Outline of Jamaica

The following outline is provided as an overview of and topical guide to Jamaica: Jamaica – sovereign island nation located on the Island of Jamaica of the Greater Antilles archipelago in the Caribbean Sea.

Its indigenous Arawakan-speaking Taíno inhabitants named the island Xaymaca, meaning the "Land of Wood and Water", or the "Land of Springs".

[2] Formerly a Spanish possession known as Santiago, it later became the British West Indies Crown colony of Jamaica.

It is the third most populous anglophone country in the Americas, after the United States and Canada.

They are grouped into three historic counties, which have no administrative relevance (traditional capitals in parentheses): (1) The parishes of Kingston and Saint Andrew together form the Kingston and St. Andrew Corporation.