Jamaica
Names and codes: GeoNames, CC BY 4.0 · Boundary: Natural Earth, public domain · Refresh date not recorded · Sources and licenses
Codes and identifiers
- ISO alpha-2
- JM
- ISO alpha-3
- JAM
- ISO numeric
- 388
- FIPS 10-4
- JM
- GeoNames ID
- 3489940
Key facts
- Capital
- Kingston
- Area
- 10,991 km²
- Population
- 2,934,855
- Currency
- Dollar (JMD)
- Calling code
- +1-876
- Top-level domain
- .jm
- Official languages
- en-JM
Continent
- Name
- North America
- Code
- NA
- In this dataset
- 42 countries
Location
- Latitude
- 18.16667
- Longitude
- -77.25
- Min latitude
- 17.703192450000074
- Min longitude
- -78.37466386599993
- Max latitude
- 18.525091864000046
- Max longitude
- -76.18797766799992
Boundary
The API call behind this page
Request
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" \
"https://geosearch.dev/v1/countries/JM?fields=iso_code,iso3_code,name,capital,population,area_sq_km,currency_code,continent_code"Response
{
"data": {
"area_sq_km": 10991,
"capital": "Kingston",
"continent_code": "NA",
"currency_code": "JMD",
"iso3_code": "JAM",
"iso_code": "JM",
"name": "Jamaica",
"population": 2934855
}
}Formatted for reading. The API returns the same JSON on one line.
Other endpoints for this country
/v1/countries/JM/regions/v1/cities?country=JM/v1/postal-codes?country=JM/v1/timezones?country=JM
Name in other languages
- Arabic
- جامايكا
- Chinese
- 牙买加
- English
- Jamaica
- French
- Jamaïque
- German
- Jamaika
- Hindi
- जमैका
- Italian
- Giamaica
- Japanese
- ジャマイカ
- Korean
- 자메이카
- Portuguese
- Jamaica
- Russian
- Ямайка
- Spanish
- Jamaica
- Total language variants
- 197
The API returns any of them with ?lang=.
Time zones
| IANA ID | UTC offset | DST offset |
|---|---|---|
| America/Jamaica | UTC-05:00 | UTC-05:00 |
First-level administrative regions
- Saint Andrew
- Saint Catherine
- Clarendon
- Manchester
- Saint James
- Parish of Saint Ann
- Saint Elizabeth
- Westmoreland
- Saint Mary
- Saint Thomas
- Kingston
- Portland
- Trelawny
- Parish of Hanover
14 of 14 shown, largest first
Largest cities
| City | Population |
|---|---|
| Kingston | 937,700 |
| New Kingston | 583,958 |
| Spanish Town | 145,018 |
| Portmore | 102,861 |
| Montego Bay | 82,867 |
| Mandeville | 47,115 |
| May Pen | 44,755 |
| Ocho Rios | 26,503 |
| Old Harbour | 26,024 |
| Linstead | 20,660 |
Coverage in this dataset
- Cities
- 3,867
- First-level regions
- 14
- Postal codes
- 0
- Name languages
- 197
- Boundary polygon
- Yes
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