Jamaica

Official name
Jamaica
Region
Americas
Sub-Region
Caribbean
ISO 3166-1
jm

      

Montego Bay is the capital of the parish of St. James and is also Jamaica's only other officially incorporated city, referred to as The Second City. The city with a population of 110,115 (2011), is however the fourth largest urban area by population after Kingston, Spanish Town and Portmore, all of which form the Greater Kingston Metropolitan Area, home to over half a million people. 

 The city is enclosed in a watershed, drained by several rivers such as the Montego River.

The city of Montego Bay, in Jamaica, is growing rapidly and therefore it is facing a series of challenges, such as traffic congestions, high crime rates and occurrence of natural disasters.