Portmore is a city in Saint Catherine Parish in southeastern Jamaica, functioning mainly as a commuter town for the capital Kingston and housing about a tenth of the population of the Kingston Corporate Area. Begun in the late 1960s as a residential development to relieve overcrowding in Kingston and granted city status in 2003, it had a population of about 156,468 at a 2011 estimate and was ratified as Jamaica's fifteenth parish in February 2025.
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1. GeoNames: Portmore
GeoNames geonameid 3488981 (Portmore), cities500/allCountries bulk dump, matched by primary name + country + coordinates within 25km (w-bbfill-geography6-0926)View the Source 2. Portmore, Saint Catherine (Wikipedia)
Wikipedia infobox 'Founded' = '1960' on 'Portmore, Saint Catherine'View the Source Portmore, Jamaica (Wikipedia)
In Group: Cities of Caribbean (World), Wikipedia; part-of country and UN M49 subregionView the Source Reader Challenges (0)
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