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Puerto Rico (Spanish for 'rich port'; abbreviated PR; Taino: Borikén or Borinquen), officially the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico (Spanish: Estado Libre Asociado de Puerto Rico, lit. 'Free Associated State of Puerto Rico'), is a Caribbean island, Commonwealth, and unincorporated territory of the United … See more
Puerto Rico is Spanish for "rich port". Puerto Ricans often call the island Borinquen, a derivation of Borikén, its indigenous Taíno name, which is popularly said to mean "Land of the Valiant Lord". The terms boricua, … See more
Puerto Rico is classified as a high income economy by the World Bank and International Monetary Fund. It is considered the most … See more
Pre-Columbian era
The ancient history of the archipelago that is now known as Puerto Rico is not well known. Unlike other … See morePuerto Rico has a republican form of government based on the American model, with separation of powers subject to the jurisdiction and … See more
The population of Puerto Rico has been shaped by initial Amerindian settlement, European colonization, slavery, economic migration, and … See more
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- an island of the Greater Antilles in the Caribbean; population 3,700,000 (estimated 2015); official languages, Spanish and English; capital, San Juan. One of the earliest Spanish settlements in the New World, it was ceded to the US in 1898 after the Spanish-American War, and in 1952 it became a commonwealth in voluntary association with the US, with full powers of local government.