Despite its vast population, it is 38th in the international league table of countries sending students to the UK, below much smaller countries such as Kuwait and Jordan.

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Sassuolo (population 41, 000) is one point clear at the top of the table in the second tier of Italian soccer.

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"Jamaica is now ranked number one in the medal table and that's not bad for a country with a population around the same size as that of the west Midlands, " said the BBC's Nick Davis in Kingston, Jamaica.

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