Jamaica
Jamaica is a country in Caribbean, with its capital at Kingston, and is home to roughly 2.8M people.
Its official languages are English, Jamaican Patois; the currency in circulation is Jamaican dollar ($); people from here are called Jamaican.
- »Jamaica gave the world reggae, ska and dub.
Jamaica shares no land border with anything, so every approach is by sea or air. The closest other territories on file are Cuba (422 km), Haiti (497 km) and Dominican Republic (723 km), measured centre to centre.
Kingston became capital in 1872 after the earlier capital, Spanish Town, lost influence. It has the seventh-largest natural harbour in the world.
11,051 km² (4,267 sq mi), 161st largest of 198 countries and territories on file, almost exactly the size of Qatar.
Population 2,839,175, 139th of 198 on file. That averages 257 per km² (665 per sq mi).
The only national flag containing neither red, white nor blue. Gold for sunlight and mineral wealth, green for the land, black for the strength of the people.