| The New Dictionary of Cultural Literacy, Third Edition. 2002. |
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| Jamaica |
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| Nation in the West Indies, situated south of Cuba and west of Haiti, in the Caribbean Sea. Its capital and largest city is Kingston. | 1 |
| ‡ It was the leading world sugar producer in the eighteenth century, when a large slave population grew up around sugar plantations. | 2 |
| ‡ A British colony from 1865 to 1962, Jamaica then became completely independent. | 3 |
| ‡ The country has a high level of poverty. | 4 |
| ‡ Tourism is a major industry. | 5 |
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| | | The New Dictionary of Cultural Literacy, Third Edition. Edited by E.D. Hirsch, Jr., Joseph F. Kett, and James Trefil. Copyright © 2002 by Houghton Mifflin Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved. |
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