puerto rico: I'm doing a report on puerto rico and i was wondering how far it was from the united states.|||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.|||From Miami to San Juan, it is 1,045 miles, as the 747 flies.|||If you trace a strait line from San Juan PR to Miami, FL. the distance in miles is, 1038.21miles. From San Juan to New York is 1599.29 miles. From Phoenix AZ To San Juan PR is 3,014.15 miles.|||It depends where you are at the time. From Chicago to San Juan is 5 hours by plane. From Florida to Puerto Rico is about 2 hours. From New York to San Juan about 3 and a half hour. I'm guessing you don't want facts because you know how to find that on the internet. So I decided to give you an answer based on experience. Now you know that Puerto Rico is not so far away from the United States as is Hawaii, that is basically in the middle of the Pacific Ocean. God bless you|||From NY is 3 1/2 Hours in a Airplane..|||Not Far enough they come here in droids collect welfare and then complain about it here and go around screaming the P.R.is number one it makes me sick to watch