Providenciales
Providenciales is an island in the northwest Caicos Islands, part of the Turks and Caicos Islands, a British Overseas Territory. The island has an area of 98 km2 and had a population of 23,769 as of 2012, the latest date for which an island-by-island census was published by the government.| Tap on a place to explore it |
- Type: Town with 32,100 residents
- Description: island in the Turks and Caicos Islands
- Also known as: “Blue Hills”, “Providence Island”, and “Providenciales Island”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Providenciales International Airport and Our Lady of Divine Providence Church, Providenciales.
Providenciales International Airport
Aerodrome
Providenciales International Airport, on the island of Providenciales in the Caicos Islands, is the main international airport serving the Turks and Caicos Islands, a British Overseas Territory of the United Kingdom.
Our Lady of Divine Providence Church, Providenciales
Church
The Our Lady of Divine Providence Church, Providenciales is a Catholic place of worship on Providenciales, an island of Turks and Caicos in the Caribbean.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Wheeland.
Wheeland
Village
Wheeland is a town on Providenciales, Turks and Caicos Islands. As of 2012 it had a population of 3,210. Wheeland is located between Blue Hills and Northwest Point. Wheeland is situated 3½ miles northwest of Providenciales.
Providenciales
- Categories: island, district of the Turks and Caicos Islands, and locality
- Location: Turks and Caicos Islands, Caribbean, North America
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
21.7778° or 21° 46′ 40″ northLongitude
-72.2612° or 72° 15′ 40″ westPopulation
32,100Elevation
39 feet (12 metres)IATA airport code
PLSUnited Nations Location Code
TC PLSOpen location code
77H9QPHQ+4GOpenStreetMap ID
node 3482621890OpenStreetMap feature
place=townGeoNames ID
3576944Wikidata ID
Q1616654
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Wu Chinese—“Providenciales” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “بروفيدنسياليس”
- Bulgarian: “Провидансиал”
- Catalan: “Providenciales”
- Cebuano: “Providenciales Island”
- Chinese: “普罗维登西亚莱斯岛”
- Chinese: “普羅維登西亞萊斯島”
- Czech: “Providenciales”
- Dutch: “Providenciales”
- French: “Île de Providenciales”
- French: “Providenciales”
- Galician: “Providenciales”
- German: “Providenciales”
- Hebrew: “פרובידנסיאלדס”
- Italian: “Providenciales”
- Japanese: “プロビデンシアレス島”
- Japanese: “プロビデンシャレス島”
- Lithuanian: “Providensjalas”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Providenciales”
- Norwegian: “Providenciales”
- Polish: “Providenciales”
- Portuguese: “Providenciales”
- Russian: “Провиденсьялес”
- Serbian: “Провиденсиалес”
- Sinhala: “ප්රොවිඩෙන්සියල්ස්, ටර්ක්ස් සහ කයිකෝස් දූපත්”
- Slovenian: “Providenciales”
- Spanish: “Providenciales”
- Ukrainian: “Провіденсьялес”
- Wu Chinese: “普羅維登西亞萊斯島”
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