Jamaica
Jamaica is an island nation in the Caribbean that attracts sunseekers for its laid-back beach culture, gourmands for its delicious cuisine, and music fans on the trail of Jamaica's most famous son, reggae legend Bob Marley.Photo: NASA, Public domain.
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Popular Destinations
Kingston
Photo: yonolatengo, CC BY 2.0.
Kingston, the capital and largest city of Jamaica, is nestled on the southeastern coast of the island.
Montego Bay
Photo: Trevor Cameron, CC BY 2.0.
Montego Bay, commonly referred to as MoBay, is the second largest city in the island nation Jamaica.
Portmore
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Portmore is a large coastal town in southern Jamaica in Saint Catherine, and a dormitory town for the neighbouring city of Kingston and Spanish Town.
Destinations
Surrey County
Photo: James Hakewill, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Surrey is the easternmost and the smallest by area of the three historic counties into which Jamaica is divided.
Cornwall County
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Cornwall is the westernmost of the three historic counties into which Jamaica is divided.
Middlesex County
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Middlesex is the central of the three historic counties into which Jamaica is divided.
Jamaica
- Type: Country with 2,890,000 residents
- Description: country in the Caribbean Sea
- Language: English
- Neighbors: United Kingdom
- Categories: Commonwealth realm, territorial evolution of the British Empire, island country, sovereign state, archipelagic state and locality
- Location: Caribbean, North America
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude of center
18.14° or 18° 8' 24" northLongitude of center
-77.267° or 77° 16' 1" westPopulation
2,890,000Area
10,991 km² (4,244 miles²)Elevation
556 metres (1,824 feet)Capital
KingstonCurrency
Dollar (JMD)Phone code
.jmInternet domain
+1-876OpenStreetMap ID
node 424313591OpenStreetMap Feature
place=countryGeoNames ID
3489940Wikidata ID
Q766Jamaica Satellite Map
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Also Known As
- Abkhazian: Ǧamayka
- Abkhazian: Иамаика
- Achinese: Jamaika
- Afar: Yamayka
- Afrikaans: Jamaika
- Akan: Gyameka
- Akan: Jamaica
- Albanian: Xhamajka
- Albanian: Xhamajkë
- Amharic: Jamaica
- Amharic: ጃማይካ
- Amis: Jamaica
- Angika: जमैका
- Arabic: Jamaica
- Arabic: جامايكا
- Arabic: جامايكي
- Arabic: جاميكا
- Arabic: جمايكا
- Aragonese: Chamaica
- Armenian: Ճամայկա
- Armenian: Ճամայքա
- Armenian: Ջամայկա
- Arpitan: J·amayica
- Assamese: জামাইকা
- Asturian: Commonwealth of Jamaica
- Asturian: JA
- Asturian: Xamaica
- Asturian: jm
- Atayal: Jamaica
- Aymara: Xamayka
- Azerbaijani: Yamayka
- Balinese: Jamaika
- Bambara: Jamaika
- Bambara: Zamayiki
- Bashkir: Ямайка
- Basque: Jamaika
- Bavarian: Jamaika
- Belarusian: Ямайка
- Bengali: জামাইকা
- Bengali: জ্যামাইকা
- Bengali: জ্যামেকা
- Bhojpuri: जमैका
- Bishnupriya: জামাইকা
- Bislama: Jamaika
- Bosnian: Jamajka
- Breton: Jamaika
- Bulgarian: Ямайка
- Burmese: ဂျမေကာ
- Burmese: ဂျမေကာနိုင်ငံ
- Burmese: ဂျမေနီကာ
- Capiznon: Hamayka
