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www.hantra.com/Jamaica |
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Jamaica1@hantra.com |
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Caribbean, island in the Caribbean Sea, south of Cuba |
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total: 10,991 sq km
land: 10,831 sq km
water: 160 sq km |
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2,695,867 (July 2003 est.) |
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black 90.9%, East Indian 1.3%, white 0.2%, Chinese 0.2%, mixed 7.3%, other 0.1% |
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Protestant 61.3% (Church of God 21.2%, Baptist 8.8%, Anglican 5.5%, Seventh-Day Adventist 9%, Pentecostal 7.6%, Methodist 2.7%, United Church 2.7%, Brethren 1.1%, Jehovah's Witness 1.6%, Moravian 1.1%), Roman Catholic 4%, other, including some spiritual cults 34.7% |
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English, patois English |
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purchasing power parity - $10.08 billion (2002 est.) |
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tourism, bauxite, textiles, food processing, light manufactures, rum, cement, metal, paper, chemical products |
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Jamaican dollar (JMD) |
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