<Tr> <Th> ISO 3166 code </Th> <Td> JM </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Th> Internet TLD </Th> <Td>. jm </Td> </Tr> <P> Jamaica (/ dʒ əˈmeɪkə / (listen)) is an island country situated in the Caribbean Sea . Spanning 10,990 square kilometres (4,240 sq mi) in area, it is the third - largest island of the Greater Antilles and the fourth - largest island country in the Caribbean . Jamaica lies about 145 kilometres (90 mi) south of Cuba, and 191 kilometres (119 mi) west of Hispaniola (the island containing the countries of Haiti and the Dominican Republic). </P> <P> Previously inhabited by the indigenous Arawak and Taíno peoples, the island came under Spanish rule following the arrival of Christopher Columbus in 1494 . Many of the indigenous people died of disease, and the Spanish transplanted African slaves to Jamaica as labourers . Named Santiago, the island remained a possession of Spain until 1655, when England (later Great Britain) conquered it and renamed it Jamaica . Under British colonial rule Jamaica became a leading sugar exporter, with its plantation economy highly dependent on slaves forcibly transported from Africa . The British fully emancipated all slaves in 1838, and many freedmen chose to have subsistence farms rather than to work on plantations . Beginning in the 1840s, the British utilized Chinese and Indian indentured labour to work on plantations . The island achieved independence from the United Kingdom on 6 August 1962 . </P>

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