New Providence
New Providence Island is, by far, the most populated island in the Bahamas and the site of the capital Nassau.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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Essential Destinations
Top destinations include Nassau and Cable Beach.
Nassau
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Nassau is the capital of The Bahamas. It is the largest city in the Bahamas and its low-rise sprawl dominates the eastern half of New Providence Island. The city's name is locally pronounced like "NAH-sor" but without the R.
Cable Beach
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Cable Beach is a popular tourist resort on the northern coast of New Providence, about halfway between Nassau and the airport.
Lyford Cay
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Lyford Cay is a private gated community located on the western tip of New Providence island in the Bahamas. Considered one of the world's wealthiest and most exclusive neighbourhoods, it contains approximately 450 homes.
New Providence
- Type: island with 228,000 residents
- Description: district-island of the Bahamas
- Also known as: “New Providence District” and “New Providence Island”
- Location: Bahamas, Caribbean, North America
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Welsh—“New Providence” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “بروفيدانس الجديدة”
- Armenian: “Նյու Փրովիդենս”
- Azerbaijani: “Nyu-Providens”
- Basque: “New Providence”
- Bengali: “নিউ প্রভিডেন্স”
- Breton: “New Providence”
- Catalan: “Nova Providència”
- Cebuano: “New Providence Island”
- Chinese: “新普罗维登斯岛”
- Chinese: “新普羅維登斯島”
- Czech: “New Providence”
- Danish: “New Providence”
- Dutch: “New Providence”
- Egyptian Arabic: “بروفيدانس الجديده”
- Esperanto: “Nova Providenco”
- Finnish: “New Providence”
- French: “New Providence”
- French: “Nouvelle-Providence”
- Galician: “Nova Providencia”
- Georgian: “ნიუ-პროვიდენსი”
- German: “BS-NP”
- German: “New Providence Island”
- German: “New Providence”
- Greek: “Νιου Πρόβιντενς”
- Gujarati: “ન્યૂ પ્રોવિડેન્સ”
- Hebrew: “ניו פרובידנס”
- Hindi: “न्यू प्रोविडेंस”
- Icelandic: “New Providence”
- Indonesian: “New Providence”
- Italian: “New Providence”
- Japanese: “ニュー・プロビデンス”
- Japanese: “ニュー・プロビデンス島”
- Japanese: “ニュープロビデンス”
- Japanese: “ニュープロビデンス島”
- Kannada: “ಹೊಸ ಪ್ರಾವಿಡೆನ್ಸ್”
- Korean: “뉴 프로비던스 섬”
- Korean: “뉴 프로비던스”
- Korean: “뉴프로비던스”
- Korean: “뉴프로비던스섬”
- Latvian: “Ņūprovidensa”
- Lithuanian: “Naujasis Providensas”
- Malay: “New Providence”
- Marathi: “न्यू प्रोविडेंस”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “New Providence”
- Norwegian: “New Providence”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Nòva Providéncia”
- Persian: “نیو پراویدنس”
- Polish: “New Providence”
- Portuguese: “New Providence”
- Portuguese: “Nova Providência”
- Romanian: “New Providence”
- Russian: “Нью-Провиденс”
- Sinhala: “නිව් ප්රොවිඩෙන්ස්”
- Slovenian: “BS-NP”
- Slovenian: “New Providence”
- Spanish: “Nueva Providencia”
- Swedish: “New Providence Island”
- Tagalog: “New Providence”
- Tamil: “நியூ ப்ரொவிடென்ஸ்”
- Telugu: “న్యూ ప్రావిడెన్స్”
- Thai: “นิว โพรวิเดนซ์”
- Turkish: “New Profidence”
- Ukrainian: “Нью-Провіденс”
- Urdu: “نیو پروویڈنس”
- Uzbek: “New Providence (Bagama)”
- Uzbek: “New Providence”
- Vietnamese: “New Providence”
- Welsh: “New Providence”
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