Cayman Islands

The Cayman Islands are an island group in the Sea, 90 mi south of . They are a self-governing British Overseas Territory. The stunning coral reefs and outstandingly clear waters have made this island group a popular destination for divers.
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Top destinations include Grand Cayman and Cayman Brac.
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is a 14-square-mile island in the Cayman Islands.
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is the smallest and least developed of the three Cayman Islands.
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Cayman Islands

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Latitude of center
19.5° or 19° 30′ north
Longitude of center
-80.6° or 80° 36′ west
Open­Street­Map ID
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Open­Street­Map feature
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Geo­Names ID
3580718
Wiki­data ID
Q5785

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In Other Languages

From Afrikaans to Zulu—“Cayman Islands” goes by many names.
  • Afrikaans: “Kaaimanseilande”
  • Akan: “Cayman Supɔws”
  • Akan: “Kemanfo Islands”
  • Albanian: “Ishujt Cayman”
  • Albanian: “Ishujt Kajman”
  • Amharic: “ከይመን ደሴቶች”
  • Amharic: “ካይማን ደሴቶች”
  • Angika: “केय्मैन द्वीप”
  • Arabic: “جزر الكايمان”
  • Arabic: “جزر الكايمن”
  • Arabic: “جزر كايمان”
  • Aragonese: “Islas Caimán”
  • Armenian: “Կայմանյան կղզիներ”
  • Arpitan: “Iles Cayimans”
  • Assamese: “কেইমেন দ্বীপপুঞ্জ”
  • Asturian: “Islles Caimán”
  • Azerbaijani: “Kayman Adaları”
  • Balinese: “Kapuloan Cayman”
  • Bambara: “Bama Gun”
  • Bashkir: “Кайман утрауҙары”
  • Basque: “Kaiman Uharteak”
  • Belarusian: “Кайманавы астравы”
  • Bengali: “কেইম্যান দ্বীপপুঞ্জ”
  • Bengali: “কেইম্যান”
  • Bengali: “কেম্যান দ্বীপপুঞ্জ”
  • Bengali: “কেম্যান”
  • Bishnupriya: “কায়ম্যান দ্বীপমালা”
  • Bosnian: “Kajmanska Ostrva”
  • Breton: “Inizi Cayman”
  • Bulgarian: “Кайманови острови”
  • Burmese: “ကေမန် ကျွန်းစု”
  • Catalan: “Caiman”
  • Catalan: “Illes Caiman”
  • Cebuano: “Isla sa Cayman”
  • Central Bikol: “Islas Caiman”
  • Central Bikol: “Kaiislahang Cayman”
  • Central Kurdish: “دوورگەکانی کەیمەن”
  • Chechen: “Кайман гӀайренаш”
  • Chechen: “Кайманийн гӀайренаш”
  • Cherokee: “ᎨᎢᎹᏂ ᏚᎦᏚᏛᎢ”
  • Chinese: “凯门群岛”
  • Chinese: “开曼群岛 / 開曼群島”
  • Chinese: “开曼群岛”
  • Chinese: “盖曼群岛”
  • Chinese: “開曼群島”
  • Cornish: “Ynysow Kayman”
  • Corsican: “Isuli Cayman”
  • Croatian: “Kajmanski Otoci”
  • Czech: “Kajmanské ostrovy”
  • Czech: “Kajmany”
  • Danish: “Caymanøerne”
  • Dhivehi: “ކޭމަން ޖަޒީރާ”
  • Dimli (individual language): “Adey Kaymani”
  • Dutch: “Caymaneilanden”
  • Dutch: “CYM”
  • Dutch: “Kaaiman-Eilanden”
  • Dutch: “KY”
  • Dzongkha: “ཁེ་མེན་གླིང་ཚོམ”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “جزر كايمان”
  • Esperanto: “Kajmana Insularo”
  • Esperanto: “Kejmanoj”
  • Estonian: “Kaimanisaared”
  • Ewe: “Kayman ƒudomekpowo nutome”
  • Extremaduran: “Islas Caimán”
  • Faroese: “Caymanoyggjar”
  • Faroese: “Caymanoyggjarnar”
  • Finnish: “Caymansaaret”
  • French: “Îles Caïman”
  • French: “Îles Caïmanes”
