Country size comparison

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Jamaica is about 13 times smaller than Illinois.

Illinois is approximately 143,961 sq km, while Jamaica is approximately 10,991 sq km, making Jamaica 7.63% the size of Illinois. Meanwhile, the population of Illinois is ~12.8 million people (10.0 million fewer people live in Jamaica).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Illinois vs. Jamaica uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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