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At about 4,240 square miles, Jamaica is about the size of the state of Connecticut – small for a landmass, but big for a Caribbean island. Distances on the beach-fringed island, which is 148 miles long and 50 miles wide, seem longer than they are, thanks to the region’s rainforest-cloaked, mountainous … more spine, which must be driven around. The country’s 2.7 million people are divided between the cities of Kingston, on the southeast coast, Montego Bay in the northwest, and countless rural communities in between. Most visitors dedicate the majority of their time to the beaches.