  • French: “Îles Caïmans”
  • French: “îles Caymans”
  • Fulah: “Duuɗe Kaymaa”
  • Gagauz: “Kayman Adaları”
  • Galician: “Illas Caimán”
  • Ganda: “Bizinga ebya Kayimaani”
  • Georgian: “კაიმანის კუნძულები”
  • German: “Cayman Islands”
  • German: “Kaiman-Inseln”
  • German: “Lagartos”
  • German: “Las Caymanas”
  • German: “Las Tortugas”
  • Greek: “Κέιμαν Νήσοι”
  • Greek: “Νησιά Καϋμάν”
  • Greek: “Νησιά Κέιμαν”
  • Greek: “Νήσοι Κέιμαν”
  • Guianese Creole French: “Zil Kayiman”
  • Gujarati: “કેમેન આઇલેન્ડ્સ”
  • Gujarati: “કેમેન આયલેન્ડ્સ”
  • Haitian: “Kayman”
  • Haitian: “Zile Kayiman”
  • Hakka Chinese: “Cayman Khiùn-tó”
  • Hausa: “Tsibiran Kaiman”
  • Hebrew: “איי קיימן”
  • Hindi: “कैमेन द्वीपसमूह”
  • Hungarian: “Kajmán-szigetek”
  • Icelandic: “Cayman-eyjar”
  • Ido: “Insuli Kaiman”
  • Ido: “Kaiman-Insuli”
  • Igbo: “Agwaetiti Cayman”
  • Inari Sami: “Caymansuolluuh”
  • Indonesian: “Kepulauan Cayman”
  • Indonesian: “Kepulauan Kayman”
  • Interlingua: “Insulas de Caiman”
  • Irish: “Oileáin Cayman”
  • Italian: “Isole Cayman”
  • Jamaican Creole English: “Kieman Ailanz”
  • Japanese: “ケイマン諸島”
  • Javanese: “Kapuloan Cayman”
  • Javanese: “Kapuloan Kéman”
  • Javanese: “Kepulauan Cayman”
  • Kalaallisut: “Cayman qeqertaq”
  • Kannada: “ಕೇಮನ್ ದ್ವೀಪಗಳು”
  • Kara-Kalpak: “Kaymanov atawları”
  • Kashmiri: “کیمَن جٔزیٖرٕ”
  • Kazakh: “Кайман аралдары”
  • Khmer: “កោះ​កៃម៉ង់”
  • Kikuyu: “Visiwa vya Kayman”
  • Kinyarwanda: “Ibirwa bya Kayimani”
  • Kirghiz: “Кайман аралдары”
  • Korean: “케이맨 제도”
  • Korean: “케이맨”
  • Kurdish: “Giravên Caymanê”
  • Kurdish: “Giravên Kaymanê”
  • Ladin: “Ijules Cayman”
  • Lao: “ໝູ່ເກາະ ເຄແມນ”
  • Lao: “ໝູ່ເກາະໄກມານ”
  • Latin: “Caimanae insulae”
  • Latin: “Insulae Caimanenses”
  • Latvian: “Kaimanas”
  • Latvian: “Kaimanu salas”
  • Ligurian: “Isoe Cayman”
  • Limburgan: “Kaaimaneilen”
  • Limburgan: “Kaojmaanseilen”
  • Lingala: “Bisanga bya Kayíma”
  • Lingua Franca Nova: “Isolas Caiman”
  • Lithuanian: “Kaimanų salos”
  • Low German: “Kaiman-Eilannen”
  • Low German: “Kaimaninseln”
  • Lower Sorbian: “Kajmany”
  • Luba-Katanga: “Lutanda lua Kayima”
  • Luxembourgish: “Kaimaninselen”
  • Macedonian: “Кајмански Острови”
  • Malagasy: “Nosy Kayman”
  • Malay: “Cayman Islands”
  • Malay: “Kepulauan Cayman”
  • Malayalam: “കേയ്മാൻ ദ്വീപുകൾ”
  • Maltese: “Gżejjer Cayman”
  • Maltese: “Gżejjer Kajman”
  • Maltese: “il-Gżejjer Cayman”
  • Manipuri: “ꯀꯦꯃꯦꯟ ꯏꯊꯠꯁꯤꯡ”
  • Maori: “nga Moutere Cayman”
  • Maori: “Ngā Moutere Kāmana”
  • Marathi: “केमन द्वीपसमूह”
  • Marathi: “केमन बेटे”
  • Mazanderani: “کیمن”
  • Min Dong Chinese: “Cayman Gùng-dō̤”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Cayman Kûn-tó”
  • Mingrelian: “კაიმანიშ კოკეფი”
  • Mongolian: “Кайманы арлууд”
  • Nepali: “केम्यान टापु”
  • Nepali: “केयमान टापु”
  • North Ndebele: “Cayman Islands”
  • Northern Frisian: “Kaiman Eilunen”
  • Northern Sami: “Cayman-sullot”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Caymanøyene”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Caymanøyane”
  • Norwegian: “Caymanøyene”
