Country size comparison

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Jamaica is about 12 times smaller than Nicaragua.

Nicaragua is approximately 130,370 sq km, while Jamaica is approximately 10,991 sq km, making Jamaica 8.43% the size of Nicaragua. Meanwhile, the population of Nicaragua is ~6.3 million people (3.5 million fewer people live in Jamaica).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Nicaragua vs. Jamaica uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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