Kingston

Jamaica

Kingston is the capital and largest city of Jamaica, located on the southeastern coast of the island. It faces a natural harbour protected by the Palisadoes, a long sand spit which connects the town of Port Royal and Norman Manley International Airport to the rest of the island. Kingston is the largest English-speaking city south of the United States in the Western Hemisphere.

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Country: Jamaica
Population: 937,700
Latitude: 17.98° N
Longitude: 76.77° O

Which way is Kingston from…

From Paris, Kingston lies at 274° to the west, 7,726 km as the crow flies.

Paris	274° west	7,726 km
London	271° west	7,535 km
New York	187° south	2,542 km
Madrid	273° west	7,309 km
Rome	283° west	8,626 km
Montreal	187° south	3,075 km
Saint-Denis, Réunion	275° west	15,012 km

Bearings as the crow flies (great circle), measured from north. From somewhere else, the bearing changes: that’s the whole game.

Oùcécap’s take

Kingston, from London, is due west: 271°, 7,535 km away. A flat map would nonetheless put it south-west, at 241°. In the Americas, Jamaica’s capital lies due south of Washington (179°), and Lima lies due south of it (181°): three capitals on one meridian. Port-au-Prince is only 472 km to the east.