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Jamaica is an island nation in the that attracts sunseekers for its laid-back beach culture, and music fans on the trail of Jamaica's most famous son, reggae legend Bob Marley.
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Essential Destinations

Top destinations include Kingston and Montego Bay.

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, the capital and largest city of Jamaica, is nestled on the southeastern coast of the island. Visitors often come to the birthplaces of reggae.

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, commonly referred to as MoBay, is the second largest city in the island nation Jamaica. It has a population of 428,000 people. is the capital of St.

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is a large coastal town in southern Jamaica in Saint Catherine, and a place of residence for people working in the neighbouring cities of and Spanish Town.

Destinations to Discover

Explore places such as Surrey County and Cornwall County.

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Surrey is the easternmost and the smallest by area of the three historic counties into which Jamaica is divided. It was created in 1758, and is divided into four parishes.

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Cornwall is the westernmost of the three historic counties into which Jamaica is divided. It is the least populated county of the country. It has no current-day administrative significance. It includes , the island's second largest city by area.

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Middlesex is the central of the three historic counties into which Jamaica is divided. It has no current-day administrative significance. It covers 5,041.9 km2 and has a population of 1,183,361 giving it the largest area and population of the three counties.

Jamaica

Latitude of center
18.14° or 18° 8′ 24″ north
Longitude of center
-77.267° or 77° 16′ 1″ west
Population
2,890,000
Area
10,991 km² (4,244 miles²)
Elevation
556 metres (1,824 feet)
Capital
Kingston
Currency
Dollar (JMD)
Phone code
.jm
Internet domain
+1-876
Open­Street­Map ID
node 424313591
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­country
Geo­Names ID
3489940
Wiki­data ID
Q766
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Satellite Map

