Country size comparison

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Jamaica is about 111 times smaller than South Africa.

South Africa is approximately 1,219,090 sq km, while Jamaica is approximately 10,991 sq km, making Jamaica 0.9% the size of South Africa. Meanwhile, the population of South Africa is ~57.5 million people (54.7 million fewer people live in Jamaica).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of South Africa vs. Jamaica uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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