Puerto Rico
| Estado Libre Asociado de Puerto Rico Commonwealth of Puerto Rico | ||||||
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| Motto Latin: Joannes Est Nomen Eius; Spanish: Juan es su nombre (English: "John is his name") | ||||||
| Anthem La BorinqueA?a | ||||||
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| Capital (and largest city) | San Juan | |||||
| Official languages | Spanish and English | |||||
| Government | U.S. Commonwealth | |||||
| - | President | George W. Bush | ||||
| - | Governor | AnA?bal Acevedo VilA? | ||||
| Independence | None (U.S. territory with Commonwealth status) | |||||
| Area | ||||||
| - | Total | 9,104 kmA? (169th) 3,514 sq mi | ||||
| - | Water (%) | 1.6 | ||||
| Population | ||||||
| - | July 2005 estimate | 3,912,055 (126th) | ||||
| - | 2005 census | 3,913,054 | ||||
| - | Density | 434 /kmA? (21st) 1,115 /sq mi | ||||
| GDP (PPP) | 2005 estimate | |||||
| - | Total | $72.37 billion (68th) | ||||
| - | Per capita | $18,500 (N/A) | ||||
| Currency | United States dollar (USD) | |||||
| Time zone | AST (UTC-4) | |||||
| - | Summer (DST) | No DST (UTC-4) | ||||
| Internet TLD | .pr; .us | |||||
| Calling code | +1-787 and +1-939 | |||||
The Commonwealth of Puerto Rico (Spanish: Estado Libre Asociado de Puerto Rico, IPA ), also Porto Rico (archaic) and more commonly Puerto Rico, is a United States unincorporated territory with Commonwealth status located in the northeastern Caribbean, east of the Dominican Republic and west of the Virgin Islands; about 1500 km (1,000 miles) off the south coast of Florida. The archipelago of Puerto Rico includes the main island of Puerto Rico, the smallest of the Greater Antilles, and a number of smaller islands and keys, the largest of which are Mona, Vieques, and Culebra. Puerto Ricans sometimes refer to their island as BorikA?n, or the Spanish variant Borinquen, a name for the island used by indigenous TaA?no people, and from which derives a term used for Puerto Ricans: 'boricua'.
The nature of Puerto Rico's political relationship with the United States is the subject of ongoing debate in the island, the United States Congress, and the United Nations. Those who support maintaining the status quo (i.e., Commonwealth status) insist that upon attaining this status, Puerto Rico entered into a voluntary association with the U.S. "in the nature of a compact", but according to a President's Task Force report , Puerto Rico is an unincorporated organized territory of the United States, subject to the plenary powers of the U.S. Congress and with the "right to establish a constitution for the internal administration of government and on matters of purely local concern".
