tours of Lake Guajataka, and horse back riding on the beach in Aguadilla. Whether you're dreaming about spectacular surfing waves, a challenging golf course, or the perfect sunbathing beach, Puerto Rico offers the active traveler a tremendous array of opportunities. Surfing and golf compete with tennis, fishing, kayaking, scuba diving, and horseback riding, not to mention windsurfing and parasailing, for your active time. The island has over 15 championship golf courses a short drive away from the San Juan metropolitan area.

Pictures from Capital (San Juan)

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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 Puerto Rico 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 following list are the 78 regions/states in Puerto Rico we know off.

Demographic Statistics

In the year 2010, the total Puerto Rican population grew at a rate of 0.28% (or by 11,058 citizens). With 31,662 deaths and 46,340 babies born, the natural increase rate lies at 0.37%. -3,620 persons more in total emmigrated from the country than immigrated.

An overview of 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.

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.