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is the capital of Puerto Rico and its largest city, with 342,000 inhabitants in the municipality and 2,203,000 in the metropolitan area. Founded in 1521 by the Spanish conquistadors, is the oldest city under the jurisdiction of the United States.

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is a island belonging to Puerto Rico, also known as Isla Nena or Little Girl Island. It is a relatively small, rural island about 8 miles east of Puerto Rico.

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is a city in the region of Puerto Rico. 's draw is its rich history and unique architecture.

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The of Puerto Rico is home to most of the San Juan metropolitan area.

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is the central, mountainous region of Puerto Rico. The Cordillera Central, the main mountain range in Puerto Rico, crosses the island from west to east through the region and divides the island into northern and southern coastal plains.

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The of Puerto Rico is known for its beautiful beaches and Yunque National Forest.

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, or simply West Region, is a tourism region in western Puerto Rico. was the first tourism region to be established by the Puerto Rico Tourism Company.

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is a tourism region in southern Puerto Rico. It was established in 2003 by the Puerto Rico Tourism Company, an agency of the Government of Puerto Rico.

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is a small island, mostly covered in nature preserve that lies about 20 miles east of Puerto Rico and 12 miles west of . is administered as a municipality of Puerto Rico.

Puerto Rico

Latitude of center
18.2346° or 18° 14′ 5″ north
Longitude of center
-66.3904° or 66° 23′ 25″ west
Population
3,200,000
Area
9,104 km² (3,515 miles²)
Elevation
454 metres (1,490 feet)
Capital
Currency
Dollar (USD)
Phone code
.pr
Internet domain
+1-787 and 1-939
Abbreviation
“PR”
Open­Street­Map ID
node 9661720171
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­state
Geo­Names ID
4566966
Wiki­data ID
Q1183
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In Other Languages

