1,206-CITY ATLASSOURCE-BACKED CITY REFERENCE
Jamaica
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01What the data says — and does not say
This page separates the checked GeoNames row for Kingston—937,700, America/Jamaica, and source coordinates—from live travel claims. Those fields identify and compare the record; they do not prove current transport, accessibility, census totals, or a City Atlas Club visit.
Wikidata's localized description: capital of Jamaica.
02This city's dataset fingerprint
The source row behind Kingston is GeoNames ID 3489854. Its recorded administrative path is Kingston → Jamaica, and GeoNames classifies the place as a capital of a political entity. Kingston occurs once as a primary city label in this atlas sample; the numeric ID remains the durable source key if names change. The city row itself was updated 2021-08-01; that date belongs to the source record, not to every transport or visitor detail in the real destination.
Within the fixed 1,206-record atlas, Kingston ranks 592 by recorded population. Inside the 1 selected Jamaica entries it ranks 1; inside the 198 entries in its broad region it ranks 81. Its 937,700 population value is 1.00 times the 937,700 median for the country cohort and 1.15 times the 816,326 regional median. Kingston is rank 1 among the 1 selected Jamaica entries, so a percentage band would overstate this small cohort. Kingston's recorded value stays within one quarter of the country-cohort median used here. These comparisons describe this selected dataset only; they are not current census rankings or official urban-area boundaries.
Kingston's three nearest other atlas coordinates are Santiago de Cuba at 247.35 km with 555,865 recorded people; Carrefour at 467.733 km with 511,345 recorded people; Port-au-Prince at 474.271 km with 1,234,742 recorded people. The closest-to-farthest distance spread is 226.921 km. Compared with Santiago de Cuba, Kingston's recorded population is 1.69 times as large. Against Kingston, Santiago de Cuba follows Municipio de Santiago de Cuba → Santiago de Cuba Province → Cuba in the source. Its point has higher latitude and higher longitude; it belongs to the selected Cuba cohort rather than Jamaica, uses America/Havana instead of America/Jamaica, and carries first-order administrative seat rather than capital of a political entity. Its recorded population is below Kingston's. Against Kingston, Carrefour follows Arrondissement de Port-au-Prince → Ouest → Haiti in the source. Its point has higher latitude and higher longitude; it belongs to the selected Haiti cohort rather than Jamaica, uses America/Port-au-Prince instead of America/Jamaica, and carries populated place rather than capital of a political entity. Its recorded population is below Kingston's. Against Kingston, Port-au-Prince follows Arrondissement de Port-au-Prince → Ouest → Haiti in the source. Its point has higher latitude and higher longitude; it belongs to the selected Haiti cohort rather than Jamaica, uses America/Port-au-Prince instead of America/Jamaica, and carries the same capital of a political entity class. Its recorded population is above Kingston's. Its nearest-neighbor distance ranks 1,061 of 1,206 from shortest to longest in the same snapshot. Kingston's nearest-coordinate gap belongs to the wider half of atlas distances. This pattern can reveal whether other catalog references are geographically close, but it cannot establish whether a border crossing is possible or practical, or whether rail, road, fare, or journey-time connections exist. Read as one record signature, GeoNames 3489854, the coordinate pair 17.9970 / 76.7936, country rank 1 of 1, and neighbor GeoNames 3536729 at 247.35 km bind Kingston to a reproducible comparison. That combined key distinguishes the row; it is not a recommendation or evidence of a physical connection.
Kingston's reference point is 17.9970° north and 76.7936° west. The IANA identifier America/Jamaica is shared by 1 city rows in this catalog, while the GeoNames class PPLC is shared by 129 rows. Kingston's row carries a first-order administrative label but no second-order label. Kingston's point falls in the lower-latitude coordinate band used by this atlas's row checks. Kingston's time-zone field defines the narrower catalog cohort; its place class is shared more broadly. GeoNames supplies no elevation for Kingston, so the profile preserves that missing value instead of guessing terrain. Together these fields form a reproducible identity check for this page, not a claim about walkability, climate or accessibility.
03Nearby atlas references
Kingston's closest other entries in this atlas are Santiago de Cuba (247.35 km), Carrefour (467.733 km), Port-au-Prince (474.271 km).
04Verify before you book
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GeoNames updated the row 2021-08-01; the atlas checked the dataset 2026-08-04. Available Wikidata fields were verified in the same run.
GeoNames data: CC BY 4.0. Wikidata labels and descriptions: CC0 1.0.