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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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  • Type: City with 259,000 residents
  • Description: capital and largest city of the Bahamas
  • Also known as: “City of Nassau”, “Nassau City”, and “Nassau, The Bahamas”

Places of Interest

Highlights include Paradise Island and Nassau Public Library.

Photo: Der-wuppertaler, CC BY-SA 3.0.
is a small island just off of Nassau, . It is dominated by the Las Vegas-style Atlantis resort, which is responsible for an amazing 11% of the Bahamas' GNP.

Library
Photo: Zhangj1079, CC BY-SA 4.0.
The and Museum, in Nassau, is the largest and oldest of five libraries in the Bahamas. The library was founded in 1837, when the Bahamas Society for the Diffusion of Knowledge was combined with a reading society.

Garden
Photo: Charles Pluta, CC BY-SA 2.0.
in Nassau, The Bahamas opened in 1937 though the work of the Jamaican horticulturist, Hedley Vivian Edwards.

Nassau

Latitude
25.0782° or 25° 4′ 42″ north
Longitude
-77.3383° or 77° 20′ 18″ west
Population
259,000
Elevation
16 feet (5 metres)
IATA airport code
NAS
United Nations Location Code
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”
  • Belarusian: “Насаў”
  • Bengali: “নাসাউ”
  • Bosnian: “Nassau”
  • Breton: “Nassau”
  • Bulgarian: “Насау”
  • Catalan: “Nassau”
  • Cebuano: “Nassau”
  • Central Bikol: “Nassau”
  • Chechen: “Нассау”
  • Chinese: “Nassau”
  • Chinese: “拿索”
  • Chinese: “拿骚 (巴哈马)”
  • Chinese: “拿骚”
  • Chinese: “拿騷 (巴哈馬)”
  • Chinese: “拿騷”
  • 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”
  • Greek: “Νάσσαου”
  • 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”
  • 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”
  • 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”
  • 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（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”
  • “Nassau”

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