Total area: 10,990 km2
land area: 10,830 km2

Comparative area: slightly smaller than Connecticut

Land boundaries: none

Coastline: 1,022 km

Maritime claims:

Territorial sea: 12 nm

Climate: tropical; hot, humid; temperate interior

Terrain: mostly mountains with narrow, discontinuous coastal plain

Natural resources: bauxite, gypsum, limestone

Land use: 19% arable land; 6% permanent crops; 18% meadows and pastures; 28% forest and woodland; 29% other; includes 3% irrigated

Environment: subject to hurricanes (especially July to November); deforestation; water pollution

Note: strategic location between Cayman Trench and Jamaica Channel, the main sea lanes for Panama Canal

NOTE: The information regarding Jamaica on this page is re-published from the 1990 World Fact Book of the United States Central Intelligence Agency. No claims are made regarding the accuracy of Jamaica Geography 1990 information contained here. All suggestions for corrections of any errors about Jamaica Geography 1990 should be addressed to the CIA.