GeoPointe - Jamaica

Official Name: Jamaica

Location: Caribbean, island in the Caribbean Sea, south of Cuba.

Capital: Kingston

Area:	total: 10,991 sq km
	land: 10,831 sq km
	water: 160 sq km

Lowest point: Caribbean Sea 0 m

Highest point: Blue Mountain Peak 2,256 m

City At Sunset From Blue Mountains, Kingston, Jamaica

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Population: 2,930,050 (July 2014 est.)

Nationality: Jamaican(s)

Ethnic groups: Black 92.1%, mixed 6.1%, East Indian 0.8%, other 0.4%, unspecified 0.7%

Religions: Protestant 64.8% (includes Seventh Day Adventist 12.0%, Pentecostal 11.0%, Other Church of God 9.2%, New Testament Church of God 7.2%, Baptist 6.7%, Church of God in Jamaica 4.8%, Church of God of Prophecy 4.5%, Anglican 2.8%, United Church 2.1%, Methodist 1.6%, Revived 1.4%, Brethren .9%, and Moravian .7%), Roman Catholic 2.2%, Jehovah's Witness 1.9%, Rastafarian 1.1%, other 6.5%, none 21.3%

Languages: English, English patois

Tropical. Hot and humid. Temperate interior

Government type: Constitutional parliamentary democracy and a Commonwealth realm

Independence: 6 August 1962 (from the United Kingdom)

National holiday: Independence Day, 6 August (1962)