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In Other Languages

From Abkhazian to Zulu—“Jamaica” goes by many names.
  • Abkhazian: “Иамаика”
  • Achinese: “Jamaika”
  • Afrikaans: “Jamaika”
  • Akan: “Gyameka”
  • Albanian: “Xhamajka”
  • Albanian: “Xhamajkë”
  • Amharic: “ጃማይካ”
  • Amis: “Jamaica”
  • Angika: “जमैका”
  • Arabic: “جامايكا”
  • Arabic: “جامايكي”
  • Arabic: “جاميكا”
  • Arabic: “جمايكا”
  • Aragonese: “Chamaica”
  • Armenian: “Ճամայկա”
  • Armenian: “Ջամայկա”
  • Arpitan: “J·amayica”
  • Arpitan: “Jamayica”
  • Assamese: “জামাইকা”
  • Asturian: “Commonwealth of Jamaica”
  • Asturian: “JA”
  • Asturian: “jm”
  • Asturian: “Xamaica”
  • Atayal: “Jamaica”
  • Aymara: “Xamayka”
  • Azerbaijani: “Yamayka”
  • Balinese: “Jamaika”
  • Bambara: “Jamaika”
  • Bambara: “Zamayiki”
  • Bashkir: “Ямайка”
  • Basque: “Jamaika”
  • Bavarian: “Jamaika”
  • Belarusian: “Ямайка”
  • Bengali: “জামাইকা”
  • Bengali: “জামায়িকা কমনওয়েলথ”
  • Bengali: “জ্যামাইকা”
  • Bengali: “জ্যামেকা”
  • Betawi: “Jamaika”
  • 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”
  • Cornish: “Jameka”
  • 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: “Jamaica”
  • Dzongkha: “ཇཱ་མཻ་ཀ”
  • Dzongkha: “རྒྱ་མའི་ཀ། Jamaica”
  • Eastern Mari: “Ямайка”
  • Eastern Mari: “Ямайке”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “جاميكا”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “چامايكا”
  • Erzya: “Ямайка”
  • Esperanto: “Jamajko”
  • Estonian: “Jamaica”
  • Ewe: “Dzamaika nutome”
  • Ewe: “Jamaica”
  • Extremaduran: “Jamaica”
  • Faroese: “Jamaika”
  • Faroese: “Jameika”
  • Fiji Hindi: “Jamaica”
  • Finnish: “Jamaika”
  • French: “Jamaique”
  • French: “Jamaïque”
  • French: “la Jamaïque”
  • Fulah: “Jamayka”
  • Gagauz: “Yamayka”
  • Galician: “Xamaica”
  • Ganda: “Jamayika”
  • Georgian: “იამაიკა”
  • German: “JA”
  • German: “Jamaika”
  • Ghanaian Pidgin English: “Jamaica”
  • Gilaki: “جامائيکا”
  • 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: “Jamaika”
  • Hawaiian: “Iāmaika”
  • Hawaiian: “Iāmeka”
  • Hebrew: “ג’מייקה”
  • Hebrew: “ג׳מייקה”
  • Hebrew: “גמייקה”
  • Hindi: “जमाइका”
  • Hindi: “जमैका राष्ट्रमंडल”
  • 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: “Jomieka”
  • Jamaican Creole English: “Jumieka”
  • Japanese: “ジャマイカ”
  • Javanese: “Jamaika”
  • Kabardian: “Ямайкэ”
  • Kabiyè: “Camayiki”
  • Kabyle: “Ǧamayka”
  • Kabyle: “Jamayka”
  • Kalaallisut: “Jamaica”
  • Kalmyk: “Җамайкудин Орн”
  • Kannada: “ಜಮೈಕ”
  • Kannada: “ಜಮೈಕಾ”
  • Kara-Kalpak: “Yamaika”
  • Kara-Kalpak: “Yamayka”
  • Kara-Kalpak: “Ямайка”
  • Karachay-Balkar: “Ямайка”
  • Kashmiri: “جَمایکا”
  • Kazakh: “Ямайка”
  • Khmer: “ហ្សាម៉ាអ៊ីក”
  • Kikuyu: “Jamaica”
  • Kikuyu: “Jamaika”
  • Kinaray-A: “Hamayka”
  • Kinyarwanda: “Jamayika”
  • Kirghiz: “Жамайка”
  • Kirghiz: “Ямайка”
  • Komering: “Jamaika”
  • Komi: “Ямайка”
  • Korean: “자메이카”
  • Korean: “져메이커”
  • Kurdish: “Camayka”
  • Kurdish: “Jamaîka”
  • Kurdish: “جامایکا”
  • Ladin: “Giamaica”
  • Ladino: “Jamaika”
  • 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: “Ġamajka”
  • Maltese: “il-Ġamajka”
  • Manipuri: “ꯖꯃꯥꯢꯀꯥ”
  • Manx: “Jamaicey”
  • Manx: “Jamaikey”
  • Manx: “y Jamaicey”
  • Manx: “Yn Jamaicey”
  • Manx: “yn Yamaicey”
  • Manx: “Yn Yamaicey”
  • Maori: “Hamaika”
  • Maori: “Hemeika”
  • Marathi: “जमैका”
  • Mazanderani: “جامائیکا”
  • Min Dong Chinese: “Jamaica”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Jamaica”
  • Minangkabau: “Jamaika”
  • Mingrelian: “იამაიკა”
  • Moksha: “Ямайка”
  • Mongolian: “Ямайк”
  • Mongolian: “Ямайка”
  • Moroccan Arabic: “جامايكا”
  • Nauru: “Djamaika”
  • Navajo: “Jaméíkʼa”
  • Nepali: “जमैका”
  • Newari: “जमैका”
  • North Ndebele: “Jamaica”
  • Northern Frisian: “Jamaika”
  • Northern Luri: “جامائیکا”
  • Northern Sami: “Jamaica”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Jamaica”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Jamaica”
  • Norwegian: “Jamaica”
  • Novial: “Jamaika”
  • Nupe-Nupe-Tako: “Jamaica”
  • 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: “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”
  • Standard Moroccan Tamazight: “ⵊⴰⵎⴰⵢⴽⴰ”
  • Sundanese: “Jamaika”
  • Swahili: “Jamaika”
  • Swati: “IJamayikha”
  • Swedish: “Jamaica”
  • Swedish: “Jamaika”
  • Swiss German: “Jamaika”
  • Tagalog: “Hamayka”
  • Tagalog: “Jamaica”
  • Tajik: “Ямайка”
  • Talysh: “Jamajka”
  • Talysh: “Yamayka”
  • Tamil: “யமேக்கா”
  • Tamil: “ஜமேக்கா”
  • Tamil: “ஜமைகா”
  • 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: “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”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Jamaica”
  • 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: “דזשאמייקע”
  • Yiddish: “דזשאַמייקע”
  • Yoruba: “Jamaika”
  • Yoruba: “Jamáíkà”
  • Yue Chinese: “牙買加”
  • Zeeuws: “Jamaica”
  • Zhuang: “Jamaica”
  • Zulu: “i-Jamaica”
  • Zulu: “I-Jamaica”
  • “JAM”
  • “Jamaica”
  • “Jamaika”
  • “JM”
  • “ma Sameka”
  • “जमैका”

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