From Afrikaans to Zulu—“Puerto Rico” goes by many names.
  • Afrikaans: “Puerto Rico”
  • Akan: “Puɛto Riko”
  • Albanian: “Porto-Riko”
  • Albanian: “Portorikoja”
  • Amharic: “ፕዌርቶ ሪኮ”
  • Amharic: “ፖርታ ሪኮ”
  • Amis: “Puerto rico”
  • Angika: “पोर्टो रिको”
  • Arabic: “بورتوريكو”
  • Arabic: “دولة بورتوريكو الحرة المرتبطة”
  • Aragonese: “Puerto Rico”
  • Armenian: “Պուերտո Ռիկո”
  • Arpitan: “Pôrto Rico”
  • Assamese: “পুৱেৰ্টো ৰিকো”
  • Asturian: “Puerto Rico”
  • Asturian: “Puertu Ricu”
  • Atayal: “Puerto rico”
  • Aymara: “Burinkin”
  • Azerbaijani: “Puerto Riko”
  • Azerbaijani: “Puerto-Riko”
  • Balinese: “Puérto Riko”
  • Bambara: “Pɔrotoriko”
  • Bashkir: “Пуэрто-Рико”
  • Basque: “Puerto Rico”
  • Bavarian: “Puerto Rico”
  • Belarusian: “Пуэрта-Рыка”
  • Belarusian: “Пўэрта-Рыка”
  • Bengali: “পুয়ের্তো রিকো”
  • Bhojpuri: “पोर्तो रिको”
  • Bishnupriya: “পুয়ের্তো রিকো”
  • Bosnian: “Porto Riko”
  • Bosnian: “Portoriko”
  • Breton: “Puerto Rico”
  • Bulgarian: “Пуерто Рико”
  • Burmese: “ပေါ်တိုရီကို”
  • Burmese: “ပေါ်တိုရီကိုနိုင်ငံ”
  • Catalan: “Estado Libre Asociado de Puerto Rico”
  • Catalan: “pr”
  • Catalan: “Puerto Rico”
  • Cebuano: “Puerto Rico”
  • Cebuano: “Purtoriko”
  • Central Bikol: “Puerto Rico”
  • Central Kurdish: “پۆرتۆ ڕیکۆ”
  • Chavacano: “Puerto Rico”
  • Chechen: “Пуэрто-Рико”
  • Chinese: “Puerto Rico”
  • Chinese: “波多黎各”
  • Chuvash: “Пуэрто-Рико”
  • Cornish: “Puerto Rico”
  • Cornish: “Pwerto Riko”
  • Corsican: “Portiricu”
  • Corsican: “Portu Ricu”
  • Corsican: “Statu Liberu Zssociatu di Portu Ricu”
  • Croatian: “Portoriko”
  • Czech: “Portoriko”
  • Dagbani: “Free Associated State of Puerto Rico”
  • Danish: “Puerto Rico”
  • Dhivehi: “ޕުއެރްތޮ ރީކޯ”
  • Dimli (individual language): “Porto Riko”
  • Dutch: “Gemenebest Puerto Rico”
  • Dutch: “Puerto Rico”
  • Dzongkha: “པུ་འེར་ཊོ་རི་ཁོ”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “بويرتو ريكو”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “پويرتو ريكو”
  • Erzya: “Пуэрто-Рико”
  • Esperanto: “Porto-Riko”
  • Esperanto: “Portoriko”
  • Esperanto: “Puerto-Riko”
  • Esperanto: “Puertoriko”
  • Estonian: “Puerto Rico”
  • Ewe: “Puerto Riko nutome”
  • Extremaduran: “Puertu Ricu”
  • Faroese: “Puerto Riko”
  • Finnish: “Puerto Rico”
  • French: “État libre associé de Porto Rico”
  • French: “Porto Rico”
  • Fulah: “Porto Rikoo”
  • Gagauz: “Puerto Riko”
  • Galician: “Estado Libre Asociado de Porto Rico”
  • Galician: “Porto Rico”
  • Ganda: “Potoriko”
  • Georgian: “პუერტო-რიკო”
  • German: “Puerto Rico”
  • Gilaki: “پؤرتؤريکؤ”
  • Greek: “Πουέρτο Ρίκο”
  • Guarani: “Puerto Rico”
  • Guarani: “Puerto Rríko”
  • Guianese Creole French: “Puerto Rico”
  • Gujarati: “પ્યુઅર્ટો રિકો”
  • Gujarati: “પ્યુએર્ટો રિકો”
  • Haitian: “Pòtoriko”
  • Hakka Chinese: “Puerto Rico”
  • Hausa: “Porto Riko”
  • Hausa: “Puerto Rico”
  • Hawaiian: “Pokoliko”
  • Hebrew: “פוארטו ריקו”
  • Hindi: “पोर्टो रिको”
  • Hindi: “पोर्टो रीको”
  • Hindi: “प्युर्तो रिको”
  • Hindi: “प्यूर्टो रिको”
  • Hungarian: “Puerto Ricó-i Nemzetközösség”
  • Hungarian: “Puerto Rico”
