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 3. Koeppen-Geiger map (Kottek et al., University of Veterinary Medicine Vienna): World Map of the Koeppen-Geiger Climate Classification, present climate data
Koeppen-Geiger map (Kottek et al., University of Veterinary Medicine Vienna)Koeppen-Geiger-ASCII.txt grid cell 17.75, -76.75Quote, Koeppen-Geiger-ASCII.txt grid cell 17.75, -76.75
17.75 -76.75 Aw
4. GeoNames: Portmore - GeoNames
GeoNamescities500 record 3488981, place matched by name within the country (only place of that name in the country)Quote, cities500 record 3488981, place matched by name within the country (only place of that name in the country)
17.97102 -76.88691 P PPL JM 10 1448 102861 7 America/Jamaica
Portmore, Jamaica (Wikipedia)
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