Jamaica ( jə-MAY -kə ; Jamaican Patois : Jumieka [dʒʌˈmie̯ka] ) is an island country in the Caribbean Sea and the West Indies . At 10,990 square kilometres (4,240 sq mi), it is the third largest island—after Cuba and Hispaniola —of the Greater Antilles and the Caribbean . Jamaica lies about 145 km (90 mi) south of Cuba, 191 km (119 mi) west of Hispaniola (the island containing Haiti and the Dominican Republic ), and 215 km (134 mi) south-east of the Cayman Islands (a British Overseas Territory ).
With 2.8 million people,0 Jamaica is the third most populous Anglophone country in the Americas (after the United States and Canada ), and the fourth most populous country in the Caribbean. Kingston is the country's capital and largest city. Most Jamaicans are of Sub-Saharan African ancestry, with significant European , East Asian (primarily Chinese ), Indian , Lebanese , and mixed-race minorities. Because of a high rate of emigration for work since the 1960s, there is a large Jamaican diaspora , particularly in Canada, the United Kingdom, and the United States. The country has a global influence that belies its small size; it was the birthplace of the Rastafari religion, reggae music (and such associated genres as dub , ska and dancehall ), and it is internationally prominent in sports, including cricket , sprinting , and athletics . Jamaica has sometimes been considered the world's least populous cultural superpower . (Full article... )
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Image 1 Easter Rebellion memorial 20231007 Claude Stuart Park (from
History of Jamaica )
Image 2 Fort Haldane, Jamaica heritage trail, (from
History of Jamaica )
Image 3 Dujo , a wooden chair crafted by Taínos. (from
History of Jamaica )
Image 5 Fort Haldane Turntable Cannon 20231007 (from
History of Jamaica )
Image 7 English map from the 1600s (from
History of Jamaica )
Image 8 An illustration of pre-1692 Port Royal (from
History of Jamaica )
Image 9 Cassava (
yuca ) roots, the Taínos' main crop (from
History of Jamaica )
Image 10 Reconstruction of a Taíno village in Cuba (from
History of Jamaica )
Image 11 Leonard Parkinson, Maroon Leader, 1796 (from
History of Jamaica )
Image 13 Sugar cane cutters in Jamaica, 1891 (from
History of Jamaica )
Image 14 1866 lithography by French cartoonist
Honoré Daumier showing British Governor
John Peter Grant establishing his authority following the
Morant Bay Rebellion (from
History of Jamaica )
Image 15 Sugar cane cutters in Jamaica, 1880 (from
History of Jamaica )
Image 16 The Genoan20231003 115238 (from
History of Jamaica )
Image 17 A
Rastafarian man in a
rastacap at a port of Jamaica's
Black River . (from
Culture of Jamaica )
Image 18 European colonies in the 18th-century Caribbean (from
History of Jamaica )
Image 19 Port Maria Harbor, St Mary Parish (from
History of Jamaica )
Image 20 Michael Manley , Prime Minister of Jamaica from 1972 to 1980 and from 1989 to 1992 (from
History of Jamaica )
Portrait of Francis Williams, a Jamaican writer and teacher. Painted around 1740. Artist unknown. Portrait of
Francis Williams , a Jamaican writer and teacher. Painted around 1740.
