Puerto Rico – What You Should Know • Puerto Rico is a self-governing commonwealth in association with the United States. It is not a state of the union, but it has been under the control of the United States since it was annexed in 1898, at the end of the Spanish-American War. The chief of state is the US President and the head of government is an elected Governor. • Before it was colonized by Spain in 1508, Puerto Rico was called Boriken or Borinquen, which means: "the great land of the valiant and noble Lord" or "land of the great lords," by its native inhabitants, the Taínos. The word Boricua refers to a person of Puerto Rican origin. • It’s an archipelago, or a group of islands, consisting of one larger island and two inhabited islets in the Caribbean Sea, southeast of Florida and east of Cuba and Hispaniola (Haiti/Dominican Republic.) • The population in Puerto Rico is approx. 3.4 million. • Ethnic composition: white (mostly Spanish origin) 80.5%...
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