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Jamaica (nation) |
Coordinates: |
| Lat: 18 15 00 N degrees minutes |
Lat: 18.2500 decimal degrees |
| Long: 077 30 00 W degrees minutes |
Long: -77.5000 decimal degrees |
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Note: Comprises island of the same name and surround islets; originally inhabited by Arawaks, who migrated from other islands ca. 700 CE; Spanish colonized 16th century, brought West Africans as slaves for sugar plantations 17th century; British acquired area 1670; Maroons (organized runaway slaves) rebelled 17th-18th centuries; official language is English, though a Jamaican English creole, Spanish, French and African languages are also spoken. |
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| Jamaica (preferred,C,V,O,English-P,U,N)
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| Jamaica (Magyar (Hungarian))
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| Jamaica (Danish)
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| Jamaica (Norwegian (Nynorsk))
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| Jamaica (Swedish)
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| Jamaica (Portuguese)
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| Jamaica (Romanian)
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| Jamaica (Spanish-P,U,N)
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| Jamaica (Catalan)
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| Jamaica (Welsh)
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| Jamaica (Dutch)
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| Jamaica (Estonian)
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| Jamaica (Greenlandic)
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| Jamaica (Norwegian (Bokmål))
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| Jamaica (North Ndebele)
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| Jamaica (Northern Sami)
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| Jamaica (Shona)
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| Jamaïque (C,O,French-P,U,N)
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| Jamaika (C,O,Sunda)
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| Jamaika (Malagasy)
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| Jamaika (Indonesian)
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| Jamaika (Javanese)
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| Jamaika (Bambara)
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| Jamaika (Latvian)
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| Jamaika (Finnish)
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| Jamaika (Basque)
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| Jamaika (Achinese)
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| Jamaika (Hausa)
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| Jamaika (German)
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| Jamaika (Low German)
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| Jamaika (Bavarian)
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| Jamaika (Albanian, Tosk)
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| Jamaika (Breton)
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| Jamaika (Afrikaans)
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| Jamaika (Faroese)
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| Jamaika (Lithuanian)
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| Jamaika (Tetum)
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| Jamaika (Turkish)
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| Jamaika (Luxembourgish)
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| Jamaika (Lower Sorbian)
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| Jamaika (Western Frisian)
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| Jamaika (Upper Sorbian)
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| Jamaika (Kikuyu)
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| Jamaika (Malay (macrolanguage))
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| Jamaika (Swahili (generic))
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| Jamaika (Ido)
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| Jamaika (Northern Frisian)
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| Jamaika (Novial)
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| Jamaika (Samogitian)
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| Giamaica (C,O,Italian)
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| Giamaica (Venetian)
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| Giamaica (Ligurian)
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| Giamaica (Lombard)
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| Giamaica (Sicilian)
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| Giamaica (Romansh)
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| Ямайка (C,O,Tatar)
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| Ямайка (Tajik)
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| Ямайка (Chuvash)
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| Ямайка (Bashkir)
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| Ямайка (Lezgian)
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| Ямайка (Chechen)
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| Ямайка (Kazakh)
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| Ямайка (Kyrgyz)
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| Ямайка (Bulgarian)
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| Ямайка (Russian-P,U)
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| Ямайка (Ukrainian)
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| Ямайка (Komi)
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| Ямайка (Western Mari)
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| Ямайка (Belarusian)
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| 牙买加 (C,O,Chinese-P,U)
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| جاما كٍا (C,O,Arabic-P,U)
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| JAM (C,O,ISO3L)
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| JM (C,O,ISO2L)
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| ISO388 (C,O,ISO3N)
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| Jamaican (C,O,English,U,A)
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| Ямайкæ (C,U,Ossetian/Ossetic)
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| Camayka (C,U,Turkish, Crimean)
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| Camayka (Dimli)
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| Camekeän (C,U,Volapük)
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| Chamaica (C,U,Aragonese)
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| Djamaika (C,U,Nauruan)
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| djamaikas (C,U)
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| Dzamaika nutome (C,U,Ewe)
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| Ġamajka (C,U,Maltese)
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| Giamàica (C,U,Sardinian)
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| Giamàica (Piemontese)
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| Gyameka (C,U,Akan)
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| Ha-mai-ca (C,U,Vietnamese)
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| Hamaika (C,U,Ilocano)
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| Hamayka (C,U,Tagalog)
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| Iaimeuca (C,U,Scots Gaelic)
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| Iamaica (C,U,Latin)
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| Iamaica (Anglo-Saxon)
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| Iamáice (C,U,Irish Gaelic)
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| i-Jamaica (C,U,Zulu)
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| IJamayikha (C,U,Swati (Swazi))
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| Jamaayikaa (C,U,Oromo)
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| Jamaeka (C,U,Pitcairn-Norfolk)
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| Jamaik (C,U,Veps)
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| Jamáíkà (C,U,Yoruba)
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| Jamaikạ (C,U,Igbo)
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| Jamaîka (C,U,Kurdish)
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| Jamaíka (C,U,Icelandic)
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| Jamaïka (C,U,Malagasy)
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| Jamaïke (C,U,Lingala)
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| Jamaiki (C,U,Luba-Katanga)
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| Jamajka (C,U,Croatian)
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| Jamajka (Bosnian)
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| Jamajka (Polish)
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| Jamajka (Slovak)
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| Jamajka (Slovene)
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| Jamajka (Czech)
