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LOCATION: |
North America & The Caribbean |
GOVERNMENT: |
Constitutional Parliamentary Democracy |
OFFICIAL LANGUAGE: |
English is the official language and spoken throughout the country. Patois English is prevalent as well. |
MAJOR RELIGION(S): |
Protestant 61.3% (Church of God 21.2%, Seventh-Day Adventist 9%, Baptist 8.8%, Pentecostal 7.6%, Anglican 5.5%, Methodist 2.7%, United Church 2.7%, Jehovah's Witness 1.6%, Brethren 1.1%, Moravian 1.1%), Roman Catholic 4%, other including some Rastafarian and other spiritual cults 34.7% . |
MAJOR ETHNIC GROUPS: |
Black 90.9%, Mixed 7.3% (Arawak/Taino Indian and African, European and African, Chinese and East Indian) East Indian 1.3%, white 0.2%, Chinese 0.2%, other 0.1%. |
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