Jamaica
island sovereign state in the Caribbean Sea From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Jamaica or Jamaicae (Jamaican Creole: Jumieka, [dʒʌˈmʲeːka]), is an island naition o the Greater Antilles, 234 kilometres (145 mi) in lenth 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 indwallers named the island Xaymaca, meanin the "Land o Wood an Water", or the "Land o Springs".[8]
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Ance a Spaingie 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 King Charles III as heid o state an Kingston is the kintra's lairgest ceety an the caipital.[9][10]
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