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For international dialing to Jamaica, the country code is 1. For accessing international destinations from within Jamaica, the international call prefix is 011. Calls from Jamaica to other NANP nations, such as the U.S. and Canada, are dialed as 1 + NANP area code + 7-digit number. Jamaica has a fully digital telephone communication system. [1]
This is a list of plantation great houses in Jamaica.These houses were built in the 18th and 19th centuries when sugar cane made Jamaica the wealthiest colony in the West Indies. [1] Sugar plantations in the Caribbean were worked by enslaved African people [ 2 ] until the aboltion of slavery in 1833.
Freddie Martin and Karl Nunes became the first Jamaicans to play international cricket when they appeared in the West Indies's inaugural Test match, against England in 1928. [1] Nunes captained the West Indies during this match, the first of seven Jamaicans to do so. [2] Chris Gayle has scored the most runs by a Jamaican in Tests, ODIs and ...
Jamaica Pellen Island Morant Cays. This is a list of islands of Jamaica.There are about 49 islands in the island nation of Jamaica.All islands are in the Caribbean Sea.The island of Jamaica has an area of 10,990 km 2 (4,240 sq mi) and is the third largest island in the Caribbean, after Cuba and Hispaniola.
Jamaica is an island country in the Caribbean Sea and the West Indies. At 10,990 square kilometres (4,240 sq mi), it is the third-largest island—after Cuba and Hispaniola —of the Greater Antilles and the Caribbean .
Jamaica is an island country in the Caribbean. The country had a population of 2,825,352 as of 2023, having the fourth largest population in the region. Jamaica's annual population growth rate stood at 0.08% in 2022. As of 2023, 68.9% of Jamaicans were Christians in 2011, predominantly Protestant.
Portmore (Jamaican Creole: Puotmuor) is a large urban settlement located along the southeastern coast of Jamaica in Saint Catherine, and a dormitory community for Kingston and Spanish Town, which neighbour it. On February 11, 2025 the Jamaican House of Representatives voted that Portmore be designated the 15th parish in Jamaica.
Jamaica has two traditional parties from the old colonial era: the Jamaica Labour Party (JLP) and the People's National Party (PNP). The United Independents' Congress of Jamaica (UIC) became the first new (post colonial) registered political party on December 7, 2019. Other parties have cropped up and disintegrated in the past due mostly to a ...