Spanish Town
Spanish Town is the capital and the largest town in the parish of St. Catherine in the historic county of Middlesex, Jamaica. It was the Spanish and British capital of Jamaica from 1534 until 1872.Photo: Not home, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Notable Places in the Area
Spanish Town Hospital
Spanish Town Hospital is a hospital in Spanish Town, Jamaica. It is located near the city center.Spanish Town railway station
Spanish Town railway station opened in 1845 and closed in 1992 when all passenger services in Jamaica abruptly ceased.St. Jago High School
St. Jago High School in Spanish Town, St Catherine, Jamaica, founded in 1744, is one of the oldest, continuously operated schools in the Western Hemisphere.Spanish Town
- Type: City with 131,000 residents
- Description: town and city in the Saint Catherine Parish, Jamaica
- Categories: town, big city and locality
- Location: Spanish Town Central, Saint Catherine Parish, Jamaica, Caribbean, North America
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
17.9957° or 17° 59' 45" northLongitude
-76.9541° or 76° 57' 15" westPopulation
131,000Elevation
31 metres (102 feet)United Nations Location Code
JM SPTOpen Location Code
7795X2WW+79OpenStreetMap ID
node 247716893OpenStreetMap Feature
place=cityGeoNames ID
3488465Wikidata ID
Q846939Spanish Town Satellite Map
© OpenStreetMap, Mapbox and Maxar
Also Known As
- Afrikaans: Spanish Town
- Arabic: Spanish Town
- Arabic: سبانيش تاون
- Armenian: Սպենիշ թաուն
- Armenian: Սփենիշ թաուն
- Asturian: Spanish Town
- Basque: Spanish Town
- Belarusian: Спаніш-Таўн
- Bengali: স্প্যানিস টাউন
- Bulgarian: Спаниш Таун
- Catalan: Spanish Town
- Chinese: 西班牙鎮
- Chinese: 西班牙镇
- Czech: Spanish Town
- Danish: Santiago de la Vega
- Danish: Spanish Town
- Danish: St. Jago de la Vega
- Danish: Villa de la Vega
- Dutch: Spanish Town
- Egyptian Arabic: سبانيش تاون
- English: Spanish Town, Saint Catherine
- English: Villa de la Vega
- Esperanto: Hispanurbo,
- Esperanto: Hispanurbo
- Esperanto: Spanish Town
- Estonian: Spanish Town
- Finnish: Spanish Town
- French: Spanish Town
- French: Spanish Town (Sainte-Catherine)
- French: Villa de la Vega
- German: Santiago de la Vega
- German: Spanish Town
- German: Villa de la Vega
- Greek: Σπάνις Τάουν
- Gujarati: સ્પેનિશ નગર
- Hebrew: ספניש טאון
- Hindi: स्पैनिश टाउन
- Hungarian: Spanish Towns
- Indonesian: Spanish Town
- Irish: Spanish Town
- Italian: Santiago de la Vega
- Italian: Spanish Town
- Jamaican Creole English: Panish Tong, Jumieka
- Jamaican Creole English: Panish Tong, Sin Kiachrin
- Jamaican Creole English: Panish Tong
- Japanese: サンティアゴ・デ・ラ・ベガ
- Japanese: スパニッシュタウン
- Japanese: スパニッシュ・タウン
- Japanese: ビジャ・デ・ラ・ベガ
- Kannada: ಸ್ಪ್ಯಾನಿಷ್ ಟೌನ್
- Korean: 스패니시타운
- Latvian: Spaništauna
- Lithuanian: Spanish Town
- Lithuanian: Spaniš Taunas
- Malay: Spanish Town
- Marathi: स्पॅनिश नगर
- Norwegian: Spanish Town
- Norwegian Bokmål: Spanish Town
- Persian: اسپنیش تاون
- Polish: Spanish Town
- Portuguese: Santiago de la Vega
- Portuguese: Spanish Town
- Portuguese: Villa de la Vega
- Russian: Спаниш-Таун
- Russian: Спэниш-Таун
- Serbo-Croatian: Spanish Town
- Silesian: Spanish Town
- Sinhala: ස්පැනිෂ් ටවුන්
- Slovenian: Spanish Town
- Spanish: Ciudad Española
- Spanish: Spanish Town
- Spanish: Villa de la Vega
- Swedish: Spanish Town
- Tamil: ஸ்பாநிஷ் நகரம்
- Telugu: స్పానిష్ పట్టణం
- Thai: สแปนิช ทาวน์
- Turkish: Spanish Town
- Ukrainian: Спаніш-Таун
- Urdu: سپینش ٹاؤن
- Venetian: Spanish Town
- Vietnamese: Spanish Town
- Waray (Philippines): Spanish Town
- Welsh: Spanish Town
- Saint Jago de la Vega
Other Places Named Spanish Town
Localities in the Area
- Tawes MeadowsNeighbourhood
- De la Vega CityNeighbourhood
- GreendaleNeighbourhood
- LauristonNeighbourhood
- Ensom CityNeighbourhood
Landmarks in the Area
- Old Court HouseGovernment office
- Emancipation SquareSquare
- People's Museum of Craft & TechnologyMuseum
- St. Catherine Parish Council (House of Assembly, 1762)Government office
- Spanish Town Post OfficePost office
Popular Destinations in Jamaica
Escape to a Random Place
About Mapcarta. Thanks to Mapbox for providing amazing maps. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License. Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, excluding photos, directions and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipdia page Spanish Town. Photo: Not home, CC BY-SA 3.0.