Country size comparison

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Jamaica is about 17 times smaller than Syria.

Syria is approximately 187,437 sq km, while Jamaica is approximately 10,991 sq km, making Jamaica 5.86% the size of Syria. Meanwhile, the population of Syria is ~25.6 million people (22.8 million fewer people live in Jamaica).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Syria vs. Jamaica uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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