Country size comparison

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Jamaica is about 22 times smaller than Laos.

Laos is approximately 236,800 sq km, while Jamaica is approximately 10,991 sq km, making Jamaica 4.64% the size of Laos. Meanwhile, the population of Laos is ~7.9 million people (5.0 million fewer people live in Jamaica).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Laos vs. Jamaica uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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