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Can you locate all 31 states of Mexico, and Mexico City?
Can you locate all 26 regions of Peru?
Can you locate all 7 provinces of Costa Rica?
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Puerto Rico is a long, narrow island, about 160 kilometres from Aguadilla in the west to Fajardo in the east, with a mountain range down its middle and the smaller islands of Vieques and Culebra off the east coast. It is divided into 78 municipios, which are the unit of local government, the unit the island reports its data by, and the places everybody gives when asked where they are from. They cover the island without a gap, and none of them is a county or a district of a larger one.
The 78 municipalities of today, named in Spanish. San Juan, the capital, sits on the north coast with the other cities of the metropolitan area around it, and the island's second city, Ponce, is the large municipality on the south coast. Vieques and Culebra are municipalities in their own right, and the smallest places on the map are the tiny coastal ones, which get a circle to tap instead of a sliver to find.
Mona Island, which belongs to Mayagüez, is left off the map because it lies 60 kilometres out in the Mona Passage and would only add empty sea.
The groups are not an official classification. They are the six parts the island is usually described in, and they are a way to learn the map a piece at a time. A few municipalities near a boundary could reasonably be put on either side of it.
San Juan occupies the north coast at the island's widest part, with the old city on an islet at its western end, and is bordered inland by Guaynabo, Trujillo Alto and Carolina.
Ponce is the largest city on the south coast, a broad municipality that runs from the Caribbean up into the mountains, with Juana Díaz to its east and Peñuelas to its west.
Culebra lies east of the main island, with Vieques to its south, and is one of the two municipalities that are not on the main island.
78, and all of them cover land. The game draws every one, including Vieques and Culebra.
No. It is a territory of the United States, and the municipality is its only tier of local government, so the quiz asks for those.
It is part of Mayagüez, but it lies about 60 kilometres west of the main island, and drawing it would shrink every other municipality to make room for a single small island.
No. Puerto Rico publishes no grouping of its municipalities that is both a partition and widely used, so these are the parts the island is commonly described in.
