Geography of Jamaica
This article describes the geography of Jamaica.
; Location: Caribbean, island in the Caribbean Sea, south of Cuba ; Geographic coordinates:
- 18° 15′ N, 77° 30′ W
- Central America and the Caribbean
- Total: 10,990 km²
- Land: 10,830 km²
- Water: 160 km²
- Slightly smaller than Connecticut
- 0 km
- 1,022 km
- Measured from claimed archipelagic baselines
- Continental shelf: 200 m depth or to the depth of exploitation
- Exclusive economic zone: 200 nm
- Territorial sea: 12 nm
- Tropical; hot, humid; temperate interior
- Mostly mountains, with narrow, discontinuous coastal plain
- Lowest point: Caribbean Sea 0 m
- Highest point: Blue Mountain Peak 2,256 m
- Arable land: 14%
- Permanent crops: 6%
- Permanent pastures: 24%
- Forests and woodland: 17%
- Other: 39% (1993 est.)
- 350 km² (1993 est.)
- Hurricanes (especially July to November)
- Heavy rates of deforestation; coastal waters polluted by industrial waste, sewage, and oil spills; damage to coral reefs; air pollution in Kingston results from vehicle emissions
- Signed, but not ratified: None of the selected agreements
- Strategic location between Cayman Trench and Jamaica Channel, the main sea lanes for Panama Canal
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