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Surrey County, Jamaica

释义

History
Parish list and map
References

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| name = Surrey County
| settlement_type = Parishes
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| image_map = Surrey County in Jamaica.svg
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}}{{Politics of Jamaica}}Surrey is the easternmost and the smallest by area of the three historic counties into which Jamaica is divided. It was created in 1758, and is divided into four parishes.^[1]

History

Jamaica's three counties (Surrey, Middlesex and Cornwall) were established in 1758 to facilitate the holding of courts along the lines of the British county court system.^[2] Surrey was named after the English county in which Kingston upon Thames is found.^[2] Kingston was its county town.^[2]

Parish list and map

The county of Surrey is shown in yellow.

Surrey County
On map	Parish	Area km²	Population Census 2011	Capital
11	Kingston Parish⁽¹⁾ ⁽²⁾	21.8	96,052	Kingston
12	Portland	814.0	80,205	Port Antonio
13	Saint Andrew⁽¹⁾	430.7	555,828	Half Way Tree
14	Saint Thomas	742.8	91,604	Morant Bay
	Surrey County	2,009.3	823,689
	*Jamaica* total	10,990.5	2,607,631	*Kingston*

⁽¹⁾ Kingston Parish and Saint Andrew Parish together form Kingston and St Andrew Corporation.

⁽²⁾ Kingston Parish does not encompass all of Kingston.

References

1. ^{{cite web|title=A special Gleaner Feature|url=http://jamaica-gleaner.com/pages/history/story0013.html|website=Jamaica Gleaner}}
2. ^¹²{{cite book |last1= Higman |first1= B. W. |last2= Hudson |first2= B. J. |title= Jamaican Place Names |url= |location= Mona, Jamaica |year= 2009 |publisher= University of the West Indies Press |page= 31 |isbn= 978-976-640-306-5 }}

2 : Counties of Jamaica|1758 establishments in the British Empire

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