 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
Research Home
 Tools Thesaurus of Geographic Names Full Record Display
|
|
|
|
 |
|
|
|
 |
 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
Vernacular Display | English Display |
|
|
|
|
|
|
Click the  icon to view the hierarchy. |
|
|
Puerto Rico (unincorporated territory) |
Coordinates: |
| Lat: 18 14 00 N degrees minutes |
Lat: 18.2333 decimal degrees |
| Long: 066 33 00 W degrees minutes |
Long: -66.5500 decimal degrees |
|
Note: Earliest inhabitants immigrated from Florida or Orinoco basin of South America; was inhabited by Arawaks under threat from Caribs when Columbus visited in 1493; Spanish settlers wiped out Arawaks, brought Africans here as slaves for gold mines & plantations; official language is Spanish, though English is also spoken. Puerto Rico does not have first-order administrative divisions according to CIA World Factbook, instead at the second order it has 78 municipalities. |
Names: |
|
| Puerto Rico (preferred,C,V,English-P,U,N)
|
............ | used since 1932, means "rich port" |
| Puerto Rico (Somali)
|
| Puerto Rico (Maltese)
|
| Puerto Rico (Vietnamese)
|
| Puerto Rico (Magyar (Hungarian))
|
| Puerto Rico (Danish)
|
| Puerto Rico (Norwegian (Nynorsk))
|
| Puerto Rico (Finnish)
|
| Puerto Rico (Swedish)
|
| Puerto Rico (Spanish)
|
| Puerto Rico (Catalan)
|
| Puerto Rico (Basque)
|
| Puerto Rico (Welsh)
|
| Puerto Rico (German)
|
| Puerto Rico (Breton)
|
| Puerto Rico (Dutch)
|
| Puerto Rico (Afrikaans)
|
| Puerto Rico (Faroese)
|
| Puerto Rico (Estonian)
|
| Puerto Rico (Greenlandic)
|
| Puerto Rico (Norwegian (Bokmål))
|
| Puerto Rico (Romansh)
|
| Puerto Rico (Malay (macrolanguage))
|
| Puerto Rico (North Ndebele)
|
| Puerto Rico (Northern Sami)
|
| Puerto Rico (Shona)
|
| Estado Libre Asociado de Puerto Rico (C,V,Spanish)
|
| Estado Libre Asociado Puerto Rico (C,V)
|
| Commonwealth of Puerto Rico (C,O,English)
|
| Borinquen (C,V,Spanish)
|
| San Juan Bautista (C,V)
|
| PRI (C,O,ISO3L)
|
| PR (C,O,ISO2L)
|
| ISO630 (C,O,ISO3N)
|
| RQ (C,V,FIPS)
|
| Puerto Rican (C,V,English,U,A)
|
| Puertorriqueño (C,V,Spanish,U,A)
|
| פוארטו ריקו (C,U,Hebrew )
|
| Borikén (C,U)
|
| i-Puerto Rico (C,U,O,Zulu)
|
| Mpotoriku (C,U,Luba-Katanga)
|
| Orílẹ́ède Pọto Riko (C,U,Yoruba)
|
| Portó Ríce (C,U,Irish Gaelic)
|
| Portorico (C,U,Italian)
|
| Porto Riko (C,U,Bosnian)
|
| Porto Riko (Hausa)
|
| Porto Riko (Turkish)
|
| Pôrtô Rikô (C,U,Malagasy)
|
| Portoriko (C,U,Croatian)
|
| Portoriko (Slovak)
|
| Portoriko (Slovene)
|
| Portoriko (Czech)
|
| Porto Rîko (C,U,Sangho)
|
| Porto Rikoo (C,U,Fulah)
|
| Portoryko (C,U,Polish)
|
| Potoriko (C,U,Ganda (Ugandan language))
|
| Pɔrotoriko (C,U,Bambara)
|
| Pɔtoriko (C,U,Lingala)
|
| Puerto Rikas (C,U,Lithuanian)
|
| Puerto-Riko (C,U,Esperanto)
|
| Púertó Ríkó (C,U,Icelandic)
|
| Puertoriko (C,U,Latvian)
|
| Puerto Riko (C,U,Indonesian)
|
| Puerto Riko (Azerbaijani)
|
| Puerto Riko nutome (C,U,Ewe)
|
| Pueto Liko (C,U,Tonga (Tonga Islands))
|
| Puɛto Riko (C,U,Akan)
|
| Puwetoriko (C,U,Rundi)
|
| Pwetoriko (C,U,Kikuyu)
|
| Pwetoriko (Swahili (generic))
|
| Territory of Porto Rice (C,U)
|
| Порторико (C,U,Macedonian)
|
| પ્યુઅર્ટો રિકો (C,U,Gujarati)
|
| Пуэрто-Рико (C,U,Russian)
|
| পুয়ের্টোরিকো (C,U,Bengali)
|
| پورتوریکو (C,U,Persian-Farsi)
|
| പോര്ട്ടോ റിക്കോ (C,U,Malayalam)
|
| ເປີໂຕລິໂກ (C,U,Lao)
|
| प्युर्टोरिको (C,U,Nepali)
|
| پیورٹو ریکو (C,U,Urdu)
|
| 波多黎各 (C,U,Chinese)
|
| Пуерто Рико (C,U,Bulgarian)
|
| पर्टो रीको (C,U,Hindi)
|
| Порто Рико (C,U,Serbian)
|
| पोर्टो रिको (C,U,Marathi)
|
| プエルトリコ (C,U,Japanese)
|
| ပေါ်တူရီကို (C,U,Burmese)
|
| بورتوريكو (C,U,Arabic)
|
| పోటోరికో (C,U,Telugu)
|
| Πουέρτο Ρίκο (C,U,Greek)
|
| ፖርታ ሪኮ (C,U,Tigrinya)
|
| ፖርታ ሪኮ (Amharic)
|
| 푸에르토리코 (C,U,Korean)
|
| ಪ್ಯೂರ್ಟೋ ರಿಕೊ (C,U,Kannada)
|
| Пуерто-Ріко (C,U,Ukrainian)
|
| פורטו ריקו (C,U,Hebrew )
|
| ପୁଏର୍ତ୍ତୋ ରିକୋ (C,U,Odia)
|
| პუერტო რიკო (C,U,Georgian)
|
| பியூர்டோ ரிகோ (C,U,Tamil)
|
| เปอร์โตริโก (C,U,Thai)
|
| ព័រតូរីកូ (C,U,Khmer)
|
| Porto Rico (H,V,Portuguese)
|
............ | used until 1932 |
| Porto Rico (Romanian)
|
| Porto Rico (French)
|
| Porto Rico (Galician)
|
| St. Juan de Porto Rico (H,V)
|
............ | original name used on early maps |
|
Hierarchical Position: |
|
|
Additional Parents: |
|
| | |
|
|
Place Types: |
|
| unincorporated territory (preferred, C) |
............ |
possession of USA since 1898, commonwealth with internal autonomy since 1952 |
| dependent state (C) |
|
| primary political unit (C) |
|
| commonwealth (C) |
|
| former territory/colony/dependent state (C) |
|
| colony (H) |
............ |
Spanish, until ceded to USA during Spanish-American War in 1898 |
| unincorporated area (C) |
|
| dependent political entity (C) |
|
|
Related geographic places: |
|
| capital is .... |
San Juan .......... (inhabited place) |
| .................. |
(World, North and Central America, Puerto Rico, San Juan) [7005859] |
|
Sources and Contributors: |
|
|
|