- Catalan: Jamaica
- Cebuano: Hamayka
- Cebuano: Jamayka
- Central Bikol: Hamayka
- Central Bikol: Yamaika
- Central Kurdish: جامایکا
- Chavacano: Jamaica
- Chechen: Ямайка
- Cherokee: ᏣᎺᎢᎧ
- Chinese: Jamaica
- Chinese: 牙买加
- Chinese: 牙買加
- Chuvash: Ямайка
- Cornish: Jamayka
- Corsican: Giamaica
- Crimean Tatar: Camayka
- Croatian: Jamajka
- Czech: Jamajka
- Dagbani: Jamaica
- Danish: Jamaica
- Dhivehi: ޖެމެއިކާ
- Dimli (individual language): Camayka
- Dimli (individual language): Cameika
- Dotyali: जमैका
- Dutch: JAM
- Dutch: JM
- Dutch: Jamaica
- Dzongkha: ཇཱ་མཻ་ཀ
- Eastern Mari: Ямайка
- Eastern Mari: Ямайке
- Egyptian Arabic: جاميكا
- Egyptian Arabic: چامايكا
- English: Commonwealth of Jamaica
- English: JA
- English: JAM
- English: JM
- Erzya: Ямайка
- Esperanto: Jamajko
- Estonian: Jamaica
- Ewe: Dzamaika nutome
- Ewe: Jamaica
- Extremaduran: Jamaica
- Faroese: Jamaika
- Faroese: Jameika
- Fiji Hindi: Jamaica
- Finnish: Jamaika
- French: JM
- French: Jamaique
- French: Jamaïque
- French: la Jamaïque
- Fulah: Jamayka
- Gagauz: Yamayka
- Galician: Xamaica
- Ganda: Jamayika
- Georgian: იამაიკა
- German: Jamaika
- Ghanaian Pidgin English: Jamaica
- Goan Konkani: Jamaica
- Goan Konkani: जमैका
- Greek: Τζαμάικα
- Guarani: Hamáika
- Guianese Creole French: Janmayk
- Gujarati: જમૈકા
- Haitian: Jamayik
- Hakka Chinese: Jamaica
- Hakka Chinese: Ngà-mâi-kâ
- Hausa: Jamaica
- Hausa: Jamaika
- Hawaiian: Iamaika
- Hebrew: ג'מייקה
- Hebrew: גמייקה
- Hebrew: ג׳מייקה
- Hindi: जमाइका
- Hindi: जमैका
- Hungarian: Jamaica
- Icelandic: Jamaíka
- Ido: Jamaika
- Igbo: Jamaika
- Igbo: Jamaikạ
- Iloko: Hamaika
- Inari Sami: Jamaika
- Indonesian: Jamaika
- Interlingua: Jamaica
- Interlingue: Jamaica
- Inuktitut: ᔭᒪᐃᑲ
- Irish: Iamáice
- Italian: Giamaica
- Jamaican Creole English: Jamieka
- Jamaican Creole English: Jumieka
- Japanese: ジャマイカ
- Javanese: Jamaika
- Kabardian: Ямайкэ
- Kabiyè: Camayiki
- Kabyle: Jamayka
- Kabyle: Ǧamayka
- Kalaallisut: Jamaica
- Kalmyk: Җамайкудин Орн
- Kannada: ಜಮೈಕ
- Kannada: ಜಮೈಕಾ
- Kara-Kalpak: JAM
- Kara-Kalpak: Yamaika
- Kara-Kalpak: Yamayka
- Kara-Kalpak: Ямайка
- Kashmiri: جَمایکا
- Kazakh: Ямайка
- Khmer: ហ្សាម៉ាអ៊ីក
- Kikuyu: Jamaica
- Kikuyu: Jamaika
- Kinaray-A: Hamayka
- Kinyarwanda: Jamayika
- Kirghiz: Ямайка
- Komi: Ямайка
- Korean: 자메이카
- Kurdish: Camayka
- Kurdish: Jamaîka
- Kurdish: جامایکا
- Ladin: Giamaica
- Ladino: Jamaika
- Lao: Hamaika
- Lao: ຈາໄມຄາ
- Latin: Iamaica
- Latvian: Jamaika
- Lezghian: Ямайка
- Ligurian: Giamaica
- Limburgan: Jamaica
- Lingala: Jamaike
- Lingala: Jamaïke
- Lingala: Zamaiki
- Lingua Franca Nova: Jamaica
- Literary Chinese: 牙買加
- Lithuanian: Jamaika
- Livvi: Jamaika
- Lojban: djamaikas
- Lombard: Giamaica
- Low German: Jamaika
- Lower Sorbian: Jamaika
- Luba-Katanga: Jamaiki
- Luxembourgish: Jamaika
- Macedonian: Јамајка
- Madurese: Jamaika
- Madurese: J̣âméika
- Malagasy: Jamaika
- Malagasy: Jamaîka
- Malagasy: Jamaïka
- Malay: Jamaica
- Malayalam: ജമൈക്ക
- Maltese: il-Ġamajka
- Maltese: Ġamajka
- Manipuri: ꯖꯃꯥꯢꯀꯥ
- Manx: Jamaicey
- Manx: Jamaikey
- Manx: Yn Jamaicey
- Manx: Yn Yamaicey
- Manx: y Jamaicey
- Manx: yn Yamaicey
- Maori: Hemeika
- Marathi: जमैका
