PUERTO RICO

About:

• Puerto Rico, officially the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico is an unincorporated territory of the United States.
  
  
• Puerto Ricans have been citizens of the United States since 1917, and can move freely between the island and the mainland.
  
  
• As it is not a state, Puerto Rico does not have a vote in the U.S. Congress, which governs the unincorporated territory with jurisdiction under the Puerto Rico Federal Relations Act of 1950.
  
  

Geography:

• It is located in the northeast Caribbean Sea, approximately 1,000 miles (1,600 km) southeast of Miami, Florida.
  
  
• It is an archipelago among the Greater Antilles located between the Dominican Republic and the U.S. Virgin Islands; it includes the eponymous main island and several smaller islands, such as Mona, Culebra, and Vieques.
  
  
• The capital and most populous city is San Juan.