Map of Jamaica

Jamaica is located in North America. Its territory lies in the northern and western hemispheres, centred near 18.2° N, 77.5° W. It is an island nation and shares no land borders with any other country, so every approach to it is made by sea or by air. Within North America, a continent of 23 countries bordered by the Arctic Ocean, the Atlantic Ocean and the Pacific Ocean, Jamaica is mapped here in full with its borders, capital and key facts.

Jamaica is an island state with no land borders. The nearest countries are reached across open water rather than over a shared frontier.

Jamaica covers about 10,991 km² (4,244 sq mi). That makes it the 160th-largest country in the world by area and the 15th-largest in North America, larger by area than 8 of the continent’s 23 countries.

It is home to a population of roughly 2,825,544, the 139th-largest in the world and the 13th-largest in North America, accounting for about 0.5% of the continent’s people. With that land area, Jamaica has an average population density of about 257 people per km². Among the 23 countries of North America it stands 13th by population and 15th by area.

The seat of government is Kingston, and the official currency is the Jamaican dollar (JMD, $), and the main official languages are English and Jamaican Patois. Traffic drives on the left, and the country observes the time zone UTC-05:00.

Jamaica carries the ISO country codes JM and JAM, dials on the international calling code +1 and uses the .jm internet domain.

Jamaica has no land neighbours. It is an island nation, so the countries nearest to it are reached across open water rather than over a shared border. Its position at 18.2° N, 77.5° W places it about 2,026 km from the equator, in the northern and western hemispheres, within the wider region of North America.

The interactive map above is centred on 18.2° N, 77.5° W and opens at zoom level 8, framing Jamaica within North America. A marker pin sits at the country’s approximate geographic centre; drag the map or use scroll and pinch to move from a regional overview down to the streets of Kingston. The map is drawn from OpenStreetMap data, the same open dataset used across this site, so place names, roads and coastlines stay consistent from one country to the next.

Jamaica lies about 2,026 km from the equator, in the northern and western hemispheres of the globe. As an island, its full extent is best seen by zooming out to take in the surrounding sea.

Jamaica keeps a single standard time zone, UTC-05:00. That figure is the country’s offset from Coordinated Universal Time (UTC), the modern reference that for everyday purposes matches Greenwich Mean Time, so local clocks sit -05:00 relative to UTC before any seasonal daylight saving change.

The official currency is the Jamaican dollar (JMD, $).

The official languages are English and Jamaican Patois, which is what appears on signs, documents and many of the place labels you will see on the map.

For practical reference, vehicles drive on the left-hand side of the road, the international dialling code is +1 and websites commonly use the .jm internet domain.

In short, Jamaica is an island nation in North America, with no land borders. Its capital is Kingston. Jamaica has a population of about 2,825,544 and covers around 10,991 km² (4,244 sq mi), ranking it 139th in the world by population and 160th by area. The interactive map, facts table and questions on this page bring those details together in one place for Jamaica.

The flag of Jamaica is divided by a gold diagonal cross into four alternating triangular areas of green at the top and bottom, and black on the hoist and fly sides.

The flag of Jamaica is shown above as an emoji, rendered by your device’s own font; see it alongside every other nation on the flags of the world page.