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Puerto Rico: map and facts

Puerto Rico is in the Caribbean. It has about 3.18 million people (2025). It covers 8,870 km². That is about 359 people per km². Its highest point is Cerro de Punta, at 1,338 m.

Puerto Rico and the sea around it. The triangle marks its highest point, Cerro de Punta; the circle marks its capital, San Juan. Boundaries follow India’s official position.

Facts

Population: 3,184,835 (2025, World Bank)
Area: 8,870 km² (2024, World Bank)
Capital: San Juan
Highest point: Cerro de Punta, 1,338 m (Wikidata)
Forest: 49.7% of the land (2024, World Bank)

Mountains and landscapes

Its highest peaks:

Cerro de Punta: 1,338 m (its highest point)
Pico El Yunque: 1,080 m

Land

Land cover seen from satellites (NASA MODIS, 2024): wooded savanna 39.4%, evergreen broadleaf forest 26.7%, towns and cities 13.9%, farmland 5.9%, grassland 5.6%, savanna 3.7%.

Landforms, worked out from the height of the land (USGS GMTED2010): hills 54.2%, mountains 33.7%, plains 12.1%.

Forests covered 49.7% of its land in 2024, up from 34.3% in 1990 (World Bank).

Neighbours

Puerto Rico has no land borders on this map.

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Sources

India’s boundaries are drawn according to India’s official position, simplified for small-scale maps (data: Natural Earth, India view). Each figure shows its year and source; some are rounded. Data release 2026.2.

Natural Earth (naturalearthdata.com), public domain. Boundaries follow India's official position (Natural Earth's India point of view). Terms
GMTED2010 courtesy of the U.S. Geological Survey (Danielson and Gesch 2011, USGS Open-File Report 2011-1073). Terms
Friedl, M., Sulla-Menashe, D. (2022). MODIS/Terra+Aqua Land Cover Type Yearly L3 Global 500m SIN Grid V061. NASA EOSDIS Land Processes DAAC. doi:10.5067/MODIS/MCD12Q1.061. Terms
The World Bank: World Development Indicators, Population, total (SP.POP.TOTL): UN Population Division, national statistical offices (2025 data, retrieved 2026-10-17). CC BY 4.0. Rounded by Make Me Smarter. Terms
The World Bank: World Development Indicators, Surface area (AG.SRF.TOTL.K2): FAO (2024 data, retrieved 2026-10-17). CC BY 4.0. Terms
The World Bank: World Development Indicators, Forest area (% of land area) (AG.LND.FRST.ZS): FAO, FAOSTAT (2024 data, retrieved 2026-10-17). CC BY 4.0. Rounded by Make Me Smarter. Terms
Wikidata (CC0): names, capitals, peak heights and river lengths, checked by Make Me Smarter. Terms
Landforms worked out by Make Me Smarter from GMTED2010.

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