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Clarendon Halse Hall Great House Mason River Botanical Station May Pen Clock Tower Milk River Spa St. Peter's Church, Alley Hanover Barbican Estate Tamarind Lodge Old Hanover Gaol, Lucea Old Police Barracks, Lucea Tryall Great House Tryall sugar works (ruins) Fort Charlotte, Lucea Blenheim Kingston
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Manchester Portland Buff Bay Court House Cenotaph, Port Antonio Christ Church Anglican, Port Antonio DeMontevin Lodge Fort George Old Military Barracks, Titchfield Orange Bay railway station Port Antonio Court House Port Antonio railway station Titchfield Peninsula St Andrew St Ann 32 Market Street, St. Ann's Bay Bellevue Great House, Orange Hall Cave Valley Chimney Edinburgh Castle Iolaus MCC Moneague Hotel Moneague Inn Mount Plenty Great House, Orange Hall Our Lady of Perpetual Help Church, St. Ann's Bay Seville Great House St. Peter Martyr (ruin), St. Ann's Bay St Catherine Altenheim House, Spanish Town Bushy Park Aqueduct Cathedral of St. Jago de la Vega Colbeck Castle (ruin) Flat Bridge Highgate House, Sligoville Mountain River Cave, Cudjoe Hill Old Harbour railway station Phillippo Baptist Church, Spanish Town Port Henderson Spanish Town Cathedral Spanish Town Historic District Spanish Town railway station St. Dorothy's Anglican Church Two Sisters Caves, Hellshire Whitemarl Arawak Museum St Elizabeth St James Anchovy railway station Barnett Street Police Station, Montego Bay Cambridge railway station Cinnamon Hill Great House Greenwood Great House Grove Hill House, Montego Bay Harrison House, Montego Bay Montpelier railway station No. 1 King Street, Montego Bay No. 2 Orange Street, Montego Bay No. 6 Corner Lane, Montego Bay Roehampton Great House Rose Hall Great House Town House, Montego Bay Salter's Hill Baptist Church (ruin) St. Mary's Anglican Church, Montpelier Old Court House, Montego Bay Sam Sharpe Monument Ironshore Windmill Tower Old Albert Market, Montego Bay Old Slave Ring, Montego Bay The Dome, Montego Bay St Mary Claude Stuart Park Firefly Hill Fort Haldane Harmony Hall Great House Old Court House, Port Maria Rio Nuevo Battle Site Wentworth Estate St Thomas Bath Botanical Gardens Bath Fountain Spa Christ Church, Morant Bay Morant Bay Court House Orange Park Paul Bogle statue Stony Gut Trelawny Barrett House (ruin), Falmouth Carlton House Duncans Clock Tower Falmouth Courthouse Falmouth Post Office Falmouth Historic District Fort Balcarres, Falmouth Hyde Hall Great House St. Peter's Anglican Church, Falmouth Stewart Castle (ruin) Vale Royal Great House Westmoreland Cast Iron Fountain Savanna-la-mar Fort Thomas Manning Building Underwater
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Passenger lines Stations List of railway stations in Jamaica Ailford's halt Albany Anchovy Angels halt Annotto Bay Appleton Appleton Tourist halt Balaclava Baughs halt Belfield halt Bog Walk Breadnut Walk halt Bryan's Hill Buff Bay Bushy Park halt Cambridge Catadupa Chapelton Clarendon Park Comfort Hall halt Crawle halt Crescent halt Crooked River Cross Roads/Ivy Store Darling Spring halt Duck Pond halt Esher Ewarton Fort George halt Fort Stewart halt Four Paths Frankfield Gordon’s halt Grange Lane Grays Inn halt Greenvale Greenwich Town halt Gregory Park Grove Place halt Harewood halt Hartlands halt Highgate Hope Bay Horizon Park halt Hunts Bay halt Ipswich Jacob’s Hut Kendal Kingston Linstead Longville halt Maggotty Marcus Garvey Drive halt May Pen Michleton halt Montego Bay Montpelier Morgans New Works Norwich halt Old Harbour Orange Bay Oxford halt Passley Gardens halt Port Antonio Porus Richmond Riversdale Robertson's halt Rock halt Saint Margaret's Bay Scott's Pass halt Siloah halt Snow Hill halt Spanish Town Spring Garden halt St. John's Road halt Sterling Castle halt Stonehenge Suttons Taja halt Troja Trout Hall Williamsfield Windsor Castle halt Other infrastructure Bauxite lines Alcan Bodies to Port Esquiville (Alcan) Woodside mines to Rocky Point Port (Alcoa) Nain to Port Kaiser (Alpart) Upper Saint Ann to Discovery Bay (Kaiser) (Reynolds) Estate lines Appleton (sugar) Bowden (bananas) Military lines Logans Junction to Fort Simmonds Notable personnel H R Fox David Smith (railway promoter) William Smith (railway promoter) Notable incidents
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Anglican Baptist Brethren Church of God (Anderson, Indiana) Jehovah's Witness Methodist Moravian Church of God (Cleveland, Tennessee) Pentecostal Seventh-day Adventist United Church
Schools in Jamaica
Primary Preparatory Primary and junior high Secondary high Technical high Dinthill Dunoon Park Frome Herbert Morrison Holmwood Jose Marti Kingston Knockalva Marcus Garvey St Andrew St Elizabeth St Mary St Thomas Vere Agricultural high Private high International schools Former
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