Is Puerto Rico a United States territory or affiliated with it?
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Puerto Rico is a US territory. The quote below came from the site indicated where there is a lot more information.
"Under the Commonwealth formula, residents of Puerto Rico lack voting representation in Congress and do not participate in presidential elections. As U.S. citizens, Puerto Ricans are subject to military service and most federal laws. Residents of the Commonwealth pay no federal income tax on locally generated earnings, but Puerto Rican government income-tax rates are set at a level that closely parallels federal-plus-state levies on the mainland."
Yes.
The Commonwealth of Puerto Rico (Spanish: "Estado Libre Asociado de Puerto Rico" and more commonly Puerto Rico, is a self governing unincorporated territory of the United States with Commonwealth status[1] located in the northeastern Caribbean, east of the Dominican Republic and west of the Virgin Islands; approximately two-thousand kilometers (2,000 km; 1,280 miles) off the coast of Florida (the nearest of the mainland United States).
It is not part (not a state , federated capital or incorporated territory)
It is a country, affiliated with a free association with the US as a commonwealth.
Puerto Rico is a commonwealth of the United States. That means they are citizens and can come to the U.S. anytime they want to and also go back. They have the same rights we do but they do not get to vote for our president and other government officials. The have their own government.
PR is a country or nation.
Has a special political/economic relationship with the US, that's it.
Puerto Rico is not one of the states but a territory like Guam and The Virgin Islands. So it is just affiliated wth the states but in government it is a Part of the U.S.
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