What the records say
- When
- 1898
- Kind
- Territorial change
- Where
- Puerto Rico
- Coordinates
- 18.20° N, 66.50° W
- Process
- cession
- Type
- Cession (part yielded to other entity)
- Pop
- 953243
- Area km2
- 8860
- Gaining
- United States
- Losing
- Spain
Placed at the area, not an exact site.
Puerto Rico
U.S. territory in the Caribbean
Puerto Rico, officially the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, is a self-governing Caribbean archipelago and island organized as an unincorporated territory of the United States under the designation of commonwealth. Located about 1,000 miles (1,600 km) southeast of Miami, Florida, between the Dominican Republic in the Greater Antilles and the U.S.
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The source
- COW Territorial Change v6Correlates of War ProjectCorrelates of War: free use with citation