Country size comparison
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Jamaica is about 42 times smaller than Papua New Guinea.
Papua New Guinea is approximately 462,840 sq km, while Jamaica is approximately 10,991 sq km, making Jamaica 2.37% the size of Papua New Guinea. Meanwhile, the population of Papua New Guinea is ~10.8 million people (7.9 million fewer people live in Jamaica).
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