Grand Cayman

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

Highlights include Central Mangrove Wetland and Haig Bodden Stadium.

The Central Manrove Wetland is a large area of mangrove dominated wetland on Grand Cayman, one of the , a British Overseas Territory in the . It is one of the territory's .

Sports venue
Bodden Town Football Club is a professional football club, which currently plays in the Cayman Islands Premier League.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Bodden Town and North Side.

Town
is the former capital of the and the in the territory. It is situated on a natural harbour and a coral reef.

Village
is a town and district in the . Located on the northern coast of Grand Cayman, in 2021 it had a population of 1,902. There is a primary school and high school in the district, as well as an association football team called the FC.

Grand Cayman

Latitude
19.3228° or 19° 19′ 22″ north
Longitude
-81.2487° or 81° 14′ 55″ west
Population
69,200
Elevation
20 feet (6 metres)
IATA airport code
GCM
Open location code
76FW8QF2+4G
Geo­Names ID
3580656
Wiki­data ID
Q737765
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Satellite Map

Discover Grand Cayman from above in high-definition satellite imagery.

In Other Languages

From Arabic to Ukrainian—“Grand Cayman” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: جراند كايمان
  • Arabic: غراند كايمان
  • Belarusian: Востраў Гранд-Кайман
  • Belarusian: Вялікі Кайман
  • Belarusian: Гранд Кайман
  • Belarusian: Гранд-Кайман
  • Catalan: Grand Cayman
  • Cebuano: Grand Cayman
  • Chinese: 大开曼
  • Chinese: 大開曼
  • Croatian: Grand Cayman
  • Croatian: Veliki Kajman
  • Czech: Grand Cayman
  • Danish: Grand Cayman
  • Dutch: Grand Cayman
  • Esperanto: Granda Kajmano
  • Finnish: Grand Cayman
  • French: Grand Cayman
  • Galician: Gran Caimán
  • Georgian: დიდი კაიმანი
  • German: Grand Cayman
  • Greek: Γκραντ Κέιμαν
  • Greek: Μεγάλο Καϊμάν
  • Hebrew: גראנד קיימן
  • Hebrew: גרנד קיימן
  • Hebrew: קיימן הגדול
  • Hungarian: Grand Cayman
  • Hungarian: Nagy-Kajmán
  • Indonesian: Cayman Besar
  • Italian: Grand Cayman
  • Japanese: グランドケイマン
  • Japanese: グランドケイマン島
  • Korean: 그랜드케이먼
  • Lithuanian: Didysis Kaimanas
  • Lithuanian: Grand Kaimanas
  • Macedonian: Голем Кајман
  • Norwegian Bokmål: Grand Cayman
  • Norwegian: Grand Cayman
  • Persian: گرند کیمن
  • Polish: Grand Cayman
  • Polish: Wielki Kajman
  • Portuguese: Grand Cayman
  • Portuguese: Grande Caimão
  • Russian: Большой Кайман
  • Serbo-Croatian: Veliki Kajman
  • Slovenian: Grand Cayman
  • Spanish: Gran Caiman
  • Spanish: Gran Caimán
  • Spanish: Grand Cayman
  • Swedish: Grand Cayman
  • Ukrainian: Великий Кайман

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About Mapcarta. 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 “Grand Cayman”. Photo: Burtonpe, CC BY-SA 3.0.