Jamaica is an island located in the Caribbean Sea, comprising the third largest island of the Netherlands Antilles

The island covers about 10,990 square meters kilometers (4,240 square miles) in area and is located about 145 kilometers (90 miles) south of Cuba, and 191 kilometers (119 miles) west of the island of Hispaniola, from countries including Haiti and the Dominican Republic

Jamaica is one of the five largest countries of the island in the Caribbean

A population of about 2.8 million people, so it is considered the largest English-speaking countries in the Americas, after the United States and Canada, the indigenous population, and Taíno, called them "Axaymka" in Arawak, which means "land of wood and water" or "Land of Springs"

Occurred once in the possession of the Spaniards, known as Santiago, in 1655 under the rule of England later to Britain), the so-called Jamaica, as independence from the United Kingdom has achieved in the August 6, 1962