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Jamaica is an island in the Caribbean ocean, and it is one of the biggest islands in the Caribbean ocean. Cuba and Hispaniola are the largest islands in the Caribbean ocean. Jamaica also is a part of a group of islands, called Greater Antilles. The capital of Jamaica is called Kingston, and have been the capital since 1872.
 * Jamaica **

The aboriginal population is called the arawakes, but the population went down when the Spanish colony came. Today Jamaica consists of descendants of African slaves, but also of immigrants from Europe and Asia. The population consists of 2 825 928 individuals. Usain Bolt is one of the famous people from Jamaica. He has the world record on one hundred meters (9,40).

English is the official language, but they also have Spanish, French and Portuguese. These languages have influenced the English language, so they speak with an accent. You can manage very well as a tourist if you only speak English, because they speak the same language, but with another accent.

Many people go to Jamaica to experience the long white beaches. So if you want to see the beach and the city life, you should go to Ocho Rios or Montego Bay, which are two famous tourist cities. If you don’t like to travel along with other tourist, you should go to St. Elizabeth, which is a place where you can find desert beaches and a beautiful old nature. And if you want to go to the biggest English speaking city in Caribbean, you should go to the capital, Kingston.

The first people on Jamaica were a group of people who were called arawak Indians. They came to the island around 700 BC, but when the British and Spanish people came, the Indians became slaves and died of diseases that the Europeans had brought with them. Around 1510, the Spanish people came, but Christopher Columbus was the first European on the island and he came in 1494. The Spanish people started with farms and slaves. And the Spanish people started the extermination of the arawak people. Many pirates were also on Jamaica. In 1720, a pirate captain called Caliko Jack and his crew came to Jamaica as prisoners, and was hanged on Jamaica because of plundering. His wife Anne Bonny and a lady called Mary Read, was the only who survived from his crew. But he was one of many pirates that were hanged on Jamaica around 1700. The British people came around 1654; they started with sugar, slaves and coffee. Later the slaves started to revolt against the British people. The slaves were killed, tortured and forced to work harder, but they still revolted against them. The last revolt against the British people was the biggest. They started to destroy their own plantations and many slaves died. In 1834, they finally got their freedom. Jamaica was a British colony for first 200 years, from 1654 to around 1860, but after 1860 the slaves got the right to vote, and in 1962, Jamaica becomes an independent nation by leaving the British West Indian or Federation of the West Indians.

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