Jamaica vs Mexico

Mexico is 179 times larger than Jamaica — 1,964,375 against 10,991 km². Mexico is 47 times more populous than Jamaica — 131,946,900 against 2,837,077 people.

Side by side

Population density

Jamaica is 3.8 times more densely populated than Mexico — 258 against 67 people per km². Density is where area and population interact, and it often reverses the impression the headline figures give — a large country with a small population can feel emptier than a small crowded one by an enormous margin.

Practical differences

• They drive on opposite sides — Jamaica on the left, Mexico on the right.
• Different currencies: the Jamaican dollar and the Mexican peso.
• Mexico spans 4 time zones, so "local time" there is not a single answer.

Jamaica

The Blue Mountains rise to 2,256 m within about 15 km of the coast, so the island is far steeper than its size suggests. Cockpit Country in the west is a karst landscape of conical hills and sinkholes, largely trackless, and holds most of Jamaica's endemic plants. The island is about 235 km long and 82 km at its widest.

Mexico

Mexico has the fourth-highest count of vertebrate and plant species of any country, and more reptile species than anywhere else. Chicxulub, under the northern Yucatán, is the roughly 180 km crater left by the asteroid impact 66 million years ago. The Sistema Sac Actun beneath the same peninsula is the longest known underwater cave system in the world, over 370 km surveyed.

Neutral facts only. Nothing here addresses politics, government, economics or which country is preferable in any respect — population is the one figure that dates, and it carries its year.