Gave the world reggae, ska and dub, and the Blue Mountains produce one of the most expensive coffees anywhere.
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Jamaica
Jamaica
North America
ยท Caribbean
0Population
10.99Kkmยฒ of land
$5.58KGDP / person
KingstonCapital
- ISO codes
- JM ยท JAM
- Density
- 268 /kmยฒ
- Languages
- English, Jamaican Patois
- Currency
- Jamaican dollar (JMD)
- Dial code
- +1876
- Internet domain
- .jm
- Time zones
- 1
- Coastline
- Has a coast
- Map centre
- 18.1370ยฐ N, 77.3190ยฐ W
- Demonym
- Jamaican
- UN region
- Americas ยท Caribbean
- Economy
- Developing region
- Income group
- Upper middle income
- Total GDP
- $16.46B
- Sovereignty
- Independent ยท UN member
- Borders
- None
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By the numbers
How Jamaica stacks up against all 242 mapped countries.
Population
139th
of 242 ยท 0.04% of world population
Land area
165th
of 242 ยท 0.01% of world land
GDP per person
139th
richest of 242 by output per person
Population density
49th
most crowded of 242
Ten facts about Jamaica
The first is hand-written; the rest are worked out from this country's own figures.
Population is about 2,948,279 people, the 139th largest of the 242 countries mapped here - roughly one in 2,604 of everyone alive.
Covers 10,991 kmยฒ, making it the 165th largest country here - about 4.3 times the size of Luxembourg.
Population density is about 268 people per kmยฒ.
The capital is Kingston, at 17.98ยฐ N, 76.77ยฐ W, with a metropolitan population of about 937,700.
Has no land neighbours - it is an island nation, surrounded entirely by water.
Has its own coastline and direct access to the open sea.
Keeps a single time zone, America/Jamaica.
The currency is the Jamaican dollar (JMD, symbol $).
Has 2 official languages: English and Jamaican Patois.
Local time
Live, from PHP's IANA database.
America/Jamaica
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Cities
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Kingston
Kingston
17.9771ยฐ N, 76.7674ยฐ W
937.7K