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JAMAICA INFORMATION |
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Map of
Jamaica |
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Flag of
Jamaica |
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Coat of Arms |
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| Location:
Jamaica is an island in the West Indies, 90 mi
(145 km) south of Cuba and 100 mi (161 km) west
of Haiti. |
| Capital:
Kingston |
| Time Zone:
Standard time zone: UTC/GMT -5 hours |
| Currency:
Jamaican dollar, US dollar widely accepted. |
| Telephone:
Local area code is + 1-876. |
| Languages:
English, Jamaican Creole (Patois) |
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Airports: Sangster, Montego Bay. Norman
Manley, Kingston. |
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| Island
Size: 146 miles long and between 22 and 51
miles wide; 4,411 square miles. |
| Land
area: 4,181 sq mi
(10,829 sq km) |
| Population
(2006 est.): 2,758,124 (growth rate: 0.8%);
birth rate: 20.8/1000; infant mortality rate:
16.0/1000; life expectancy: 73.2; density per sq
mi: 660 |
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Ethnicity/race: black
90.9%, East Indian 1.3%, white 0.2%, Chinese
0.2%, mixed 7.3%, other 0.1% |
| Religions:
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% |
| Climate:
Temperatures range from high 70° to mid-80° F.
Annual rainfall averages 78 inches. |
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Electricity: Electrical current in Jamaica
is 110 volts, 50 cycles. |
| Driving:
On the left - valid driver's license is
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Counties & Parishes |
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Surrey
county
(east) |
Kingston
Portland
Saint Andrew
Saint Thomas |
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Middlesex county
(centre) |
Clarendon
Manchester
Saint Ann
Saint Catherine
Saint Mary |
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Cornwall county
(west)
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Hanover
Saint Elizabeth
Saint James
Trelawny
Westmoreland |
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Embassies and Consulates |
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Argentina |
876
926-5588 |
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Bangladesh |
876-923-8922-7 |
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Barbados |
876-925-9263 |
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Belgium |
876-924-1761 |
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Belize |
876-920-7908 |
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Colombia |
876-929-1701-2 |
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Cuba |
876-978-0931-3 |
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Ecuador |
876-929-5861 |
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Finland |
876-929-4392 |
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Guatemala |
876-926-1180 |
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Grenada |
876-926-4933 |
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Honduras |
876-969-5082 |
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India |
876-927-0486 |
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Israel |
876-922-6670 |
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Russian Federation |
876-924-1048 |
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Suriname |
876-929-1040 |
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Sweden |
876-978-5121 |
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Switzerland |
876-978-7857 |
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Trinidad and Tobago |
876-926-5730 |
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Turkey |
876-927-6176-7 |
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Uruguay |
876-960-4227 |
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USA |
876-929-4850-8 |
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Yugoslavia |
876-060-1750 |
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