Introduction to Jamaica

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Capital	Kingston
Government	Constitutional monarchy and parliamentary democracy
Currency	Jamaican dollar (JMD)
Area	total: 10,991 km2 land: 10,831 km2 water: 160 km2
Population	2,758,124 (July 2006 est.)
Language	English (official), Jamaican Creole
Religion	Protestant 61.3% (Church of God 21.2%, Baptist 8.8%, Anglican 5.5%, Seventh-Day Adventist 9%, Pentecostal 7.6%, Methodist 2.7%, United Church 2.7%, Brethren 1.1%, Jehovah's Witness 1.6%, Moravian 1.1%), Roman Catholic 4%, other, including some spiritual cults 34.7%
Electricity	110 volt / 50 Hz (USA Plug)
Calling Code	+1-876
Internet TLD	.jm
Time Zone	UTC-5

For other places with the same name, see Jamaica (disambiguation).

Jamaica www.visitjamaica.com is an island nation in the Caribbean, located to the south of Cuba and to the west of the island of Hispaniola.

Jamaica is divided into 3 counties and 14 parishes.

Cornwall County:

• Hanover
• Saint Elizabeth
• Saint James
• Trelawny
• Westmoreland

Middlesex County:

• Clarendon
• Manchester
• Saint Ann
• Saint Catherine
• Saint Mary

Surrey County:

• Kingston
• Portland
• Saint Andrew
• Saint Thomas

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