Puerto Rico

Official Name: Estado Libre Asociado de Puerto Rico
Capitals: San Juan
Population: 3,143,000 (2021 est.)
Size: 162nd* largest country in the world (9,104 km2)
• Puerto Rico is Spanish for “rich port”
• Considered the world’s oldest colony
• Home to the brightest bioluminescent bay in the world
• Home to the deepest point of the Atlantic Ocean at 8,376 metres deep
• Officially not a country—but a territory of the United States
• Puerto Rico’s national animal is the small coqui tree frog
• The flag’s star represents the Commonwealth, the three sides of the triangle represent the legislative, executive and judicial branches of government, the red stripes represent the blood
that feed those parts of the government and the white stripes represent the rights and the freedom of the individual.