New Providence
New Providence Island is, by far, the most populated island in the Bahamas and the site of the capital Nassau.
Photo: NASA, Public domain.
Essential Destinations
Top destinations include Nassau and Lyford Cay.
New Providence
- Island with 297,000 residents
- …lies at an elevation of 23 feet (7 metres)
- Description: district-island of the Bahamas
- Also known as“New Providence District”“New Providence Island”
- Location
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Latitude of center
25.0333° or 25° 2′ north
Longitude of center
-77.2833° or 77° 17′ west
Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Amharic to Welsh—“New Providence” goes by many names.
- Amharic: “ኑው ፕሮቪደንስ”
- Arabic: “بروفيدانس الجديدة”
- Armenian: “Նյու Փրովիդենս”
- Azerbaijani: “Nyu-Providens”
- Azerbaijani: “Yeni Providence”
- 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”
- Hausa: “New Providence”
- 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”
- Javanese: “New Providence”
- Kannada: “ಹೊಸ ಪ್ರಾವಿಡೆನ್ಸ್”
- Kazakh: “Жаңа Құдіреті”
- Kirghiz: “Жаңы Таануу”
- 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”
- Oromo: “New Providence”
- Panjabi: “ਨਿਊ ਪ੍ਰੋਵਿਡੰਸ”
- Persian: “نیو پراویدنس”
- Persian: “نیو پروویدنس”
- Polish: “New Providence”
- Portuguese: “New Providence”
- Portuguese: “Nova Providência”
- Pushto: “نیو پروویدنس”
- Romanian: “New Providence”
- Russian: “Нью-Провиденс”
- Sinhala: “නිව් ප්රොවිඩෙන්ස්”
- Slovenian: “BS-NP”
- Slovenian: “New Providence”
- Somali: “New Providence”
- Spanish: “Nueva Providencia”
- Swahili: “New Providence”
- Swedish: “New Providence Island”
- Tagalog: “New Providence”
- Tajik: “Провиденси нав”
- Tamil: “நியூ ப்ரொவிடென்ஸ்”
- Tatar: “New Providence”
- Telugu: “న్యూ ప్రావిడెన్స్”
- Thai: “นิว โพรวิเดนซ์”
- Turkish: “New Profidence”
- Ukrainian: “Нью-Провіденс”
- Urdu: “نیو پروویڈنس”
- Uzbek: “New Providence (Bagama)”
- Uzbek: “New Providence”
- Uzbek: “Yangi Providence”
- Vietnamese: “New Providence”
- Welsh: “New Providence”
Bahamas: Highlights
Notable places include Grand Bahama and Eleuthera.
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