Bay Islands
The Bay Islands are several Caribbean islands in the Bay of Honduras, off the northern coast of Honduras, in Central America.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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Essential Destinations
Top destinations include Roatán and Útila.
Roatán
Roatán is the largest of the Bay Islands of Honduras, in the Caribbean Sea. The island rests on an exposed ancient coral reef, rising to about 270 metres above sea level.
Útila
Útila is the smallest of the three major islands in the Bay Islands group in the west Caribbean Sea off the northern coast of Honduras. It's a very popular destination for those on a budget to get their PADI certifications, or do fun dives, and party.
Guanaja
Photo: Denise Clarke, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Guanaja is one of the Bay Islands off the northern coast of Honduras. It is about 70 km off the north coast of Honduras, and 12 km from the island of Roatan.
Destinations to Discover
Explore places such as Cayos Cochinos.
Cayos Cochinos
Photo: RioGTomlin, Public domain.
The Cayos Cochinos are two small islands and several islets off the northern coast of Honduras. They consist primarily of Cochino Grande and Cochino Pequeño.
Bay Islands
- Type: department of Honduras with 110,000 residents
- Description: department of Honduras
- Also known as: “Bay Islands Department”, “Bay Islands Department, HN”, “Bay Islands Department, Honduras”, “Departamento de Islas de la Bahia”, and “The Bay Islands”
- Location: Caribbean Honduras, Honduras, Central America, North America
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Yue Chinese—“Bay Islands” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “إدارة جزر الخليج”
- Basque: “Badiako Uharteak”
- Basque: “Islas de la Bahía”
- Belarusian: “Астравы Іслас-дэ-ла-Баія”
- Belarusian: “Іслас-дэ-ла-Баія”
- Bengali: “বে আইল্যান্ড বিভাগ”
- Breton: “Islas de la Bahía”
- Bulgarian: “Ислас де ла Баия”
- Bulgarian: “Ислас де ла Байя”
- 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”
- Esperanto: “Islas de la Bahía”
- Estonian: “Bahia saared”
- Estonian: “Bahía saared”
- Finnish: “Islas de la Bahia”
- Finnish: “Islas de la Bahía”
- French: “Departement des Islas de la Bahia”
- 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: “HN-IB”
- German: “Islas de la Bahia”
- German: “Islas de la Bahía”
- Greek: “Νησιά Μπέι”
- Gujarati: “બે આયલેન્ડ્સ વિભાગ”
- Hebrew: “איי באייה”
- Hindi: “बे द्वीप समूह विभाग”
- Hungarian: “Islas de la Bahía megye”
- Indonesian: “Departemen Pulau Teluk”
- 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: “バイーア諸島”
- Kannada: “ಬೇ ದ್ವೀಪಗಳು ಇಲಾಖೆ”
- 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”
- Marathi: “इस्लास दे ला बाहिया”
- Marathi: “इस्लास देला बाहिया”
- Marathi: “बे द्वीप समूह विभाग”
- Northern Frisian: “Islas de la Bahía (Department)”
- Northern Frisian: “Islas de la Bahía”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Bay Islands department”
- Persian: “استان ایسلاس دلا باهیا”
- Polish: “Islas de la Bahía”
- Polish: “Wyspy Bahia”
- Portuguese: “Departamento das Ilhas da Baía”
- Portuguese: “Departamento de Islas de la Bahía”
- Portuguese: “Ilhas da Baía”
- Portuguese: “Islas de la Bahía”
- Quechua: “Islas de la Bahía suyu”
- Russian: “Бая”
- 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: “Bay Islands”
- Slovenian: “HN-IB”
- Slovenian: “Islas de la Bahía”
- Spanish: “Bay Islands”
- Spanish: “Departamento de Islas de la Bahía”
- Spanish: “Islas de la Bahía”
- Spanish: “Las Islas de la Bahía”
- Swedish: “Bahíaöarna”
- Tamil: “பே இஸ்லாண்ட்ஸ் துறை”
- Telugu: “బే ఐలాండ్స్ డిపార్ట్మెంట్”
- Telugu: “బే ఐలాండ్స్ రాష్ట్రభాగం”
- Thai: “จังหวัดอิสลัสเดลาบาอิอา”
- Turkish: “Bay Adaları”
- Turkish: “Körfez Adaları”
- Ukrainian: “Іслас-де-ла-Бая”
- Urdu: “بے آیلینڈز ڈیپارٹمنٹ”
- Urdu: “بے آیلینڈز محکمہ”
- Vietnamese: “Bay Islands”
- Vietnamese: “Islas de la Bahía”
- Waray (Philippines): “Islas de la Bahía”
- Yue Chinese: “海灣群島省”
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