Kingston

Kingston, the capital and largest city of , is nestled on the southeastern coast of the island. Visitors often come to the birthplaces of reggae.
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  • Type: City with 660,000 residents
  • Description: capital of Jamaica
  • Also known as: “Kingston, Jamaica” and “Kingston, Surrey”
  • Neighbors:
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Places of Interest

Highlights include Sabina Park and National Library of Jamaica.

Stadium
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is a cricket in Kingston, Jamaica. It is the home of the Jamaica cricket team and is the only Test cricket ground in Jamaica.

Library
The is the national library of . It is located at 12 East Street in Kingston, . The library provides access to various collection of Jamaican literature, maps, films, newspapers, photographs, and more.

Park
is a botanical garden in Kingston, Jamaica. The largest open space in Kingston at 20 hectares in size, features numerous monuments; it is the burial site of many of Jamaica's national heroes, prime ministers and cultural leaders.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Trenchtown and Tivoli Gardens.

Neighborhood
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Trench Town is a neighbourhood located in the parish of , part of which is in Kingston, the capital and largest city of . Today Trench Town is the location of the Trench Town Culture Yard Museum, a National Heritage Site presenting the unique history and contribution of Trench Town to Jamaica.

Neighborhood
is a in Kingston, Jamaica. Developed as a renewal project between 1963 and 1965, the neighbourhood continued to suffer from poverty.

Neighborhood
is a predominantly residential neighbourhood in western Kingston, . It has a reputation as one of Kingston's more violent areas. It was named in memory of Edward Brandis Denham, Governor of Jamaica 1935–1938.

Kingston

Latitude
17.9712° or 17° 58′ 16″ north
Longitude
-76.7928° or 76° 47′ 34″ west
Population
660,000
Elevation
65 metres (213 feet)
IATA airport code
KIN
United Nations Location Code
JM KIN
Open location code
7795X6C4+FV
Open­Street­Map ID
node 53371112
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
3489854
Wiki­data ID
Q34692
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Satellite Map

