Middlesex is the central of the three historic counties into which

Jamaica Jamaica is an island country in the Caribbean Sea and the West Indies. At , it is the third-largest island—after Cuba and Hispaniola—of the Greater Antilles and the Caribbean. Jamaica lies about south of Cuba, west of Hispaniola (the is ...

is divided. It has no current-day administrative significance. It covers 5,041.9 km² and has a population of 1,183,3612001 census (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. Jamaica parishes numbered2

''The county of Middlesex is shown in pink.''

History

Jamaica's three counties were established in 1758 to facilitate the holding of courts along the lines of the British county court system. Middlesex, the middle of the three, was named after an English county of the same name. It was chosen in

presumably because of its central position. Spanish Town was its

county town In Great Britain and Ireland, a county town is usually the location of administrative or judicial functions within a county, and the place where public representatives are elected to parliament. Following the establishment of county councils in ...

Parishes

References

{{Authority control Counties of Jamaica 1758 establishments in the British Empire