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  2. Portmore, Saint Catherine - Wikipedia

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    Portmore, Saint Catherine. / 17.9499936; -76.879921. 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.

  3. Newcastle, Jamaica - Wikipedia

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    Newcastle, Jamaica. Newcastle is a settlement in the Blue Mountains of Jamaica. Formerly a military hill station for the British Army it is now a training centre for the Jamaica Defence Force . The Blue Mountain and John Crow Mountain National Park in which Newcastle is located was established in 1992. Newcastle lies on the Kingston to Buff Bay ...

  4. List of plantation great houses in Jamaica - Wikipedia

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    This is a list of plantation great houses in Jamaica. Great houses, or plantation houses, were built at a time when sugar cane made Jamaica the wealthiest English colony in the West Indies. [1] Sugar cane was harvested by enslaved peoples.

  5. Jamaica - Wikipedia

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    Internet TLD. .jm. Jamaica ( / dʒəˈmeɪkə / ⓘ jə-MAY-kə; Jamaican Patois: Jumieka [dʒʌˈmie̯ka]) 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. [11]

  6. Petersfield, Jamaica - Wikipedia

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    Petersfield, Jamaica. / 18.261876; -78.0688906. Petersfield is a small town in Westmoreland Parish, Jamaica. It shares its name with five other places in Jamaica. [2] The town was founded in the 18th century and named after Peter Beckford, a slave owner who settled the Roaring River Estate. [3] Petersfield was a dormitory community for workers ...

  7. Montego Bay - Wikipedia

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    Area code (s) +1-876. +1-658 ( Overlay of 876; active as of November 2018) Montego Bay is the capital of the parish of St. James in Jamaica. The city is the fourth-largest urban area in the country by population, after Kingston, Spanish Town, and Portmore, all of which form the Greater Kingston Metropolitan Area, home to over half a million ...

  8. Cockpit Country - Wikipedia

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    UTC-5 (EST) Cockpit Country is an area in Trelawny and Saint Elizabeth, Saint James, Saint Ann, Manchester and the northern tip of Clarendon parishes in Jamaica. The land is marked by steep-sided hollows, as much as 120 metres (390 ft) deep in places, which are separated by conical hills and ridges. Maroons who had escaped from plantations used ...

  9. Trelawny Parish - Wikipedia

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    Trelawny ( Jamaican Patois: Trilaani or Chrilaani) is a parish in the county of Cornwall in northwest Jamaica. Its capital is Falmouth. It is bordered by the parishes of Saint Ann in the east, Saint James in the west, and Saint Elizabeth and Manchester in the south. Trelawny is known for producing several Olympic sprinters.

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