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In Other Languages

From Afrikaans to Zulu—“Kingston” goes by many names.
  • Afrikaans: “Kingston, Jamaika”
  • Afrikaans: “Kingston”
  • Albanian: “Kingston”
  • Amharic: “ኪንግስተን ጃማይካ”
  • Amharic: “ኪንግስተን”
  • Amharic: “ኪንግስቶን”
  • Arabic: “كينغستون”
  • Aragonese: “Kingston”
  • Armenian: “Կինգստոն”
  • Armenian: “Քինգսթոն”
  • Armenian: “Քինգստոն”
  • Asturian: “Kingston”
  • Azerbaijani: “Kinqston”
  • Balinese: “Kingston, Jamaika”
  • Balinese: “Kingston”
  • Basque: “Kingston”
  • Belarusian: “Кінгстан”
  • Bengali: “কিংস্টন”
  • Bosnian: “Kingston”
  • Breton: “Kingston”
  • Bulgarian: “Кингстън”
  • Burmese: “ကင်းစတန်မြို့၊ ဂျမေကာ”
  • Burmese: “ကင်းစတန်မြို့၊”
  • Catalan: “Kingston”
  • Cebuano: “Kingston”
  • Central Kanuri: “Kingston, Jamaica”
  • Chechen: “Кингстон”
  • Chinese: “Kingston”
  • Chinese: “京士頓”
  • Chinese: “京斯敦”
  • Chinese: “京斯顿”
  • Chinese: “金斯敦”
  • Chinese: “金斯顿”
  • Chuvash: “Кингстон”
  • Cornish: “Kingston”
  • Croatian: “Kingston”
  • Czech: “Kingston”
  • Danish: “Kingston”
  • Dutch: “Kingston”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “كينجستون”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “مدينه كينجستون, جامايكا”
  • Esperanto: “Kingstono”
  • Estonian: “Kingston”
  • Extremaduran: “Kingston”
  • Faroese: “Kingston”
  • Faroese: “Kingstone”
  • Fiji Hindi: “Kingston”
  • Finnish: “Kingston”
  • French: “Kingston”
  • French: “Tinson”
  • Galician: “Kingston”
  • Georgian: “კინგსტონი”
  • German: “Chaka Demus”
  • German: “Kingston”
  • Greek: “Κίνγκστον”
  • Guarani: “Kingston”
  • Gujarati: “કિંગ્સટન”
  • Haitian: “Kinstòn”
  • Hakka Chinese: “Kingston”
  • Hausa: “Kingston, Jamaica”
  • Hausa: “Kingston”
  • Hebrew: “קינגסטון”
  • Hindi: “किंग्सटन, जमैका”
  • Hindi: “किंग्सटन”
  • Hindi: “किंग्स्टन”
  • Hungarian: “Kingston”
  • Icelandic: “Kingston”
  • Ido: “Kingston”
  • Igbo: “Kingston”
  • Inari Sami: “Kingston”
  • Indonesian: “Kingston, Jamaika”
  • Indonesian: “Kingston”
  • Interlingua: “Kingston”
  • Interlingue: “Kingston”
  • Irish: “Kingston, Iamáice”
  • Irish: “Kingston”
  • Italian: “Kingston”
  • Jamaican Creole English: “Kinston, Jumieka”
  • Jamaican Creole English: “Kinston”
  • Japanese: “キングストン”
  • Kabyle: “Kingston”
  • Kannada: “ಕಿಂಗ್‌ಸ್ಟನ್”
  • Karachay-Balkar: “Кингстон”
  • Kazakh: “Кингстон қаласы”
  • Kazakh: “Кингстон”
  • Kinyarwanda: “Kingston”
  • Kirghiz: “Кингстон”
  • Komering: “Kingston, Jamaika”
  • Korean: “킹스턴”
  • Kotava: “Kingston”
  • Kurdish: “Kingston”
  • Latin: “Kingston”
  • Latin: “Regiopolis”
  • Latvian: “Kingstona”
  • Ligurian: “Kingston”
  • Lingua Franca Nova: “Kingston”
  • Lithuanian: “Kingstonas”
  • Livvi: “Kingston”
  • Lombard: “Kingston”
  • Low German: “Kingston”
  • Luxembourgish: “Kingston (Jamaika)”
  • Luxembourgish: “Kingston”
  • Macedonian: “Кингстон”
  • Malay: “Kingston, Jamaica”
  • Malay: “Kingston”
  • Malayalam: “കിങ്സ്റ്റൺ”
  • Maltese: “Kingston (Ġamajka)”
  • Maltese: “Kingston”
  • Marathi: “किंगस्टन”
  • Marathi: “किंग्सटन”
  • Marathi: “किंग्स्टन”
  • Min Dong Chinese: “Kingston”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Kingston”
  • Minangkabau: “Kingston, Jamaika”
  • Mingrelian: “კინგსტონი”
  • Moksha: “Кингстон, Ямайка”
  • Moksha: “Кингстон”
  • Mongolian: “Кингстон”
  • Moroccan Arabic: “كينڭسطون”
  • Moroccan Arabic: “كينݣسطون”
  • Mossi: “Kingston, Jamaica”
  • Mossi: “Kingston”
  • Nepali: “किङ्स्टन”
  • Northern Frisian: “Kingston”
  • Northern Luri: “کینگستون”
  • Northern Sami: “Kingston”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Kingston”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Kingston på Jamaica”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Kingston”
  • Norwegian: “Kingston”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Kingston”
  • Old English (ca. 450-1100): “Cyningestūn, Iamaica”
  • Old English (ca. 450-1100): “Cyninȝestūn”
  • Oriya: “କିଙ୍ଗଷ୍ଟନ”
  • Ossetian: “Кингстон”
  • Panjabi: “ਕਿੰਗਸਟਨ, ਜਮੈਕਾ”
  • Papiamento: “Kingston”
  • Persian: “کینگستون”
  • Piemontese: “Kingston”
  • Pitcairn-Norfolk: “Kingston”
  • Polish: “Kingston”
  • Polish: “Kingstone”
  • Portuguese: “Capital de Jamaica”
  • Portuguese: “Kingston”
  • Pushto: “کینګستون”
  • Quechua: “Kingston”
  • Romanian: “Kingston, Jamaica”
  • Romanian: “Kingston”
  • Russian: “Кингстон (Ямайка)”
  • Russian: “Кингстон”
  • Russian: “Столица Ямайки”
  • Rusyn: “Кингстон”
  • Sardinian: “Kingston”
  • Scots: “Kingston, Jamaica”
  • Scots: “Kingston”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “Kingston, Iaimeuca”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “Kingston”
  • Serbian: “Кингстон”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Kingston”
  • Shona: “Kingston”
  • Sicilian: “Kingston”
  • Silesian: “Kingston”
  • Sindhi: “ڪنگسٽن، جميڪا”
  • Sinhala: “කිංග්ස්ටන්”
  • Sinhala: “කින්ග්ස්ටනය”
  • Skolt Sami: “Kingston”
  • Slovak: “Kingston”
  • Slovenian: “Kingston, Jamajka”
  • Slovenian: “Kingston”
  • Spanish: “Kingston Jamaica”
  • Spanish: “Kingston”
  • Sranan Tongo: “Kingston”
  • Swahili: “Kingston”
  • Swedish: “Kingston”
  • Swiss German: “Kingston”
  • Tagalog: “Kingston, Jamaica”
  • Tagalog: “Kingston”
  • Tajik: “Кингстаун”
  • Tajik: “Кингстон”
  • Talysh: “Kingston”
  • Talysh: “Kinqston”
  • Tamil: “கிங்க்ஸ்டன், ஜமைக்கா”
  • Tamil: “கிங்ஸ்டன், யமைக்கா”
  • Tamil: “கிங்ஸ்டன்”
  • Telugu: “కింగ్స్టన్”
  • Thai: “Kingston”
  • Thai: “คิงสตัน”
  • Thai: “คิงส์ตัน”
  • Tibetan: “ཁིང་སི་ཐོན།”
  • Turkish: “Kingston, Jamaika”
  • Turkish: “Kingston”
  • Turkmen: “Kingston”
  • Udmurt: “Кингстон”
  • Ukrainian: “Кінгстон”
  • Ukrainian: “Кінґстон”
  • Urdu: “کنگسٹن، جمیکا”
  • Urdu: “کنگسٹن”
  • Uzbek: “Kingston”
  • Venetian: “Kingston”
  • Veps: “Kingston”
  • Vietnamese: “Kingston, Jamaica”
  • Vietnamese: “Kingston”
  • Volapük: “Kingston”
  • Walloon: “Kingston”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Kingston, Jamaica”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Kingston”
  • Welsh: “Kingston”
  • Western Armenian: “Քինկսթըն”
  • Western Frisian: “Kingston”
  • Western Panjabi: “کنگسٹن، جمیکا”
  • Western Panjabi: “کنگسٹن”
  • Wu Chinese: “金斯敦”
  • Yakut: “Киҥстон”
  • Yoruba: “Kingston”
  • Yue Chinese: “京士頓”
  • Zulu: “i-Kingston”
  • “Kingston”

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