City Mayors: The largest cities in the world ranked by population (1 to 125) City Mayors ranks the largest cities and urban areas in the world. It also ranks the largest cities in individual countries, and provides a list of the capital cities of some 200 sovereign countries
The Commonwealth of Puerto Rico is an archipelago, located in the northeastern Caribbean. It is an unincorporated territory of the United States of American and is situated east of the Dominican Republic and west of United States Virgin Islands and the British Virgin Islands.uerto Rico has a republican form of government, with powers that are subject to the jurisdiction and sovereignty of the United States. The head of state is the President of the US and the head of government is the country's Governor. The territory has 3 branches of government: executive, legislative, and judicial.
Puerto Ricans are natural-born citizens of the United States. The territory operates under a local constitution, and its citizens elect a governor. Puerto Rico's residents are unable to vote in the U.S. Congress, which has plenary jurisdiction over the territory under the Puerto Rico Federal Relations Act of 1950.n comparison to the different states of the United States, Puerto Rico is poorer than Mississippi (the poorest state of the U.S.) with 41% of its population below the poverty line. When compared to Latin America, Puerto Rico has the highest GDP per capita in the region.