A little bit about Jamaica

 


A little about Jamaica
Jamaica is an island nation of the Greater Antilles, 150 miles (240 kilometres) in length and as much as 50 miles (85 kilometres) in width situated in the Caribbean Sea. It is 391 miles (635 kilometres) east of the Central American mainland, 93 miles (150 kilometres) south of Cuba, and 112 miles (180 kilometres) west of the island of Hispaniola, on which Haiti and the Dominican Republic are situated.

Its indigenous Taino people named the island Xaymaca, meaning either the "Land of Springs," or the "Land of Wood and Water." The Spanish settled the island and called it Santiago, it later became the British West Indies Crown colony of Jamaica. It is the third most populous anglophone country in the Americas, after Canada and the United States.