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Freeport

Freeport is a city on . With a population of 27,000 in 2000, it was the second most populous city in The Bahamas. It is a free trade zone built on swamp land and scrub land. The city was severely damaged by Hurricane Dorian in 2019.
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  • Type: City with 45,900 residents
  • Description: city, district and free trade zone on Grand Bahama
  • Also known as: “Freeport City” and “Freeport, The Bahamas”

Places of Interest

Highlights include Grand Bahama Sports Complex and Grand Bahama International Airport.

Stadium
Grand Bahama Stadium is a in the city of Freeport in . The stadium, mostly used for football and athletics.This is the principal stadium on the of .

Aerodrome
is an international airport in Freeport, The Bahamas. It was privately owned until the government of The Bahamas purchased it in April 29 2021 for one Bahamian dollar, a deal they were able to procure largely due to the devastation from Hurricane Dorian, which almost completely destroyed the airport in 2019.

Church
The Mary Star of the Sea Church is a religious building belonging to the Catholic Church and is located in East Sunrise Highway in the city of Freeport the second largest in .

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Lucaya.

Village
Photo: Ksaraf, CC BY 3.0.
is a suburb of Freeport, Bahamas, a city on the island of , approximately 105 mi east-northeast of , together with Freeport it forms the second largest city in the Bahamas.

Freeport

Latitude
26.5357° or 26° 32′ 9″ north
Longitude
-78.6954° or 78° 41′ 43″ west
Population
45,900
Elevation
20 feet (6 metres)
IATA airport code
FPO
United Nations Location Code
BS FPO
Open location code
77R3G8P3+7V
Open­Street­Map ID
node 1891921400
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
3572375
Wiki­data ID
Q867573
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Satellite Map

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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Vietnamese—“Freeport” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “فريبورت”
  • Asturian: “Freeport”
  • Belarusian: “Фрыпорт”
  • Bengali: “ফ্রিপোর্ট”
  • Bulgarian: “Фрийпорт”
  • Bulgarian: “Фрипорт”
  • Catalan: “Freeport”
  • Cebuano: “City of Freeport District”
  • Cebuano: “Freeport”
  • Chinese: “弗里波特”
  • Chinese: “自由港”
  • Czech: “Freeport”
  • Danish: “Freeport”
  • Dutch: “Freeport”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “فريبورت”
  • Esperanto: “Freeport”
  • Estonian: “Freeport”
  • Finnish: “Freeport”
  • French: “City of Freeport”
  • French: “Freeport”
  • Georgian: “ფრიპორტი”
  • German: “BS-FP”
  • German: “Freeport”
  • Greek: “Φρίπορτ”
  • Gujarati: “ફ્રીપોર્ટ”
  • Hebrew: “פריפורט”
  • Hindi: “फ्री पोर्ट”
  • Hindi: “फ्रीपोर्ट”
  • Hungarian: “Freeport”
  • Indonesian: “Freeport, Bahama”
  • Indonesian: “Freeport”
  • Irish: “Freeport”
  • Italian: “Freeport”
  • Japanese: “フリーポート”
  • Kannada: “ಫ್ರೀಪೋರ್ಟ್”
  • Korean: “프리포트”
  • Latvian: “Frīporta”
  • Lithuanian: “Friportas”
  • Malay: “Freeport, Bahamas”
  • Malay: “Freeport”
  • Marathi: “फ्रीपोर्ट”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Freeport”
  • Norwegian: “Freeport”
  • Persian: “فری پورت، باهاما”
  • Persian: “فری پورت”
  • Persian: “فری‌پورت”
  • Pitcairn-Norfolk: “Friiport”
  • Polish: “Freeport”
  • Portuguese: “City of Freeport”
  • Portuguese: “Freeport”
  • Romanian: “Freeport, Bahamas”
  • Romanian: “Freeport”
  • Russian: “Багамы Фрипорт”
  • Russian: “Фрипорт Багамы”
  • Russian: “Фрипорт, Багамы”
  • Russian: “Фрипорт”
  • Scots: “Freeport, Bahamas”
  • Scots: “Freeport”
  • Sinhala: “ෆ්‍රීපොර්ට්”
  • Sinhala: “ෆ්‍රීපෝර්ට් දිස්ත්‍රික්කය, බහමාස්”
  • Sinhala: “ෆ්රීපෝර්ට්”
  • Slovenian: “BS-FP”
  • Slovenian: “Freeport”
  • Spanish: “Freeport (Bahamas)”
  • Spanish: “Freeport”
  • Swedish: “City of Freeport District”
  • Swedish: “Freeport, Bahamas”
  • Swedish: “Freeport”
  • Tagalog: “Freeport”
  • Tamil: “பிரிப்போர்ட்”
  • Telugu: “ఫ్రీపోర్ట్”
  • Thai: “ฟรีพอร์ท”
  • Thai: “เมืองฟรีพอร์ต”
  • Turkish: “Freeport, Bahama”
  • Turkish: “Freeport, Bahamalar”
  • Turkish: “Freeport”
  • Ukrainian: “Фріпорт”
  • Urdu: “فری پورٹ، بہاماس”
  • Vietnamese: “Freeport”

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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikivoyage page “Freeport”. Photo: qwesy qwesy, CC BY 3.0.