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Overview - Jamaica 
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- Capital:
- Kingston
- Area:
- 10,991 km²
- Population:
- 2,758,124 (2006 estimate)
- Language(s):
- English, patois English.
- Religion(s):
- Protestant (Church of God - 21.2%, Seventh-Day Adventist - 9%, Baptist - 8.8%, Pentecostal - 7.6%, Anglican - 5.5%, Methodist - 2.7%, United Church - 2.7%, Jehovah's Witness - 1.6%, Moravian 1.1%) - 61.3%, Roman Catholic - 4%, others - 34.7%.
- Ethnic Group(s):
- Black - 90.9%, East Indian - 1.3%, White - 0.2%, Chinese - 0.2%, mixed - 7.3%, others - 0.1%.
