Country size comparison

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Jamaica is about 11 times smaller than Eritrea.

Eritrea is approximately 117,600 sq km, while Jamaica is approximately 10,991 sq km, making Jamaica 9.35% the size of Eritrea. Meanwhile, the population of Eritrea is ~6.2 million people (3.4 million fewer people live in Jamaica).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Eritrea vs. Jamaica uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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