Puerto Rico vs United Kingdom

United Kingdom is 27 times larger than Puerto Rico — 243,610 against 9,104 km². United Kingdom is 22 times more populous than Puerto Rico — 69,487,000 against 3,184,835 people.

Side by side

Population density

Puerto Rico is 1.2 times more densely populated than United Kingdom — 350 against 285 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

• They drive on opposite sides — Puerto Rico on the right, United Kingdom on the left.
• Different currencies: the United States dollar and the British pound.
• Different continents — North America and Europe.

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.

United Kingdom

Made up of Great Britain, the north-east of Ireland and around 6,000 smaller islands. No point in the UK is more than about 113 km from the sea. Ben Nevis, the highest point, is 1,345 m, which is modest — but the country has around 31,000 km of coastline once every inlet is counted.

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.