Country size comparison
compared to
Jamaica is about 11 times smaller than North Carolina.
North Carolina is approximately 126,161 sq km, while Jamaica is approximately 10,991 sq km, making Jamaica 8.71% the size of North Carolina. Meanwhile, the population of North Carolina is ~9.5 million people (6.7 million fewer people live in Jamaica).
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