Nassau

Nassau is the capital of The . It is the largest city in the Bahamas and its low-rise sprawl dominates the eastern half of . The city's name is locally pronounced like "NAH-sor" but without the R.
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  • City with about 228,000 residents
  • …lies at an elevation of around 110 feet (30 metres)
  • …has the IATA airport code NAS
  • Description: capital and largest city of the Bahamas
  • Also known as
    “City of Nassau”
    “Nassau City”
    “Nassau, Bahamas”

Places of Interest

Highlights include Paradise Island and Nassau Public Library.
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is a small island just off of Nassau, .
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The and Museum, in Nassau…
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is a British-colonial era fort built…

Nassau

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Latitude
25.0782° or 25° 4′ 42″ north
Longitude
-77.3383° or 77° 20′ 18″ west
UN/LOCODE
BS NAS
Open location code
77Q43MH6+7M
Open­Street­Map ID
node 115664268
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
3571824
Wiki­data ID
Q2467

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In Other Languages

From Afrikaans to Zulu—“Nassau” goes by many names.
  • Afrikaans: “Nassau”
  • Albanian: “Nassau”
  • Amharic: “ናሶ”
  • Arabic: “جزيرة ناسو”
  • Arabic: “ناساو”
  • Arabic: “ناسو (جزيرة)”
  • Arabic: “ناسو”
  • Aragonese: “Nassau”
  • Armenian: “Նասաու”
  • Arpitan: “Nassau”
  • Asturian: “Nasáu”
  • Asturian: “Nassau”
  • Aymara: “Nassau”
  • Azerbaijani: “Nassau”
  • Balinese: “Nassau, Bahama”
  • Basque: “Nassau”
  • Belarusian: “Насау (Багамскія Астравы)”
  • Belarusian: “Насау”
  • Bengali: “নাসাউ”
  • Bosnian: “Nassau”
  • Breton: “Nassau”
  • Bulgarian: “Насау”
  • Catalan: “Nassau”
  • Cebuano: “Nassau”
  • Central Bikol: “Nassau”
  • Central Kurdish: “ناساو، بەھاما”
  • Chechen: “Нассау”
  • Chinese: “拿索”
  • Chinese: “拿騷 (巴哈馬)”
  • Chinese: “拿騷”
  • Chinese: “拿骚 (巴哈马)”
  • Chinese: “拿骚”
  • Croatian: “Nassau”
  • Czech: “Nassau”
  • Danish: “Nassau”
  • Dutch: “Nassau”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “ناساو”
  • Esperanto: “Nasaŭo”
  • Estonian: “Nassau”
  • Faroese: “Nassau”
  • Fiji Hindi: “Nassau”
  • Finnish: “Nassau”
  • French: “Nassau”
  • French: “ville de Nassau”
  • Galician: “Nassau, Bahamas”
  • Galician: “Nassau”
  • Georgian: “ნასაუ”
  • German: “Nassau”
  • Greek: “Νασσάου”
  • Gujarati: “નાસાઉ”
  • Haitian: “Naso”
  • Hakka Chinese: “Nassau”
  • Hausa: “Nassau”
  • Hebrew: “נסאו”
  • Hindi: “नासाउ, बहामास”
  • Hindi: “नासाउ”
  • Hungarian: “Nassau”
  • Icelandic: “Nassá”
  • Ido: “Nassau”
  • Indonesian: “Nassau, Bahama”
  • Indonesian: “Nassau”
  • Interlingua: “Nassau”
  • Irish: “Nassau, na Bahámaí”
  • Irish: “Nassau”
  • Italian: “Nassau”
  • Japanese: “ナッソー”
  • Javanese: “Nassau”
  • Kabyle: “Nassau”
  • Kannada: “ನಸ್ಸಾವು”
  • Karekare: “Nassàu”
