
The Towns of Jamaica: Montego Bay
THE TOWN Montego Bay, capital of the parish of St. James, is one of two Jamaican cities with with an official city status. Referred to as "The Second City," it is more widely known as MoBay in local lingo and sometimes Bay by the locals. With a population of 100,000, the city is the fourth largest urban area by population after Kingston, Spanish Town and Portmore. Montego Bay is designated the second-largest Anglophone city in the Caribbean, after Jamaica's capital city, Kin