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The Commonwealth of Puerto Rico (Spanish: "Estado Libre Asociado de Puerto Rico", IPA [estaðo libɾe asosjaðo ðe pweɾto riko]), 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; approximately two-thousand kilometers (2,000 km; 1,280 miles) off the coast of Florida (the nearest of the mainland United States). 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 Borikén, or the Spanish variant Borinquen, a name for the island used by indigenous Taíno people. The current term boricua derives from the Taíno name for the island, and is commonly used to identify oneself as Puerto Rican.

Puerto Rico map

Even though all people born in Puerto Rico are U.S. citizens, 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".

LINKS and REFERENCE

World location map - Puerto Rico

Puerto Rican government

• Official website

Country profiles

• Encyclopaedia Britannica profile

• CIA - The World Factbook

Directories, news and travel

• PRWow! portal, including directories, news, and information on Puerto Rico

• Official Puerto Rico travel and tourism site

• Puerto Rico travel guide from Wikitravel

Photos

• Directory of websites with photo galleries of Puerto Rico

• Site dedicated exclusively to photos of Puerto Rico

• Maps and aerial photos Coordinates: 18.23° -66°

  • Mapping from Multimap or GlobalGuide or Google Maps

  • Aerial image from TerraServer

  • Mapping from OpenStreetMap

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