- Here's some facts about Puerto Rico, formerly known by the Taino people as BORIKEN.
- Puerto Rico is the country with the most cars per square mile in the world: 146 vehicles per street mile and 4,300 vehicles per square mile.
- Plaza Las Americas mall in San Juan is the most profitable mall per square foot in the world.
- The highest grossing Borders book store in US territory is located in Puerto Rico.
- Busiest Toys "R" Us in the world is in Puerto Rico.
- The highest grossing Sears store in the World is in Puerto Rico.
- The highest selling Kmart in the US is in San Juan.
- The Radio Shack store in Plaza Las Americas mall is the busiest and highest grossing Radio Shack in the world.
- The largest JC Penney store in the world (a full 4 stories) is located at Plaza Las Americas mall.
- The Port of San Juan is the fourth busiest seaport in the Western Hemisphere.
- San Juan is the oldest city in US territory (Older than the city of St. Augustine, FL) and was founded in 1508 by Juan Ponce de Leon.
- Piña Colada was "born" in PR in 1954.
- The legal drinking age is 18.
- Puerto Rico has won the Miss Universe pageant a record five times.
- Puerto Rico has the only rain forest in the US- El Yunque.
- The place in the world with more pharmaceutical companies per square mile is Puerto Rico.
- There are about 1,100 people per square mile, a ratio higher than within any of the 50 states in the United States. Puerto Rico's population density per square miles is among the world's highest - only Bangladesh, The Maldives, Barbados, Taiwan, South Korea and the city-states of Hong Kong and Singapore are more crowded.
- Puerto Rico is the third country in the world with more physicians in proportion to its population.
- The Camuy river in Puerto Rico is among the top three longest underground rivers in the world.
- Puerto Rico has one of the highest rates of alcohol consumption in the world.
- The longest pool in the world is located in a hotel in Dorado, PR.
- It is estimated that there is more Nickel in the mountains of Puerto Rico than the whole United States, including Alaska and Hawaii.
- There are more Puerto Ricans living in the rest of the United States than in the island of Puerto Rico itself.
- La Fortaleza in San Juan is the oldest executive mansion in the New World.
- The state of Florida was discovered by Puerto Rico's first governor, Don Juan Ponce de Leon.
- The first shot fired by the United States in World War I was in Puerto Rico by Lt. Teofilo Marxuach.
- 86% of the rum drunk in the U.S. is from Puerto Rico.
- Puerto Rico has one of the world's highest productivity ratios.
- The world's highest concentrations of bioluminescent waters are in Puerto Rico.
- Coffee grown and brewed in Puerto Rico is the official coffee of the Vatican.
- Puerto Rico ranks 6th in the world when it comes to college graduates.
- Puerto Ricans are the only people in the world who regularly applaud when a plane lands and when it reaches the gate.
- Puerto Rico has more Gas Stations, Churches, Cars, Roads, and Walgreens per square mile than any other country in the world.
- World biggest and largest radio telescope is in Puerto Rico.
- Telemundo, the second largest Spanish language television station in the United States, was founded in Puerto Rico.
- Puerto Rico has more rivers per square mile than any other place in the world.
- The second radio station to be inaugurated in the US was in PR.
- The longest running TV program was in Puerto Rico.
- The first Emmy went to a Puerto Rican... Jose Ferrer. He also got the Academy award for the same role.
- Rita Moreno got those two and one for Best Actress in a Broadway show. No one elso has matched that.
- The most outstanding soldier in Europe at the end of the Second WW was chosen from the Pueto Rican 66th Infantry.
- One of the three still living WWI veterans is a Puerto Rican.