Surrey County, Jamaica
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{{Short description|Historic county of Jamaica}}
{{Infobox settlement
| name = Surrey
| settlement_type = County
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| established_title = Established
| established_date = 1758
| named_for = Surrey, England
| area_total_km2 = 2009.3
| population_total = 823689
| image_map = Surrey County in Jamaica.svg
| subdivision_type = Country
| subdivision_name = Jamaica
| subdivision_type1 = County town
| subdivision_name1 = Kingston
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{{Politics of Jamaica}}
Surrey (also Surry) 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.{{cite web|title=A special Gleaner Feature|url=http://jamaica-gleaner.com/pages/history/story0013.html|website=Jamaica Gleaner}}
noneThe county of Surrey is shown in yellow
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.{{cite book |last1= Higman |first1= B. W. |last2= Hudson |first2= B. J. |title= Jamaican Place Names |location= Mona, Jamaica |year= 2009 |publisher= University of the West Indies Press |page= 31 |isbn= 978-976-640-306-5 }} Surrey was named after the English county in which Kingston upon Thames is found. Kingston was its county town.
Parish
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| style="background: #FFA;" colspan="5" align="center" |Surrey County | |
| style="background: #EEE;" |On map | style="background: #EEE;" |Parish | style="background: #EEE;" align="right"|Area | style="background: #EEE;" align="right"|Population | style="background: #EEE;" |Capital | |
| 11 | Kingston Parish(1) (2)
| align="right"| 21.8 | align="right"| 96,052 | Kingston |
| 12 | Portland
| align="right"| 814.0 | align="right"| 80,205 |
| 13 | Saint Andrew(1)
| align="right"| 430.7 | align="right"| 555,828 |
| 14 | Saint Thomas
| align="right"| 742.8 | align="right"| 91,604 |
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| | Surrey County
| align="right"| 2,009.3 | align="right"| 823,689 | |
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| | Jamaica total
| align="right"| 10,990.5 | align="right"| 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
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{{Parishes of Jamaica}}
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