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It's a territory. It has an independent government, constitution, country code, Olympic team, and elections. Functionally, it is a country.
by yardie 9y ago
It's a territory. It has an independent government, constitution, country code, Olympic team, and elections. Functionally, it is a country.
- booleandilemma 9y agoAccording to Wikipedia, Puerto Rico is an unincorporated territory of the United States. Also, it does not appear on Wikipedia's list of sovereign states. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_sovereign_states https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_sovereign_states
- bobbyi_settv 9y agoIt's not a sovereign state. If you're an American, you don't need a passport to fly there.
- kasey_junk 9y agoYou didn't need a passport to go to Canada until relatively recently. That's fairly orthogonal to sovereignty.
- pryelluw 9y agoIts a colony.
- bobbyi_settv 9y agoEach of the 50 states also has a government, constitution and elections.