Grand Bahama
Grand Bahama is the northernmost of the islands of the Bahamas, with the town of West End located 56 nautical miles east of Palm Beach, Florida. It is the third largest island in the Bahamas island chain of approximately 700 islands and 2,400 cays.Photo: Darwinek, Public domain.
Photo: Pietro, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Popular Destinations
Freeport
Photo: qwesy qwesy, CC BY 3.0.
Freeport is a city on Grand Bahama. With a population of 27,000 at the last census in 2000, it was the second most populous city in the Bahamas.
Photo: Jsj1771, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Notable Places in the Area
Lucayan National Park
Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Lucayan National Park is a national park in Grand Bahama, the Bahamas.
Grand Bahama
- Type: Island
- Description: island of the Bahamas
- Category: landform
- Location: Freeport, Grand Bahama, Bahamas, Caribbean, North America
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
26.6333° or 26° 38' northLongitude
-78.4167° or 78° 25' westPopulation
51,800Elevation
5 metres (16 feet)IATA airport code
GBIOpen Location Code
77R3JHMM+88GeoNames ID
3572309Wikidata ID
Q866345Grand Bahama Satellite Map
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Also Known As
- Arabic: باهاما العظمى
- Arabic: باهاما الكبرى
- Arabic: جراند باهاما
- Arabic: غراند بهاما
- Armenian: Մեծ Բահամա
- Azerbaijani: Böyük Bahama
- Basque: Bahama Handia
- Catalan: Grand Bahama Island
- Cebuano: Grand Bahama Island
- Chinese: 大巴哈馬島
- Chinese: 大巴哈马岛
- Czech: Grand Bahama
- Czech: Velká Bahama
- Dutch: Grand Bahama
- Egyptian Arabic: باهاما الكبرى
- English: Grand Bahama Island
- English: Great Bahama Island
- Esperanto: Granda Bahamo
- Faroese: Grand Bahama
- Finnish: Grand Bahama
- French: Grand Bahama
- Galician: Gran Bahama
- Georgian: დიდი ბაჰამა
- German: Grand Bahama
- Greek: Γκραντ Μπαχάμα
- Hebrew: גרנד בהאמה
- Italian: Grand Bahama
- Japanese: グランド・バハマ島
- Korean: 그랜드 바하마
- Korean: 그랜드바하마
- Korean: 그랜드 바하마 섬
- Korean: 그랜드바하마섬
- Lithuanian: Didžioji Bahama
- Norwegian Bokmål: Grand Bahama
- Norwegian Nynorsk: Grand Bahama
- Persian: گرند باهاما
- Polish: Grand Bahama
- Polish: Wielka Bahama
- Portuguese: Grande Bahama
- Russian: Большая Багама
- Russian: Большой Багама
- Serbian: Velika Bahama
- Serbian: Велика Бахама
- Serbian: Велики Бахами
- Slovak: Grand Bahama
- Spanish: Gran Bahama
- Swedish: Grand Bahama
- Swedish: Grand Bahama Island
- Turkish: Büyük Bahama
- Turkish: Grand Bahama
- Ukrainian: Великий Багама
- Urdu: گرینڈ بہاماس
- Ile Bahama
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About Mapcarta. Thanks to Mapbox for providing amazing maps. Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, excluding photos, directions and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipdia page Grand Bahama. Photo: Pietro, CC BY-SA 3.0.