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Puerto Rico

Puerto Rico is an unincorporated territory of the United States (a commonwealth), in Caribbean. UN Tourism counted 4.9 million international arrivals there in 2019, more visited than 65% of the 199 places with figures, so its stamp in Globestamp is printed in Colour-shift.

Puerto Rico’s stamp in Globestamp
Colour-shift · 2 to 6 million visitors a year
International arrivals
4.9 millionin 2019, UN Tourism
Rank by visitors
70th of 199most visited first
Stamp finish
Colour-shiftrarer than 35%
Area
9,035 km² (3,488 sq mi)
Population
3.2 millionNatural Earth estimate
Airports
8with scheduled flights

Does Puerto Rico count as a country?

It depends on the list. Puerto Rico is an unincorporated territory of the United States (a commonwealth), so it is not one of the UN’s 193 members, but Globestamp’s list of 250 countries and territories counts it on its own. The Travelers’ Century Club counts it as “Puerto Rico”.

ListCounts Puerto Rico?
UN member states (193)No
Globestamp’s countries and territories (250)Yes
Travelers’ Century Club (330)Yes, as Puerto Rico
European UnionNo
Schengen areaNo

Puerto Rico belongs to the United States, but travelers usually count it on its own, because it has its own entry rules, its own flag or its own place on the map. Other places in the same family: American Samoa, Guam, Northern Mariana Islands, United States Minor Outlying Islands and United States Virgin Islands.

The Puerto Rico stamp

Every country in Globestamp has its own stamp, drawn after a real entry stamp. Its finish shows how few travelers get there. Puerto Rico’s is Colour-shift: one colour straight on, another at an angle, the finish for places with 2 to 6 million visitors a year. With 4.9 million international arrivals in 2019, Puerto Rico is more visited than 65% of the 199 places with figures. See every stamp on the stamp wall, or the rarest on the least-visited countries.

What counts as a visit to Puerto Rico

The common rule among travelers is that you set foot there: an airport layover usually doesn’t count, and a port where you went ashore does. Globestamp counts Puerto Rico when one of your photos was taken on its ground, or just off its coast; a photo taken from a plane never counts. Photos only at an airport make a transit stamp in lighter ink, counted only if you count layovers. Read more in how to count the countries you’ve visited.

Largest cities

CityPeople (urban area)
San Juan2,478,905
Mayagüez291,339
Ponce160,334
Arecibo69,307

Airports

Puerto Rico has 8 airports with scheduled flights, 1 of them large. Each is a dot on Globestamp’s airports layer, and every flight you log adds to how far you’ve flown (try the flight distance calculator).

Questions people ask

Is Puerto Rico a country?

It depends on the list. Puerto Rico is an unincorporated territory of the United States (a commonwealth), so it is not one of the UN’s 193 members, but Globestamp’s list of 250 countries and territories counts it on its own. The Travelers’ Century Club counts it as “Puerto Rico”.

How many tourists visit Puerto Rico a year?

UN Tourism (via the World Bank) counted 4,931,000 international arrivals in Puerto Rico in 2019, the 70th most of the 199 places with figures. Countries count arrivals in different ways (some include day-trippers and cruise passengers), so treat it as a rough rank rather than an exact number of tourists.

How rare is a Puerto Rico stamp in Globestamp?

It is printed in Colour-shift, the finish for places with 2 to 6 million visitors a year, rarer than 35% of the places with figures. The fewer travelers a place receives, the rarer its finish, from plain Ink to Mythic.

Does Puerto Rico count for the Travelers’ Century Club?

Yes. The Travelers’ Century Club counts it as “Puerto Rico”, one of its 330 destinations.

Places as rare as Puerto Rico

Near Puerto Rico

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