Key facts
- Country
- Jamaica
- County town
- Spanish Town
- Named after
- Middlesex , England
- Total
- 5,041.9 km (1,946.7 sq mi)
via Wikipedia infobox
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Encyclopedic overview
Map of parishes and counties. The county of Middlesex is shown in pink.
Middlesex is the central of the three historic counties into which Jamaica is divided. It has no current-day administrative significance. It covers 5,041.9 km and has a population of 1,183,361 (about 45% of the island's area and population) giving it the largest area and population of the three counties. It includes Spanish Town, the island's original capital.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Middlesex County” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.