Jamaica lies 145 kilometres south of Cuba and 190 kilometres west of Haiti. Its capital city, Kingston, is about 920 kilometres southeast of Miami. At its greatest extent, Jamaica is 235 kilometres long, and it varies between 35 and 82 kilometres wide. With an area of 10,911 square kilometres, Jamaica is the largest island of the Commonwealth Caribbean and the third largest of the Greater Antilles, after Cuba and Hispaniola. Pedro Bank, an area of shallow seas, with a number of cays (low islands or reefs), extending generally east to west for over 160 kilometres, lies southwest of Jamaica. To the southeast lie the Morant Cays, fifty-one kilometres from Morant Point, the easternmost point of mainland Jamaica.

There are 22 main rivers in Jamaica (Rio Minho being the largest in length - 92.5km).

Jamaica is divided into 3 counties (Cornwall, Middlesex, Surrey).

They are 14 parishes in Jamaica as Followed