Bay Islands

The Bay Islands are several Caribbean islands in the Bay of Honduras, off the northern coast of , in .
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is the largest of the Bay Islands of , in the Caribbean Sea.

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is the smallest of the three major islands…

is one of the Bay Islands off the northern coast of .

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The are two small islands and several islets off the northern coast of .

Bay Islands

  • Type: department of Honduras with 110,000 residents
  • Description: department of Honduras
  • Also known as: “Badiako Uharteak”, “Bahia saared”, “Bay Islands Department”, “Bay Islands Department, HN”, “Bay Islands Department, Honduras”, “Departamento das Ilhas da Baía”, “Departamento de Islas de la Bahia”, “Departemen Pulau Teluk”, “Departement des Islas de la Bahia”, “HN-IB”, “Islas de la Bahia”, “Las Islas de la Bahía”, “The Bay Islands”, “Бая”, “Ислас де ла Байя”, “بے آیلینڈز ڈیپارٹمنٹ”, “बे द्वीप समूह विभाग”, “బే ఐలాండ్స్ రాష్ట్రభాగం”, and “バイーア諸島”
  • Location: , , ,
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Latitude of center
16.096° or 16° 5′ 46″ north
Longitude of center
-86.9329° or 86° 55′ 59″ west
Population
110,000
Elevation
7 metres (23 feet)
Geo­Names ID
Wiki­data ID
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In Other Languages

From Amharic to Yue Chinese—“Bay Islands” goes by many names.
  • Amharic: “ቤይ ደሴቶች”
  • Arabic: “إدارة جزر الخليج”
  • Azerbaijani: “Bay Islands”
  • Basque: “Islas de la Bahía”
  • Belarusian: “Астравы Іслас-дэ-ла-Баія”
  • Belarusian: “Іслас-дэ-ла-Баія”
  • Bengali: “বে আইল্যান্ড বিভাগ”
  • Bengali: “বে দ্বীপপুঞ্জ”
  • Breton: “Islas de la Bahía”
  • Bulgarian: “Ислас де ла Баия”
  • Catalan: “Illes de la Badia”
  • Cebuano: “Departamento de Islas de la Bahía”
  • Chinese: “海湾群岛省”
  • Chinese: “海灣群島”
  • Chinese: “海灣群島省”
  • Czech: “Islas de la Bahía”
  • Danish: “Bay Islands Department”
  • Dutch: “Islas de la Bahía”
  • Esperanto: “departemento Islas de la Bahía”
  • Esperanto: “Departemento Islas de la Bahía”
  • Estonian: “Bahía saared”
  • Finnish: “Islas de la Bahía”
  • French: “Bay Islands”
  • French: “Département des Islas de la Bahía”
  • French: “Islas de la Bahía”
  • Galician: “Departamento de Islas de la Bahía”
  • Georgian: “ისლას-დე-ლა-ბაიის დეპარტამენტი”
  • German: “Bay Islands”
  • German: “Islas de la Bahía”
  • Greek: “Νησιά Μπέι”
  • Gujarati: “બે આયલેન્ડ્સ વિભાગ”
  • Hausa: “Bay Islands”
  • Hebrew: “איי באייה”
  • Hindi: “खाड़ी द्वीपसमूह विभाग”
  • Hungarian: “Islas de la Bahía megye”
  • Indonesian: “Islas de la Bahía”
  • Italian: “dipartimento di Islas de la Bahía”
  • Italian: “Dipartimento di Islas de la Bahía”
  • Italian: “Islas de la Bahía”
  • Japanese: “イスラス・デ・ラ・バイア県”
  • Japanese: “ベイ諸島”
  • Javanese: “Bay Islands”
  • Kannada: “ಬೇ ದ್ವೀಪಗಳು ಇಲಾಖೆ”
  • Kazakh: “Қалық аралдары”
  • Kirghiz: “Чокусу аралдары”
  • Korean: “이슬라스데라바이아주”
  • Ladino: “Izlas de la Bahía”
  • Latvian: “Baijas Salas departaments”
  • Lithuanian: “Bahijos salos”
  • Low German: “Departamento Islas de la Bahía”
  • Malay: “Bay Islands Department”
  • Malay: “Bay Islands”
  • Marathi: “इस्लास दे ला बाहिया”
  • Marathi: “इस्लास देला बाहिया”
  • Northern Frisian: “Islas de la Bahía”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Bay Islands department”
  • Oromo: “Bay Islands”
  • Panjabi: “ਬੇ ਦੀਪ”
  • Persian: “استان ایسلاس دلا باهیا”
  • Persian: “جزایر خلیج”
  • Polish: “Islas de la Bahía”
  • Polish: “Wyspy Bahia”
  • Portuguese: “Bay Islands”
  • Portuguese: “Ilhas da Baía”
  • Pushto: “خلیج ټاپوان”
  • Quechua: “Islas de la Bahía suyu”
  • Russian: “Ислас-де-ла-Баия”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Departman Islas de la Bahía”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Islas de la Bahía”
  • Sinhala: “කලපු දූපත් දෙපාර්තමේන්තුව”
  • Sinhala: “බේ අයිලන්ඩ්ස් දෙපාර්තමේන්තුව, හොන්ඩුරාස්”
  • Slovak: “Islas de la Bahía”
  • Slovenian: “Islas de la Bahía”
  • Somali: “Bay Islands”
  • Spanish: “Departamento de Islas de la Bahía”
  • Spanish: “Islas de la Bahía”
  • Swahili: “Bay Islands”
  • Swedish: “Bahíaöarna”
  • Tajik: “Ҷазираҳои Bay”
  • Tamil: “பே இஸ்லாண்ட்ஸ் துறை”
  • Tatar: “Bay Islands”
  • Telugu: “బే ఐలాండ్స్ డిపార్ట్మెంట్”
  • Thai: “จังหวัดอิสลัสเดลาบาอิอา”
  • Turkish: “Bay Adaları”
  • Turkish: “Körfez Adaları”
  • Ukrainian: “Іслас-де-ла-Бая”
  • Urdu: “بے آیلینڈز محکمہ”
  • Uzbek: “Bay Islands”
  • Vietnamese: “Islas de la Bahía”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Islas de la Bahía”
  • Yue Chinese: “海灣群島省”

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