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Is Puerto Rico a state of the United States?

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  • 1 decade ago

    It is a commonwealth of the United States, actually, along with the Northern Mariana Islands. American Samoa, Guam and the United States Virgin Islands are territories. They are referred to collectively as "U.S. overseas dependencies." Our Constitution applies only in-part to them.

    http://macmeekin.com/library/terr+commonw2.htm

    Source(s): Student of U.S. History, Political Science and Geography
  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    territory. It's a commonwealth

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