Puerto Rico
Query URLs
https://term.museum-digital.de/md-de/place/22155
- Note
- "Puerto Rico[a] (Spanish for ´Rich Port´; abbreviated PR, Taino: Boriken, Borinquen), officially the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico (Spanish: Estado Libre Asociado de Puerto Rico, lit. ´Free Associated State of Puerto Rico´)[b] and from 1898 to 1932 also called Porto Rico in English,[c] is an unincorporated territory of the United States located in the northeast Caribbean Sea, approximately 1,000 miles (1,600 km) southeast of Miami, Florida.
Puerto Rico is an archipelago among the Greater Antilles located between the Dominican Republic and the U.S. Virgin Islands; it includes the eponymous main island and several smaller islands, such as Mona, Culebra, and Vieques. The capital and most populous city is San Juan. The unincorporated territory´s total population is approximately 3.2 million, which is more than 20 U.S. states. Spanish and English are the official languages of the executive branch of government, though Spanish predominates." - (en.wikipedia.org 18.12.2020) - Latitude
- 18.25
- Longitude
- -66.5
- Population
- 3,195,153
- Elevation
- 454
- Time zone
- America/Puerto_Rico
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