Jamaica is an island nation of the Greater Antilles, 240 kilometres (150 miles) in length and as much as 85 kilometres (50 miles) in width situated in the Caribbean Sea. It is 635 kilometres (391 miles) east of the Central American mainland, 150 kilometres (93 miles) south of Cuba, and 180 kilometres (112 miles) west of the island of Hispaniola, on which Haiti and the Dominican Republic are situated. Its indigenous Arawakan-speaking Ta