Jamaica Travel Guide — Things to Do, Food & Hotels
island state in the Caribbean Sea
About Jamaica
With 2.8 million people, Jamaica is the third most populous Anglophone country in the Americas, after the United States and Canada. LikeCanada,New ZealandandAustralia, Jamaica is a Commonwealth realm (the British monarch is the head of state), but it is an independent sovereign nation. Jamaica exports coffee, papaya, bauxite, gypsum, limestone and sugar cane. Its motto and nickname for the country is "Out of Many, One People". The Arawak and Taino indigenous people originating from South America settled on the island between 4000 and 1000 BC. Christopher Columbusclaimed Jamaica for Spain after landing there in 1494. Columbus' probable landing point was Dry Harbour, now called Discovery Bay. St. Ann's Bay was the "Saint Gloria" of Columbus who first sighted Jamaica at this point. The Spanis
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