Brazil vs Puerto Rico

Brazil is 935 times larger than Puerto Rico — 8,515,770 against 9,104 km². Brazil is 67 times more populous than Puerto Rico — 212,812,405 against 3,184,835 people.

Side by side

Population density

Puerto Rico is 14 times more densely populated than Brazil — 350 against 25 people per km². Density is where area and population interact, and it often reverses the impression the headline figures give — a large country with a small population can feel emptier than a small crowded one by an enormous margin.

Practical differences

• Different currencies: the Brazilian real and the United States dollar.
• Brazil spans 4 time zones, so "local time" there is not a single answer.
• Different continents — South America and North America.

Brazil

The fifth-largest country in the world and the largest in the southern hemisphere. It holds about sixty percent of the Amazon rainforest, and the Amazon River discharges roughly a fifth of all the fresh water that reaches the world's oceans — more than the next seven rivers combined. Brazil borders every South American country except Chile and Ecuador.

Puerto Rico

The Puerto Rico Trench off the north coast reaches about 8,400 m, the deepest point in the Atlantic Ocean. El Yunque is the only tropical rainforest in the United States National Forest system. Mosquito Bay on Vieques is the brightest bioluminescent bay in the world, lit by dinoflagellates in the water.

Neutral facts only. Nothing here addresses politics, government, economics or which country is preferable in any respect — population is the one figure that dates, and it carries its year.