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Puerto Rico
Puerto Rico, officially known as the Commonwealth of
Puerto Rico (Estado Libre Asociado de Puerto Rico), is an
unincorporated territory of the United States, located in
the northeastern Caribbean, east of the Dominican
Republic and west of both the U.S. Virgin Islands and the
British Virgin Islands.
3.3
million residents
The largest city is San Juan, the
island’s capital making it the 46th
largest city in USA
Puerto Rico is only 100 miles long by 35 miles wide,
making it the smallest island of the Greater Antilles.
Puerto Rico (Spanish for “rich port”) consists of an
archipelago that includes the main island of Puerto
Rico and several islands: Vieques, Culebra, Mona and
numerous islets.
The archipelago is home to 3.337 million people, its
capital San Juan harbors almost 418,140 citizens making
it the most populated cities in the main island.
Combined with nine other municipalities form the
Metropolitan Area. There are 78 municipalities to which
four of them are considered major cities.
The primary languages of Puerto Rico are Spanish
and English, Spanish being the dominant language of
education and daily life on the island, spoken by over
95% of the population. Public school instruction in
Puerto Rico is conducted entirely in Spanish.
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The second largest city is Bayamon
which has 179,565
22% of the total population are Millennials