Jamaica

Jamaica is an island nation of the Greater Antilles, situated in the Caribbean Sea.

Formerly a Spanish possession known as Santiago, it later became the British West Indies Crown colony of Jamaica. It is the third most populous Anglophone country in the Americas, after the United States and Canada.

British seized the island in 1655 and ruled Jamaica for over three hundred years. After WWII, Jamaica slowly gained increasing independence from the United Kingdom. In 1958, it became a province in the Federation of the West Indies, a federation among all of the British West Indies. Jamaica attained full independence by leaving the federation in 1962.

Jamaica's population consists mainly of people of West-African descent, comprising about 90.9% of the demographics.