  • Novial: “Kayman Isles”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Illas Caiman”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Islas Caiman”
  • Old English (ca. 450-1100): “Cægman Īegland”
  • Oriya: “କେମନ୍ ଦ୍ଵୀପପୁଞ୍ଜ”
  • Oriya: “କେମନ୍ ଦ୍ୱୀପପୁଞ୍ଜ”
  • Oriya: “କେମ୍ୟାନ୍‌ ଦ୍ୱୀପପୁଞ୍ଜ”
  • Ossetian: “Кайманы сакъадæхтæ”
  • Panjabi: “ਕੇਮੈਨ ਟਾਪੂ”
  • Papiamento: “Islanan Kaiman”
  • Persian: “جزایر کِیمن”
  • Picard: “Îles Caïmans”
  • Piemontese: “Ìsole Caiman”
  • Polish: “Kajmany”
  • Portuguese: “Ilhas Caimã”
  • Portuguese: “Ilhas Caiman”
  • Portuguese: “Ilhas Caimão”
  • Portuguese: “Ilhas Cayman”
  • Pushto: “کايمن ټاپوګان”
  • Pushto: “کیمان ټاپوګان”
  • Quechua: “Islas Caimán”
  • Romanian: “Insulele Cayman”
  • Romansh: “Inslas Cayman”
  • Rundi: “Ibirwa bya Keyimani”
  • Russian: “Каймановы Острова”
  • Russian: “Кайманы”
  • Russian: “Острова Кайман”
  • Sango: “Âzûâ Ngundë, Kaimäni”
  • Scots: “Cayman Islands”
  • Scots: “KY”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “Na h-Eileanan Caimean”
  • Serbian: “Кајманска Острва”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Kajmanski Otoci”
  • Shan: “မူႇၵုၼ် ၶေးမႅၼ်း”
  • Shona: “Zvitsuwa zveCayman”
  • Sicilian: “Cayman Islands”
  • Sicilian: “Ìsuli Cayman”
  • Sindhi: “ڪائيمين ٻيٽ”
  • Sindhi: “ڪي مين ٻيٽ”
  • Sinhala: “කේමන් දූපත්”
  • Slovak: “Kajmanie ostrovy”
  • Slovak: “Kajmanské ostrovy”
  • Slovenian: “CAY”
  • Slovenian: “Kajmanji otoki”
  • Slovenian: “Kajmanski otoki”
  • Slovenian: “ky”
  • Slovenian: “Las Tortugas”
  • Somali: “Cayman Islands”
  • South Azerbaijani: “کئیمن آدالاری”
  • South Azerbaijani: “کیمن آدالاری”
  • Spanish: “Cayman Islands”
  • Spanish: “Islas Caimán”
  • Sundanese: “Kapuloan Kayman”
  • Swahili: “Cayman”
  • Swahili: “Visiwa vya Cayman”
  • Swedish: “Caymanöarna”
  • Swedish: “Kajmanöarna”
  • Swiss German: “Kaimaninseln”
  • Swiss German: “Kaimaninsle”
  • Tagalog: “Kapuluang Kayman”
  • Tajik: “Ҷазираҳои Кайман”
  • Tamil: “கெய்மென் தீவுகள்”
  • Tamil: “கேமன் தீவுகள்”
  • Tatar: “Кайман утраулары”
  • Telugu: “కేమాన్ దీవులు”
  • Thai: “หมู่เกาะเคย์แมน”
  • Tibetan: “ཁེ་མུན་གླིང་ཚོམ་”
  • Tibetan: “ཁེ་མེན་གླིང་ཕྲན།”
  • Tigrinya: “ደሴታት ኬይማን”
  • Tonga (Tonga Islands): “ʻOtumotu Keimeni”
  • Turkish: “Cayman Adaları”
  • Turkmen: “Kaýman adalary”
  • Uighur: “كايمان ئاراللىرى”
  • Uighur: “كايمان تاقىم ئاراللىرى”
  • Ukrainian: “Кайманові острови”
  • Urdu: “جزائر کیمین”
  • Urdu: “کیمین آئلینڈز”
  • Uzbek: “Kayman orollari”
  • Venetian: “Ìzołe Caiman”
  • Vietnamese: “Quần Đảo Cayman”
  • Walloon: “Iyreye des Cayimans”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Kapuropud-an Cayman”
  • Welsh: “Ynysoedd Caiman”
  • Welsh: “Ynysoedd Cayman”
  • Western Frisian: “Caymaneilannen”
  • Western Frisian: “Kaaimaneilannen”
  • Western Mari: “Кайман ошмаотывлӓ”
  • Western Panjabi: “کیمین جزیرے”
  • Wolof: “Duni Kaymaan”
  • Wolof: “Duni Kaymaŋ”
  • Wu Chinese: “开曼群岛”
  • Yakut: “Каймаан арыылара”
  • Yiddish: “קיימאַן אינזלען”
  • Yoruba: “Àwọn Erékùṣù Káímàn”
  • Yoruba: “Etíokun Kámánì”
  • Yue Chinese: “開曼羣島”
  • Yue Chinese: “開曼群島”
  • Zulu: “i-Cayman Islands”
  • “ma lili Keman”

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