Mayaguana
Mayaguana is the most southeasterly, least developed, and most unspoiled of the Bahamas' inhabited islands. It is 27 miles long and 6 miles wide at its widest. The population is 300.
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- Type: Island
- Description: island in the Bahamas
- Also known as: “BS-MG”, “Ile Mariguana”, “Mariguana Island”, and “Mayaguara”
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Abraham’s Bay.
Mayaguana
- Category: landform
- Location: Mayaguana District, Bahamas, Caribbean, North America
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
22.3817° or 22° 22′ 54″ north
Longitude
-72.9426° or 72° 56′ 33″ west
Population
208
Elevation
33 feet (10 metres)
IATA airport code
MYG
UN/LOCODE
BS MYG
Open location code
77J993J4+MX
GeoNames ID
Wikidata ID
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Vietnamese—“Mayaguana” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “ماياغوانا”
- Azerbaijani: “Mayaquana”
- Basque: “Mayaguana”
- Bavarian: “Mayaguana”
- Bengali: “মায়াগোনা”
- Catalan: “Mayaguana”
- Cebuano: “Mayaguana Island”
- Chinese: “馬亞瓜納島”
- Chinese: “马亚瓜纳岛”
- Czech: “Mayaguana”
- Danish: “Mayaguana”
- Dutch: “Mayaguana”
- Egyptian Arabic: “ماياجوانا”
- Finnish: “Mayaguana”
- French: “Mayaguana”
- Galician: “Mayaguana”
- German: “Mayaguana”
- Greek: “Μαγιαγκουάνα”
- Gujarati: “માયાગુઆના”
- Hindi: “मायागुआना”
- Indonesian: “Mayaguana”
- Italian: “Mayaguana”
- Japanese: “マヤグアナ島”
- Kannada: “ಮಾಯಗುನಾ”
- Korean: “마야과나섬”
- Latvian: “Majaguana”
- Lithuanian: “Majaguana”
- Malay: “Mayaguana”
- Marathi: “मायागुआना”
- Minangkabau: “Mayaguana”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Mayaguana”
- Persian: “مایاگوانا”
- Polish: “Mayaguana”
- Portuguese: “Mayaguana”
- Russian: “Маягуана”
- Sinhala: “මයගුආනා දිස්ත්රික්කය, බහමාස්”
- Sinhala: “මයගුආනා”
- Slovenian: “Mayaguana”
- Spanish: “Mayaguana”
- Swedish: “Mayaguana Island”
- Tagalog: “Mayaguana”
- Tamil: “மயகுனா”
- Telugu: “మేయాగువానా”
- Thai: “เขตปกครองตนเองมองโกเลียใน”
- Turkish: “Mayaguana”
- Ukrainian: “Маягуана”
- Urdu: “مایاجوانا”
- Urdu: “مایاگوانا”
- Vietnamese: “Mayaguana”
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