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Fun fact 1 about Puerto Rico

A 20th-century reconstruction of an 8th-century Taíno village, located at the spot in which their remains were discovered in 1975, in the aftermath of Hurricane Eloise[59]
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Puerto Rico is popularly known in Spanish as La Isla del Encanto, meaning 'the island of enchantment'.

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Puerto Rico

Population
3.2M
Area
9,104 km²
Capital
San Juan
Continent
North America
133rd most populous country in the world

Puerto Rico, officially the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, is a self-governing Caribbean archipelago and island organized as an unincorporated territory of the United States under the designation of commonwealth.

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Photo: Marine 69-71 at English Wikipedia · CC BY-SA 3.0