  • Icelandic: “Púertó Ríkó”
  • Ido: “Porto-Riko”
  • Ido: “Portuo Riko”
  • Igbo: “Puerto Rico”
  • Iloko: “Puerto Rico”
  • Indonesian: “Puerto Riko”
  • Interlingua: “Porto Rico”
  • Irish: “Pórtó Ríce”
  • Italian: “Porto Rico”
  • Italian: “Portorico”
  • Jamaican Creole English: “Puoto Riiko”
  • Japanese: “プエルトリコ”
  • Japanese: “プエルトリコ自治連邦区”
  • Javanese: “Puerto Riko”
  • Javanese: “Puérto Riko”
  • Javanese: “Puèrto Riko”
  • Kalaallisut: “Puerto Rico”
  • Kannada: “ಪೋರ್ಟೊ ರಿಕೊ”
  • Kannada: “ಪ್ಯೂರ್ಟೋ ರಿಕೊ”
  • Kara-Kalpak: “Puerto Riko”
  • Kara-Kalpak: “Puerto-Riko”
  • Karachay-Balkar: “Пуэрто-Рико”
  • Kashmiri: “پٔرٹو رِکو”
  • Kazakh: “Пуэрто-Рико”
  • Khmer: “ព័រតូរីកូ”
  • Kikuyu: “Pwetoriko”
  • Kinyarwanda: “Puwerito Riko”
  • Kirghiz: “Пуэрто-Рико”
  • Korean: “푸에르토리코”
  • Kurdish: “Porto Rîko”
  • Ladin: “Puerto Rico”
  • Ladino: “Puerto Riko”
  • Lao: “ເພືອໂຕ ຣິໂກ”
  • Latin: “Portus Dives”
  • Latvian: “Puertoriko”
  • Ligurian: “Pòrto Ricco”
  • Limburgan: “Puerto Rico”
  • Lingala: “Pɔtoriko”
  • Lingala: “Puerto Rico”
  • Lingua Franca Nova: “Porto Rica”
  • Lithuanian: “Puerto Rikas”
  • Lombard: “Puerto Rico”
  • Low German: “Puerto Rico”
  • Lower Sorbian: “Puerto Rico”
  • Luba-Katanga: “Mpotoriku”
  • Luxembourgish: “Puerto Rico”
  • Macedonian: “Порторико”
  • Malagasy: “Pôrtô Rikô”
  • Malagasy: “Pôrtô-Rikô”
  • Malagasy: “Puerto Rico”
  • Malay: “Puerto Rico”
  • Malay: “ڤوءيرتو ريکو”
  • Malayalam: “പോർട്ടോ റിക്കോ”
  • Maltese: “Commonwealth ta’ Puerto Rico”
  • Maltese: “Puerto Rico”
  • Manx: “Yn Phurt Verçhagh”
  • Maori: “Peta Riko”
  • Marathi: “पोर्तो रिको”
  • Marathi: “प्युएर्तो रिको”
  • Mazanderani: “پورتوریکو”
  • Min Dong Chinese: “Puerto Rico”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Puerto Rico”
  • Mingrelian: “პუერტო-რიკო”
  • Mongolian: “Пуэрто Рико”
  • Mongolian: “Пуэрто-Рико”
  • Moroccan Arabic: “پويرطوريكو”
  • Nepali: “पुएर्टो रिको”
  • Nepali: “पोर्तो रिको”
  • Nepali: “प्युर्तो रिको”
  • Newari: “पुएर्तो रिको”
  • North Ndebele: “Puerto Rico”
  • Northern Frisian: “Puerto Riko”
  • Northern Luri: “پورتوریکو”
  • Northern Sami: “Puerto Rico”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Puerto Rico”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Puerto Rico”
  • Norwegian: “Puerto Rico”
  • Novial: “Puerto Riko”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Puerto Rico”
  • Old English (ca. 450-1100): “Port Rīclond”
  • Old English (ca. 450-1100): “Puerto Rico”
  • Oriya: “ପୁଏର୍ତ୍ତୋ ରିକୋ”
  • Ossetian: “Пуэрто-Рико”
  • Panjabi: “ਪਿਊਰਟੋ ਰਿਕੋ”
  • Panjabi: “ਪੁਇਰਤੋ ਰੀਕੋ”
  • Panjabi: “ਪੁਏਰਤੋ ਰੀਕੋ”
  • Papiamento: “Puerto Rico”
  • Persian: “پورتوریکو”
  • Picard: “Porto Rico”
  • Piemontese: “Porto Rico”
  • Pitcairn-Norfolk: “Puerto Rico”
  • Polish: “Portoryko”
  • Portuguese: “Estado Livre Associado de Porto Rico”
  • Portuguese: “Porto Rico”
  • Portuguese: “Puerto Rico”
  • Portuguese: “Território de Porto Rico”
  • Pushto: “پورتو ریکو”
  • Pushto: “پورتوريکو”
  • Quechua: “Burinkin”
  • Quechua: “Puerto Rico”
  • Quechua: “Purinkin”
  • Romanian: “Porto Rico”
  • Romanian: “Puerto Rico, USA”
