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Puerto Rico


(pwer-tuh, pawr-tuh REE-koh) Island in the Caribbean Sea, southeast of Miami, Florida. Its capital and largest city is San Juan.	1
‡ Puerto Rico is a commonwealth of the United States. Citizens of Puerto Rico are also American citizens but do not vote in federal elections and do not pay federal taxes on their local earnings.	2

The New Dictionary of Cultural Literacy, Third Edition. Edited by E.D. Hirsch, Jr., Joseph F. Kett, and James Trefil. Copyright © 2002 by Houghton Mifflin Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved.

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