FAST FACTS

• Name: Jamaica
• Capital City: Kingston (590,000 pop.)
• Jamaica Population: (2010 est.)
• World Populations (all countries)
• Currency: Jamaican Dollar
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  One-Thousand Jamaican Dollars
• Ethnicity: Black 91.2%, Mixed 6.2%, other or unknown 2.6% (2001 census)
• GDP total: $23.93 billion (2010 est.)
• GDP per capita: $8,400 (2010 est.)
• Land Sizes
• Language: English, English patois
• Largest Cities: (by population) Kingston, New Kingston, Spanish Town, Portmore, Montego Bay, Mandeville, May Pen, Old Harbour, Linstead, Half Way Tree
• Name: The Arawak name for the island was “Xaymaca,” which means “land of wood and water.” It was Spanish explorers who substituted a J for the X at the beginning of the word.
• National Day: August 6
• Religion: Protestant 62.5% (Seventh-Day Adventist 10.8%, Pentecostal 9.5%, Other Church of God 8.3%, Baptist 7.2%, New Testament Church of God 6.3%, Church of God in Jamaica 4.8%, Church of God of Prophecy 4.3%, Anglican 3.6%, other Christian 7.7%), Roman Catholic 2.6%, other or unspecified 14.2%, none 20.9%, (2001 census)
• Symbols

Bob Marley statue in Kingston, Jamaica AllPosters.com