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Its actually "Boricua" and the Puerto Ricans use it to refer to themselves and where they are from. For example, if you're from Mexico you might say "I am Mexican". In the same way, Puerto Ricans can say "I am Puerto Rican" but a slang for that is also "I am Boricua."

Hi, with all due respect and as a Puerto Rican, I have to make a clarification to the answer; our indigens, the Tainos, called the mail island Puerto Rico "Boriken", that change to Borinquen from those words it where it came the word Boricua. Thank you for the opportunity to clarify.

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Borinquen is the Indigenous Taíno name for the island of Puerto Rico, meaning "land of the valiant lords" in the Taíno language. It is a term that is used to honor the island's Indigenous heritage and history.

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