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Re:Millennials returning to Puerto Rico, launching startups by yardie on Sunday August 06, 2017 @10:54AM (#14941531)
It's a territory. It has an independent government, constitution, country code, Olympic team, and elections. Functionally, it is a country.
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Re:Millennials returning to Puerto Rico, launching startups by booleandilemma on Sunday August 06, 2017 @11:44AM (#14941745)
According 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

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Re:Millennials returning to Puerto Rico, launching startups by bobbyi_settv on Sunday August 06, 2017 @01:20PM (#14942239)
It's not a sovereign state. If you're an American, you don't need a passport to fly there.
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Re:Millennials returning to Puerto Rico, launching startups by kasey_junk on Sunday August 06, 2017 @01:33PM (#14942326)
You didn't need a passport to go to Canada until relatively recently. That's fairly orthogonal to sovereignty.
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Re:Millennials returning to Puerto Rico, launching startups by bobbyi_settv on Sunday August 06, 2017 @01:13PM (#14942193)
Each of the 50 states also has a government, constitution and elections.
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Re:Millennials returning to Puerto Rico, launching startups by pryelluw on Sunday August 06, 2017 @12:56PM (#14942093)
Its a colony.
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