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General information Jamaica
 
Country: Jamaica
Top-level domain (ccTLD): jm
Population: 2.780.132
Language: English, English patois
Currency: Jamaican dollar (JMD)
Telephone: +876
Area: 10.991 km2
Flag:
Flag explanation: diagonal yellow cross divides the flag into four triangles - green (top and bottom) and black (hoist side and outer side)
Located:
Continent: North-america

Jamaica is an island nation of the Greater Antilles, 234 kilometres (146 mi) in length and as much as 80 kilometres (50 mi) in width situated in the Caribbean Sea. It is about 620 kilometres (385 mi) northeast of the Central American mainland, 145 kilometres (90 mi) south of Cuba, and 190 kilometres (120 mi) west of the island of Hispaniola, on which Haiti and the Dominican Republic are situated. Its indigenous Arawakan-speaking Taíno inhabitants named the island Xaymaca, meaning either the "Land of Springs," or the "Land of Wood and Water". Formerly a Spanish possession known as Santiago, it later became the British West Indies Crown colony of Jamaica. It is the third most populous anglophone country in the Americas, after the United States and Canada.