Jamaica

Jamaica is an island nation of the Greater Antilles, 240 kilometers in length and as much as 80 kilometers in width situated in the Caribbean Sea. It is 630 kilometers from the Central American mainland, 150 kilometers from Cuba on the north, and 180 kilometers from the island of Hispaniola, on which Haiti and the Dominican Republic are situated, on the east. Its indigenous Arawakan-speaking Taíno inhabitants named the island Xaymaca, meaning either the "land of springs," or the "Land of wood and water." Formerly a Spanish posession known as Santiago, then the British West Indies Crown colony of Jamaica, the country's population is composed mainly of the descendants of former African slaves. It is the third most populous Anglophone country in the Americas, after the United States and Canada.

External links

• Cabinet Official Website
• Google News about Jamaica
• Library and Information Association of Jamaica Website
• google maps
• Jamaica national symbols
• Jamaica Tourist Board Official Website
• CIA World Fact Book entry on Jamaica
• The Jamaica Diaspora Organization Website
• Yard-links: Travel guide with island photography and information about the cities
• Top 5 Jamaica - A comprehensive Jamaican search directory featuring thousands of websites in almost 50 different categories.
• Conservation in Jamaica, including photos of coral reefs taken during a rapid ecological assessment
• The Jamaican Wiki
• Jamaica Travel Guide
• JaWeb
• Jam-boree.com - Jamaica tourism and travel guide featuring hand-picked travel deals.