牙买加位于加勒比海的西北部,东隔牙买加海峡与海地相望,北为加勒比第三大岛。国土面积10991平方千米。人口260多万,首都金斯敦,国名“牙买加”在印第安人阿拉瓦克语中是“泉水之岛”的意思。因国人擅长短跑,在世界大赛上曾多人、多次获得世界冠军,因此牙买加被誉为“产生飞人的国度”。 Jamaica is located in the northwestern Caribbean, across the Jamaica Strait and Haiti, north of the Caribbean’s third largest island. Land area of ​​10991 square kilometers. The population of more than 2.6 million, the capital city of Kingston, the country name “Jamaica” means “spring island” in the Aramaic Indians. Because people are good at sprinting, have many people in the world competition, won several world champions, so Jamaica is known as “the kingdom of the trapeze.”