Jamaica

Jamaica

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Motto: "Out of Many, One People"
Offeecial leid	Inglis
Caipital (an lairgest ceety)	Kingston
Govrenment   - Queen - Govrenor-General - Prime meenister	Parliamentary democracy an constituitonal monarchy Elizabeth II Patrick Allen (Jamaican) Bruce Golding
Aurie  - Tot  - % watter	10,991 km²/4,244 sq mi 1.5%
Population  - 2009  -  census  - Density	2,847,232 252/km²
Foondin	30 November 1966
Siller	Jamaican dollar (JMD)
Time zone	EST (UTC-5) EDT (UTC-4)
Naitional anthem	"Jamaica, Land We Love"
Internet TLD	.jm
Cawin code	+1-876

Jamaica (pronounced /dʒəˈmeɪkə/ ( listen)) is an island naition o the Greater Antilles, 234 kilometres (145 mi) in length 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 inhabitants named the island Xaymaca, meanin the "Land o Wood an Water", or the "Land o Springs".

Ance a Spainyie 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 Queen Elizabeth II as heid o state an Kingston is the kintra's lairgest ceety an the caipital.

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