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- DictionaryPuerto Rico/ˈriːkəʊ/
- 1. an island of the Greater Antilles in the Caribbean; population 3,700,000 (estimated 2015); official languages, Spanish and English; capital, San Juan. One of the earliest Spanish settlements in the New World, it was ceded to the US in 1898 after the Spanish-American War, and in 1952 it became a commonwealth in voluntary association with the US, with full powers of local government.
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