  • Romanian: “Puerto Rico”
  • Romansh: “Puerto Rico”
  • Rundi: “Puwetoriko”
  • Russian: “Пуэрто-Рико”
  • Russian: “Свободно ассоциированное государство Пуэрто-Рико”
  • Russian: “Свободно присоединившееся государство Пуэрто-Рико”
  • Russian: “Содружество Пуэрто-Рико”
  • Sakizaya: “Puerto rico”
  • Sakizaya: “Puerto Rico”
  • Samogitian: “Puerto Rėks”
  • Sango: “Porto Rîko”
  • Sardinian: “Puerto Rico”
  • Scots: “Free Associatit State o Puerto Rico”
  • Scots: “Puerto Rico”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “Porto Rìceo”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “Puerto Rico”
  • Serbian: “Порторико”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Portoriko”
  • Shan: “ပေႃႇတူဝ်ႇရီးၵူဝ်း”
  • Shona: “Puerto Rico”
  • Sicilian: “Portu Ricu”
  • Silesian: “Portoryko”
  • Sindhi: “پورٽو ريڪو”
  • Sindhi: “پيوئرٽو ريڪو”
  • Sinhala: “පුවටෝ රිකෝ”
  • Sinhala: “පුවර්ටෝ රිකෝ”
  • Slovak: “Portorické spoločenstvo”
  • Slovak: “Portoriko”
  • Slovenian: “Portoriko”
  • Somali: “Bueerto Riiko”
  • Somali: “Buerto Riko”
  • South Azerbaijani: “پورتو ریکو”
  • Spanish: “Borinquen”
  • Spanish: “Estado Libre Asociado de Puerto Rico”
  • Spanish: “Isla del Encanto”
  • Spanish: “Mancomunidad de Puerto Rico”
  • Spanish: “Puerto Rico”
  • Spanish: “Territorio de Puerto Rico”
  • Spanish: “Territorio Estadounidense de Puerto Rico”
  • Sundanese: “Puérto Riko”
  • Swahili: “Puerto Rico”
  • Swedish: “Puerto Rico”
  • Swiss German: “Puerto Rico”
  • Tagalog: “Puerto Rico”
  • Tajik: “Пуэрто Рико”
  • Tajik: “Пуэрто-Рико”
  • Tamil: “பியூர்டோ ரிகோ”
  • Tamil: “புயர்டோ ரிக்கோ”
  • Tamil: “புவேர்ட்டோ ரிக்கோ”
  • Taroko: “Puerto Rico”
  • Tatar: “Пуэрто-Рико”
  • Telugu: “ప్యూర్టో రికో”
  • Telugu: “ఫ్యూర్టో రికో”
  • Thai: “ปวยร์โตรีโก”
  • Thai: “เปอร์โตริโก”
  • Tigrinya: “ፖርታ ሪኮ”
  • Tonga (Tonga Islands): “Puēto Liko”
  • Tosk Albanian: “Puerto Rico”
  • Tumbuka: “Puerto Rico”
  • Turkish: “Porto Riko”
  • Turkmen: “Puerto-riko”
  • Turkmen: “Puerto-Riko”
  • Uighur: “پوئېرتو رىكو”
  • Uighur: “پۇئېرتو رىكو”
  • Ukrainian: “Пуерто-Рико”
  • Upper Sorbian: “Puerto Rico”
  • Urdu: “پورٹو ریکو”
  • Urdu: “پیورٹو ریکو”
  • Uzbek: “Puerto-Riko”
  • Venetian: “Porto Rico”
  • Vietnamese: “Puerto Rico”
  • Vlax Romani: “Puerto Rico”
  • Volapük: “Puertorikeäns”
  • Walloon: “Porto Rico”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Puerto Rico”
  • Welsh: “Puerto Rico”
  • Western Armenian: “Փորթօ Ռիքօ”
  • Western Frisian: “Porto Riko”
  • Western Frisian: “Puerto Rico”
  • Western Frisian: “Puerto Riko”
  • Western Panjabi: “پورٹو ریکو”
  • Wolof: “Poortorikoo”
  • Wolof: “Porto Riko”
  • Wu Chinese: “布爱勒导里高”
  • Wu Chinese: “波多黎各”
  • Yakut: “Пуэрто-Рико”
  • Yiddish: “פּארטא־ריקא”
  • Yoruba: “Pọto Riko”
  • Yoruba: “Púẹ́rtò Ríkò”
  • Yue Chinese: “波多黎各”
  • Zeeuws: “Puerto Rico”
  • Zulu: “i-Puerto Rico”
  • “ISO 3166-1:PR”
  • “ma Petoliko”
  • “ma Poliken”
  • “ma Polinken”
  • “PR”
  • “PRI”
  • “Puerto Rėks”
  • “Puerto Rico”
  • “PUR”
  • “US-PR”
  • “पोर्तो रिको”

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