Puerto Rico

Puerto Rico

Puerto Rico ranks 99th in number of biographies on Pantheon, behind Malaysia, Cyprus, and Honduras. Memorable people born in present day Puerto Rico include Raul Julia, Joaquin Phoenix, and José Feliciano. Memorable people who died in Puerto Rico include Pablo Casals, Juan Ramón Jiménez, and John Hawkins. Puerto Rico has been the birth place of many actors and singers and the death place of many politicians and military personnels.

Puerto Rico, officially the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, is a Caribbean island, Commonwealth, and unincorporated territory of the United States. It is located in the northeast Caribbean Sea, approximately 1,000 miles (1,600 km) southeast of Miami, Florida, between the Dominican Republic and the U.S. Virgin Islands, and includes the eponymous main island and several smaller islands, such as Mona, Culebra, and Vieques. With roughly 3.2 million residents, it is divided into 78 municipalities, of which the most populous is the capital municipality of San Juan. Spanish and English are the official languages of the executive branch of government, though Spanish predominates. Read more on Wikipedia