is puerto rico a u.s. state? and are there 50 or 52 states?

Answer 1

Puerto Rico is NOT a U.S state, it is a territory. There are 50 states in the US

Answer 2

Puerto Rico, is not a State, it is a United States territory with Commonwealth status. Puerto Rico was ceded to the United States under the Treaty of Paris (1898)

There are 50 states.

Answer 3

There are 50 states but Puerto Rico is not one of them.

Answer 4

Puerto Rico is not a U.S state. It is treated as a commonwealth with extra privileges, unlike other US territories(Philippines and the Virgin Islands) Puerto Ricans have the right to vote if they move to the states and can run for state offices.

Answer 5

There are 50 states, and no, Puerto Rico is NOT a state.

Answer 6

There are currently 50 US states,

The Commonwealth of Puerto Rico (Spanish: Estado Libre Asociado de Puerto Rico, is a United States territory with Commonwealth status.

The nature of Puerto Rico's political relationship with the United States is the subject of ongoing debate in the island and also in the United Nations. Those who support maintaining the status quo (i.e., Commonwealth status) insist that upon attaining this status, Puerto Rico entered into a voluntary association with the U.S. "in the nature of a compact", but according to a President's Task Force report, Puerto Rico is an unincorporated organized territory of the United States, subject to the plenary powers of the United States Congress and with the "right to establish a constitution for the internal administration of government and on matters of purely local concern".

However, many islanders have issue with Puerto Rico’s current relationship with the United States - beleiving it to be deeply flawed and now stunting the island’s socio-economic development. They also cite this relationship as having allowed the exploitation of its natural resources by American companies and the United States Navy. The assassination of Mr. Ojeda Rios by agents of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) has also caused a huge amount of concern on the islands.

On July 25, 1898 at the outbreak of the Spanish–American War, Puerto Rico was invaded by the United States with a landing at Guánica. Following the outcome of the war, Spain was forced to cede Puerto Rico, along with Cuba, the Philippines, and Guam to the United States under the Treaty of Paris (1898). Puerto Rico began the twentieth century under the military rule of the United States with officials, including the governor, appointed by the President of the United States. In 1917, the Jones-Shafroth Act extended U.S. citizenship to Puerto Ricans - a status they still hold today. Many Puerto Ricans served in the U.S. Armed Forces beginning in World War I. Natural disasters and the Great Depression impoverished the island. Some political leaders demanded change; some, like Pedro Albizu Campos, would lead a nationalist (The Puerto Rican Nationalist Party) movement in favor of independence. He served many years in prison for seditious conspiracy to overthrow the U.S. Government in Puerto Rico. Luis Muñoz Marín initially favored independence, but saw a severe decline of the Puerto Rican economy, as well as growing violence and uprisings and opted to create the "commonwealth" option instead.

Answer 7

Puerto Rico is the easternmost island of the Greater Antilles in the Caribbean Sea, approximately a thousand miles southeast of Florida and just east of the Dominican Republic and west of the U.S. Virgin Islands. The island is approximately 90 miles wide in an east-west direction and 30 miles wide between the north and south coasts

Puerto Rico is a self-governing commonwealth in association with the United States. The chief of state is the President of the United States of America. The head of government is an elected Governor. There are two legislative chambers: the House of Representatives, 51 seats, and the Senate, 27 seats.
Puerto Rico has authority over its internal affairs. United States
controls: interstate trade, foreign relations and commerce, customs administration, control of air, land and sea, immigration and emigration,nationality and citizenship, currency, maritime laws, military service,military bases, army, navy and air force, declaration of war,constitutionality of laws, jurisdictions and legal procedures, treaties,radio and television--communications, agriculture, mining and minerals,highways, postal system; Social Security, and other areas generally controlled by the federal government in the United States. Puerto Rican institutions control internal affairs unless U.S. law is involved, as in matters of public health and pollution.
The major differences between Puerto Rico and the 50 states are its local taxation system and exemption from Internal Revenue Code, its lack of voting representation in either house of the U.S. Congress, the ineligibility of Puerto Ricans to vote in presidential elections, and its lack of assignation of some revenues reserved for the states.

Answer 8

Puerto Rico is a US Territory, same for Guam, Virgin Islands, etc. They are not states, they are essentially colonies which enjoy the same rights and priveliges as states. There are 50 states in the US.

Answer 9

Puerto Rico is not a state it is a territory.

Answer 10

There are basically 50 states. 40 8 interior the continental united states of america. the different 2 are alaska and hawaii, to offer you the huge 50. puerto rico isn't a "state," we own it quite lots yet they nevertheless are not a factor of the u . s ..