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The United States received the property as part of the settlement of the Spanish-American War. Due to Puerto Rico's strategic location and its distance away from the Panama Canal, the US only strengthen its ties to the island.

Puerto Rico also inhabits a kind of strange legal limbo land with regards to its sovereignty and owership. It is technically the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico. All Puerto Ricans are US Citizens, but it is not a full State, not a Territory, and not an Administered Region. In all likelihood, should a referendum declaring independence pass at some point, it would be legally binding (which is NOT the case for Territories and States, which cannot legally secede). Until such a point, however, Puerto Rico is considered legal US soil, and thus, is "owned" by the United States.

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