Jamaica vs United States

United States is 895 times larger than Jamaica — 9,833,517 against 10,991 km². United States is 120 times more populous than Jamaica — 341,784,857 against 2,837,077 people.

Side by side

Population density

Jamaica is 7.4 times more densely populated than United States — 258 against 35 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, United States on the right.
• Different currencies: the Jamaican dollar and the United States dollar.
• United States spans 6 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.

United States

Third or fourth largest country in the world depending on how China's area is counted. It spans six standard time zones across the fifty states, from UTC-10 in Hawaii to UTC-5 on the east coast. Death Valley holds the highest reliably recorded air temperature on Earth, 56.7 °C in 1913, and is 86 m below sea level; Denali, 5,500 km away in Alaska, is 6,190 m.

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.