{"population":3285874,"blurb":{"text":"Puerto Rico, officially the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, is a self-governing Caribbean archipelago and island organized as an unincorporated territory of the United States under the designation of commonwealth. Located about 1,000 miles (1,600 km) southeast of Miami, Florida, between the Dominican Republic in the Greater Antilles and the U.S. Virgin Islands in the Lesser Antilles, it consists of the eponymous main island and numerous smaller islands, including Vieques, Culebra, and Mona. With approximately 3.2 million people, it is divided into 78 municipalities, of which the most populous is the capital municipality of San Juan, followed by those within the San Juan metropolitan area. Spanish and English are the official languages of the government, though Spanish predominates.","url":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Puerto_Rico"},"vexillology":{"text":"The flag of Puerto Rico, officially the Flag of the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, represents Puerto Rico and its people. It consists of five equal horizontal stripes, alternating from red to white, with a blue equilateral triangle based on the hoist side bearing a large, sharp, upright, five-pointed white star in the center. The white star stands for the archipelago and island, the three sides of the triangle for the three branches of the government, the blue for the sky and coastal waters, the red for the blood shed by warriors, and the white for liberty, victory, and peace. The flag is popularly known as the Monoestrellada (Monostarred), meaning having one star, a single star, or a lone star. It is in the Stars and Stripes flag family.","url":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flag_of_Puerto_Rico"},"flagDesign":{"text":"In 1868, Puerto Rican pro-independence leader Ramón Emeterio Betances, urged Eduvigis Beauchamp Sterling to sew the revolutionary flag of the Grito de Lares (Cry of Lares) revolt, the emblem of the first of two short-lived revolts against Spanish rule in the island, using as design the quartered flag of the First Dominican Republic and the lone star of the Cuban flag with the aim of promoting Betances’ idea of uniting the three neighboring Spanish-speaking Caribbean territories of Puerto Rico, Cuba, and the Dominican Republic into an Antillean Confederation for the protection and preservation of their sovereignty and interests.\n\nAccording to Puerto Rican poet Luis Lloréns Torres, the white cross stands for the yearning of homeland redemption, the red rectangles for the blood poured by the heroes of the revolt, and the white star for liberty and freedom. It’s assumed that like the blue triangle of the revolutionary flag of 1895, the blue rectangles of the Lares flag stand for the sky and waters of the island.\n\nIn December 1895, around fifty exiled Puerto Rican revolutionaries, many of them veterans of the Grito de Lares (Cry of Lares) revolt, re-established the Revolutionary…","url":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flag_of_Puerto_Rico"},"photos":["https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/0/03/Arrozcongandules2.jpg","https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/26/Beach_in_Coto%2C_Isabela%2C_Puerto_Rico.jpg/500px-Beach_in_Coto%2C_Isabela%2C_Puerto_Rico.jpg","https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/c/ce/Common_Coqu%C3%AD.jpg","https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/83/DR_vs_PR._World_Baseball_Classic.jpg/500px-DR_vs_PR._World_Baseball_Classic.jpg"]}