Country size comparison
compared to
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).
This to-scale comparison of
South Africa
vs.
Jamaica
uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.
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