  • Kazakh: “Нассау (Багам аралдары)”
  • Kazakh: “Нассау”
  • Kirghiz: “Нассау”
  • Korean: “나사우”
  • Korean: “나소”
  • Kotava: “Nassau”
  • Latin: “Nassovia”
  • Latvian: “Naso”
  • Ligurian: “Nassau”
  • Lithuanian: “Nasau”
  • Livvi: “Nassau”
  • Lombard: “Nassau”
  • Luxembourgish: “Nassau”
  • Macedo-Romanian: “Nassau”
  • Macedonian: “Насау”
  • Malagasy: “Nassau, Bahamasy”
  • Malagasy: “Nassau”
  • Malay: “Nassau, Bahamas”
  • Malay: “Nassau”
  • Malayalam: “നാസോ”
  • Maltese: “Nassau (Bahamas)”
  • Maltese: “Nassau”
  • Marathi: “नासाउ”
  • Min Dong Chinese: “Nassau”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Nassau”
  • Minangkabau: “Nassau, Bahama”
  • Mingrelian: “ნასაუ”
  • Moroccan Arabic: “ناساو”
  • Northern Frisian: “Nassau (Bahaamas)”
  • Northern Frisian: “Nassau”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Nassau (Bahamas)”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Nassau”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Nassau på Bahamas”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Nassau”
  • Norwegian: “Nassau”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Nassau (Bahamas)”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Nassau”
  • Old English (ca. 450-1100): “Næssā, Bahamas”
  • Ossetian: “Нассау”
  • Panjabi: “ਨਸਾਊ”
  • Papiamento: “Nassau”
  • Persian: “ناسائو”
  • Piemontese: “Nassau”
  • Pitcairn-Norfolk: “Nasau”
  • Polish: “Nassau”
  • Portuguese: “Nassau”
  • Pushto: “ناسایو”
  • Quechua: “Nassau”
  • Romanian: “Nassau, Bahamas”
  • Romanian: “Nassau”
  • Romansh: “Nassau”
  • Russian: “Нассау”
  • Santali: “ᱱᱟᱥᱟᱣ”
  • Sardinian: “Nassau”
  • Scots: “Nassau, Bahamas”
  • Scots: “Nassau”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “Nassau”
  • Serbian: “Насау”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Nassau”
  • Shona: “Nassau”
  • Silesian: “Nassau”
  • Sindhi: “ناساؤ، بهاماس”
  • Sinhala: “නසාවූ”
  • Slovak: “Nassau”
  • Slovenian: “Nassau, Bahami”
  • Slovenian: “Nassau”
  • Spanish: “Ciudad de Nasáu”
  • Spanish: “Nasáu”
  • Spanish: “Nassau”
  • Swahili: “Nassau”
  • Swedish: “Nassau, Bahamas”
  • Swedish: “Nassau”
  • Tagalog: “Nassau”
  • Tajik: “Нассау”
  • Tamil: “நச்சாவ், பஹாமாஸ்”
  • Tamil: “நேசோ”
  • Telugu: “నసావ్”
  • Thai: “แนสซอ”
  • Tibetan: “ན་སའོ།”
  • Turkish: “Nassau”
  • Udmurt: “Нассау (Багама шормуӵъёс)”
  • Udmurt: “Нассау”
  • Ukrainian: “Нассау”
  • Upper Sorbian: “Nassau”
  • Urdu: “نساؤ”
  • Uzbek: “Nassau”
  • Uzbek: “Nasso”
  • Venetian: “Nassau”
  • Veps: “Nassau”
  • Vietnamese: “Nassau, Bahamas”
  • Vietnamese: “Nassau”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Nassau, Bahamas”
  • Welsh: “Nassau, Bahamas”
  • Welsh: “Nassau”
  • Western Frisian: “Nassau”
  • Wu Chinese: “拿騷（巴哈馬）”
  • Wu Chinese: “拿騷”
  • Yakut: “Нассау”
  • Yoruba: “Nassau, Àwọn Bàhámà”
  • Yue Chinese: “拿騷 (巴哈馬)”
  • Yue Chinese: “拿騷”
  • Zulu: “i-Nassau”

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