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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Essential Destinations

Top destinations include Grand Cayman and Cayman Brac.

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, shaped like a giant claw "pinching" the North Sound, is the largest of the three islands in the Cayman Islands, a British Overseas Territory.

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is a 14-square-mile island in the Cayman Islands. The island rises from the west side to tall bluffs at the eastern tip of the island. One of the island's main appeals is diving to offshore reefs and shipwrecks.

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is the smallest and least developed of the three Cayman Islands. Just 10 miles long and 1 mile wide, it is one of the premier diving locations on the planet with over 50 dive sites, including the world-famous Bloody Bay Wall.
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Cayman Islands

Latitude of center
19.5° or 19° 30′ north
Longitude of center
-80.6° or 80° 36′ west
Population
49,000
Area
101 miles² (262 km²)
Capital
George Town
Currency
Dollar (KYD)
Phone code
.ky
Internet domain
+1-345
Open­Street­Map ID
node 249399364
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”
  • Azerbaijani: “Kayman Adaları”
  • Balinese: “Kapuloan Cayman”
  • Bambara: “Bama Gun”
  • Bashkir: “Кайман утрауҙары”
  • Bashkir: “Кайман Утрауҙары”
  • Basque: “Kaiman uharteak”
  • Basque: “Kaiman Uharteak”
  • Belarusian: “Кайманавы астравы”
  • Bengali: “কেইম্যান দ্বীপপুঞ্জ”
  • Bengali: “কেইম্যান”
  • Bengali: “কেম্যান দ্বীপপুঞ্জ”
  • Bengali: “কেম্যান”
  • Bishnupriya: “কায়ম্যান দ্বীপমালা”
  • Bosnian: “Kajmanska ostrva”
  • 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: “Cayman Kûn-tó”
  • 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: “開曼羣島”
  • Chinese: “開曼群島”
  • Cornish: “Ynysow Kayman”
  • Corsican: “Isuli Cayman”
  • Croatian: “Kajmanski otoci”
  • 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: “Kaaimaneilanden”
  • 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: “Iles Caïmanes”
  • French: “Îles Caïmanes”
  • French: “îles Caïmans”
  • 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: “Kaimaninseln”
  • 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: “કેમન આઇલેન્ડ્સ”
  • Gujarati: “કેમેન આઇલેન્ડ્સ”
  • Gujarati: “કેમેન આયલેન્ડ્સ”
  • Haitian: “Kayman”
  • Haitian: “Zile Kayiman”
  • Hakka Chinese: “Cayman Khiùn-tó”
  • Hausa: “Tsibiran Kaiman”
  • Hebrew: “איי קיימן”
  • Hindi: “केमन द्वीपसमूह”
  • Hindi: “केमैन द्वीपसमूह”
  • Hindi: “कैमेन द्वीपसमूह”
  • Hungarian: “Kajmán-szigetek”
  • Icelandic: “Cayman-eyjar”
  • Icelandic: “Caymaneyjar”
  • 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”
  • 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”
  • Korean: “케이맨제도”
  • 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”
  • Latvian: “Kaimanu Salas”
  • Ligurian: “Isoe Cayman”
  • Limburgan: “Kaaimaneilen”
  • Limburgan: “Kaojmaanseilen”
  • Lingala: “Bisanga bya Kayíma”
  • Lingua Franca Nova: “Isolas Caiman”
  • Lithuanian: “Kaimanų salos”
  • 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: “കേയ്മൻ ദ്വീപുകൾ”
  • Malayalam: “കേയ്മാൻ ദ്വീപുകൾ”
  • Maltese: “Gżejjer Cayman”
  • Maltese: “Gżejjer Kajman”
  • Maltese: “il-Gżejjer Cayman”
  • Manipuri: “ꯀꯦꯃꯦꯟ ꯏꯊꯠꯁꯤꯡ”
  • Maori: “nga Moutere Cayman”
  • 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 Iegland”
  • Old English (ca. 450-1100): “Cægman Īegland”
  • Oriya: “କେମନ୍ ଦ୍ଵୀପପୁଞ୍ଜ”
  • Oriya: “କେମନ୍ ଦ୍ୱୀପପୁଞ୍ଜ”
  • Oriya: “କେମ୍ୟାନ୍‌ ଦ୍ୱୀପପୁଞ୍ଜ”
  • Ossetian: “Кайманы сакъадæхтæ”
  • Panjabi: “ਕੇਮਨ ਟਾਪੂ”
  • Panjabi: “ਕੇਮੈਨ ਟਾਪੂ”
  • Papiamento: “Islanan Kaiman”
  • Persian: “جزایر کیمن”
  • 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: “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”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Kajmanski Otoci”
  • Shan: “မူႇၵုၼ် ၶေးမႅၼ်း”
  • Shan: “မူႇၵုၼ်ၶေးမႅၼ်း”
  • Shona: “Zvitsuwa zveCayman”
  • Sicilian: “Cayman Islands”
  • Sicilian: “Ìsuli Cayman”
  • Sindhi: “ڪي مين ٻيٽ”
  • Sinhala: “කේමන් දුපත්”
  • Sinhala: “කේමන් දූපත”
  • 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 Caiman”
  • Spanish: “Islas Caimán”
  • Sundanese: “Kapuloan Kayman”
  • Swahili: “Cayman”
  • Swahili: “Visiwa vya Cayman”
  • Swedish: “Caymanöarna”
  • Swedish: “Kajmanöarna”
  • Swiss German: “Kaimaninsle”
  • Tagalog: “Kapuluang Kayman”
  • Tajik: “Ҷазираҳои Кайман”
  • Tamil: “கெய்மென் தீவுகள்”
  • Tamil: “கேமன் தீவுகள்”
  • Tatar: “Кайман утраулары”
  • Telugu: “కేమన్ దీవులు”
  • Telugu: “కేమాన్ దీవులు”
  • Thai: “หมู่เกาะเคย์แมน”
  • Tibetan: “ཁེ་མུན་གླིང་ཚོམ་”
  • Tibetan: “ཁེ་མེན་གླིང་ཕྲན།”
  • Tigrinya: “ደሴታት ኬይማን”
  • Tonga (Tonga Islands): “ʻOtumotu Keimeni”
  • Tosk Albanian: “Kaimaninseln”
  • Turkish: “Cayman Adaları”
  • Turkmen: “Kaýman adalary”
  • Uighur: “كايمان ئاراللىرى”
  • Uighur: “كايمان تاقىم ئاراللىرى”
  • Ukrainian: “Кайманові острови”
  • Ukrainian: “Кайманові Острови”
  • Urdu: “جزائر کیمین”
  • Urdu: “کیمین آئلینڈز”
  • Uzbek: “Kayman orollari”
  • Uzbek: “Kayman Orollari”
  • Venetian: “Ìzołe Caiman”
  • Vietnamese: “Quần đảo Cayman”
  • 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: “קיימאן אינזלען”
  • 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”
  • “CYM”
  • “Kepulauan Cayman”
  • “KY”

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