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| Jamajka (Silesian)
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| Jamajko (C,U,Esperanto)
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| J·amayica (C,U,Arpitan)
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| Jamayik (C,U,Haitian (Haitian Creole))
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| Jamayika (C,U,Rundi)
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| Jamayika (Rwanda)
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| Jamayika (Ganda (Ugandan language))
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| Jamayka (C,U,Wolof)
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| Jamayka (Somali)
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| Jamayka (Cornish)
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| Jamayka (Fulah)
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| Jaméíkʼa (C,U,Navajo)
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| Jameika (C,U,Faroese)
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| Jameyka (C,U,Somali)
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| Ngà-mâi-kâ (C,U,Chinese, Hakka)
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| Orílẹ́ède Jamaika (C,U,Yoruba)
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| Samaika (C,U,Tonga (Tonga Islands))
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| Shamayka (C,U,Quechuan)
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| Tschameeki (C,U,Pennsylvania German)
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| Xamaica (C,U,Nahuatl)
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| Xamaica (Asturian)
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| Xamaica (Galician)
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| Xamayka (C,U,Ayamará)
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| Xhamajka (C,U,Albanian)
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| Xhamajkë (C,U,Albanian)
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| Yamaika (C,U,Central Bikol)
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| Yamayka (C,U,Uzbek)
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| Yamayka (Azerbaijani)
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| Yamayka (Gagauz)
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| Yn Yamaicey (C,U,Gaelic, indigenous Manx)
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| Zamaîka (C,U,Sangho)
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| Zamaiki (C,U,Lingala)
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| Zamayiki (C,U,Bambara)
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| 자메이카 (C,U,Korean)
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| جمیکا (C,U,Pashto)
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| جمیکا (Panjabi, Western)
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| جمیکا (Urdu)
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| ஜமேக்கா (C,U,Tamil)
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| يامايكا (C,U,Uyghur)
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| 牙買加 (C,U,Chinese, Yue)
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| גמייקה (C,U,Hebrew )
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| Ջամայկա (C,U,Armenian)
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| جامائیکا (C,U,Azerbaijani, South)
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| جامائیکا (Persian-Farsi)
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| جامائیکا (Northern Luri)
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| Τζαμάικα (C,U,Greek)
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| जमैका (C,U,Marathi)
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| जमैका (Sanskrit)
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| जमैका (Hindi)
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| जमैका (Pali)
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| जमैका (Newari)
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| ཇ་མའི་ཀ (C,U,Tibetan)
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| ཇ་མའི་ཀ (Dzongkha)
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| جامایکا (C,U,Kurdish)
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| جامایکا (Central Kurdish)
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| Җамайкудин Орн (C,U,Kalmyk)
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| جمايکا (C,U,Pashto)
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| จาเมกา (C,U,Thai)
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| ޖެމެއިކާ (C,U,Maldivian (Divehi))
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| جامايكا (C,U,Arabic)
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| ጃማይካ (C,U,Tigrinya)
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| ጃማይካ (Amharic)
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| Ямайкэ (C,U,Kabardian)
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| ਜਮੈਕਾ (C,U,Panjabi, Eastern)
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| ហ្សាម៉ាអ៉ិគ (C,U,Khmer)
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| Джамайка (C,U,Russia Buriat)
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| იამაიკა (C,U,Mingrelian)
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| იამაიკა (Georgian)
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| জ্যামেকা (C,U,Bengali)
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| ประเทศจาเมกา (C,U,Thai)
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| Ճամայկա (C,U,Armenian)
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| Ямайк (C,U,Mongolian)
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| Јамајка (C,U,Serbian)
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| Јамајка (Macedonian)
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| ジャマイカ (C,U,Japanese)
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| דזשאמייקע (C,U,Yiddish)
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| Дьамайка (C,U,Yakut)
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| जमाइका (C,U,Hindi)
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| जमाइका (Nepali)
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| چامايكا (C,U,Arabic, Egyptian)
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| জামাইকা (C,U,Bengali)
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| জামাইকা (Bishnupriya Manipuri)
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| جميڪا (C,U,Sindhi)
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| ဂျမေကာနိုင်ငံ (C,U,Burmese)
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| ຈາໄມກາ (C,U,Lao)
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| Ямайке (C,U)
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| Τζαμαίκαν (C,U,Pontic)
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| ဂျမေနီကာ (C,U,Burmese)
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| ג׳מייקה (C,U,Hebrew )
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| ଜାମାଇକା (C,U,Odia)
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| ཛ་མེ་ཀ། (C,U,Tibetan)
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| ஜமைகா (C,U,Tamil)
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| ಜಮೈಕಾ (C,U,Kannada)
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| జమైకా (C,U,Telugu)
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| ජැමෙයිකාව (C,U,Sinhala)
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| જમૈકા (C,U,Gujarati)
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| جمائیکا (C,U,Urdu)
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| ജമൈക്ക (C,U,Malayalam)
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| Xaimaca (H,V)
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............ | Arawak, meaning "land of the springs" |
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Place Types: |
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| nation (preferred, C) |
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self-governing since 1944, gained independence from Britain August 6, 1962 |
| primary political unit (C) |
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| independent sovereign nation (C) |
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| constitutional monarchy (C) |
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| island nation (C) |
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| independent political entity (C) |
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Related geographic places: |
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| capital is .... |
Kingston .......... (inhabited place) |
| .................. |
(World, North and Central America, Jamaica, Surrey, Kingston) [1016870] |
| distinguished from .... |
Jamaica .......... (island) |
| .................................. |
(World, North and Central America, Jamaica) [7030371] |
| member of .... |
Commonwealth of Nations .......... (association) |
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(World) [7005615] |
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joined association in 1962 |
| member of .... |
United Nations .......... (organization) |
| ................ |
(World) [7029605] |
| ................ |
joined organization in 1962 |
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