- Mazanderani: جامائیکا
- Min Dong Chinese: Jamaica
- Min Nan Chinese: Jamaica
- Minangkabau: Jamaika
- Mingrelian: იამაიკა
- Moksha: Ямайка
- Mongolian: Ямайк
- Mongolian: Ямайка
- Mongolian: ꯖꯃꯥꯢꯀꯥ
- Moroccan Arabic: جامايكا
- Nauru: Djamaika
- Navajo: Jaméíkʼa
- Nepali: जमैका
- Newari: जमैका
- North Ndebele: Jamaica
- Northern Frisian: Jamaika
- Northern Luri: جامائیکا
- Northern Sami: Jamaica
- Norwegian: Jamaica
- Norwegian Bokmål: Jamaica
- Norwegian Nynorsk: Jamaica
- Novial: Jamaika
- Occitan (post 1500): Jamaica
- Old English (ca. 450-1100): Iamaica
- Oriya: ଜାମାଇକା
- Oromo: Jamaayikaa
- Ossetian: Ямайкæ
- Pali: जमैका
- Pampanga: Hamáika
- Pampanga: Jamaica
- Pangasinan: Hamayka
- Panjabi: ਜਮਾਇਕਾ
- Panjabi: ਜਮੇਕਾ
- Panjabi: ਜਮੈਕਾ
- Papiamento: Jamaica
- Pennsylvania German: Tschameeki
- Persian: جامائیکا
- Picard: Jamaïque
- Piemontese: Giamàica
- Pitcairn-Norfolk: Jamaeka
- Polish: Jamajka
- Pontic: Τζαμαίκαν
- Portuguese: JA
- Portuguese: JAM
- Portuguese: Jamaica
- Portuguese: jm
- Pushto: جمايکا
- Pushto: جمیکا
- Quechua: Jamaica
- Quechua: Shamayka
- Romanian: Jamaica
- Romansh: Giamaica
- Rundi: Jamayika
- Russia Buriat: Джамайка
- Russia Buriat: Ямайка
- Russian: Джамейка
- Russian: Ямайка
- Rusyn: Ямайка
- Sakizaya: Jamaica
- Samoan: Jamaica
- Samogitian: Jamaika
- Sango: Zamaîka
- Sanskrit: जमैका
- Santali: ᱡᱟᱢᱟᱭᱠᱟ
- Santali: ᱡᱟᱢᱟᱭᱤᱠᱟ
- Sardinian: Giamàica
- Scots: Jamaica
- Scots: Jamaicae
- Scottish Gaelic: Diameuga
- Scottish Gaelic: Iaimeuca
- Serbian: Jamajka
- Serbian: Јамајка
- Serbo-Croatian: Jamajka
- Shan: မိူင်းၵျႃႇမေႇၵႃႇ
- Shona: Jamaica
- Sicilian: Giamaica
- Silesian: Jamajka
- Sindhi: جميڪا
- Sinhala: ජැමෙයිකාව
- Skolt Sami: Jamaika
- Slovak: Jamajka
- Slovenian: Jamajka
- Somali: Jamaaika
- Somali: Jamayka
- South Azerbaijani: جامائیکا
- South Azerbaijani: جاماییکا
- Spanish: Jamaica
- Sranan Tongo: Jamaica
- Sundanese: Jamaika
- Swahili: Jamaika
- Swati: IJamayikha
- Swedish: Jamaica
- Swiss German: Jamaika
- Tagalog: Hamayka
- Tagalog: Jamaica
- Tajik: Ямайка
- Talysh: Yamayka
- Tamil: ஜமேக்கா
- Tamil: ஜமைகா
- Tamil: யமேக்கா
- Taroko: Jamaica
- Tatar: Ямайка
- Telugu: జమైకా
- Tetum: Jamaika
- Thai: จาเมกา
- Thai: ประเทศจาเมกา
- Tibetan: ཇ་མའི་ཀ
- Tibetan: ཛ་མེ་ཀ།
- Tigrinya: ጃማይካ
- Tonga (Tonga Islands): Samaika
- Tosk Albanian: Jamaika
- Tunisian Arabic: جامايك
- Turkish: Jamaika
- Turkmen: Ýamaýka
- Tyap: JA
- Tyap: JAM
- Tyap: Ja̱ma̱ika
- Udmurt: Ямайка
- Uighur: يامايكا
- Ukrainian: Ямайка
- Upper Sorbian: Jamaika
- Urdu: جمائیکا
- Urdu: جمیکا
- Uzbek: Yamayka
- Venetian: Giamaica
- Venetian: Zamàega
- Veps: Jamaik
- Vietnamese: Jamaica
- Vlax Romani: Jamaica
- Volapük: Camekeän
- Võro: Jamaica
- Waray (Philippines): Hamayka
- Welsh: Jamaica
- Welsh: Siamaica
- Western Armenian: Ճամայքա
- Western Frisian: Jamaica
- Western Frisian: Jamaika
- Western Mari: Ямайка
- Western Panjabi: جمیکا
- Wolof: Jamayka
- Wolof: Samayig
- Wu Chinese: 牙买加
- Yakut: Дьамайка
- Yiddish: דזשאַמייקע
- Yiddish: דזשאמייקע
- Yoruba: Jamaika
- Yoruba: Jamáíkà
- Yue Chinese: 牙買加
- Zeeuws: Jamaica
- Zhuang: Jamaica
- Zulu: I-Jamaica
- Zulu: i-Jamaica
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