Jamaica: Island sovereign state in the Caribbean Sea
Jamaica or Jamaicae (Jamaican Creole: Jumieka, ), is an island naition o the Greater Antilles, 234 kilometres (145 mi) in lenth an as muckle as 80 kilometres (50 mi) in width, an amoonts tae 10,990 square kilometres (4,243 sq mi).
It is situatit in the Caribbean Sea, aboot 145 kilometres (90 mi) sooth o Cuba, an 191 kilometres (119 mi) wast o Hispaniola, the island harborin the naition-states Haiti an the Dominican Republic. Its indigenous Arawakan-speakin Taíno indwallers named the island Xaymaca, meanin the "Land o Wood an Water", or the "Land o Springs".
Jamaica | |
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 Banner  Coat o airms | |
Motto: "Out of Many, One People" | |
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| Caipital | Kingston 17°59′N 76°48′W / 17.983°N 76.800°W |
| Lairgest ceety | capital |
| Offeecial leids | Inglis |
| Naitional leid | Jamaican Patois (de facto) |
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| Demonym(s) | Jamaican |
| Govrenment | Unitar pairlamentar representative democracy unner constitutional monarchy |
• Monarch | Charles III |
• Govrenor-General | Patrick Allen |
• Prime Meenister | Andrew Holness |
| Legislatur | Pairlament |
• Upper house | Senate |
• Lower house | Hoose o Representatives |
| Independence frae the United Kingdom | |
• Grantit | 6 August 1962 |
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• Total | 10,991 km2 (4,244 sq mi) (160th) |
• Water (%) | 1.5 |
| Population | |
• 2016 estimate | 2,881,355 (139t) |
• Density | 268/km2 (694.1/sq mi) (49t) |
| GDP (PPP) | 2017 estimate |
• Total | $26.446 billion (2017) |
• Per capita | $9,297 |
| GDP (nominal) | 2017 estimate |
• Tot | $14.556 billion |
• Per capita | $5,117 |
| Gini (2004) | 45.5 medium · 84t |
| HDI (2014) |  0.719heich · 99t |
| Currency | Jamaican dollar (JMD) |
| Time zone | UTC-5 |
| Drivin side | caur |
| Cawin code | +1-876 +1-658 (Owerlay o 876; active in November 2018) |
| ISO 3166 code | JM |
| Internet TLD | .jm |
Ance a Spaingie possession kent as Santiago, in 1655 it became an Inglis, an later a Breetish, colony, kent as "Jamaica". It achievit fou unthirldom in 1962. Wi 2.8 million fowk, it is the third maist populous anglophone kintra in Americas, efter the Unitit States an Canadae. It remains a Commonweel realm wi King Charles III as heid o state an Kingston is the kintra's lairgest ceety an the caipital.
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