Jamaica vs Russia

Russia is 1556 times larger than Jamaica — 17,098,242 against 10,991 km². Russia is 51 times more populous than Jamaica — 143,513,328 against 2,837,077 people.

Side by side

Population density

Jamaica is 31 times more densely populated than Russia — 258 against 8 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, Russia on the right.
• Different currencies: the Jamaican dollar and the Russian ruble.
• Russia spans 11 time zones, so "local time" there is not a single answer.
• Different continents — North America and Europe.

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.

Russia

The largest country in the world by land area, close to twice the size of the next one, and it spans eleven time zones. Lake Baikal in Siberia is the deepest lake on Earth at 1,642 m and holds roughly a fifth of the world's unfrozen fresh water — more than all five North American Great Lakes combined. Russia and China each border fourteen countries, more than any other state.

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.