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Cayman Islands: map and facts

The Cayman Islands is in the Caribbean. It has 75,844 people (2025). It covers 264 km². That is about 287 people per km². Its highest point is The Bluff, at 43 m.

The Cayman Islands and the sea around it. The triangle marks its highest point, The Bluff; the circle marks its capital, George Town. Boundaries follow India’s official position.

Facts

Population: 75,844 (2025, World Bank)
Area: 264 km² (2024, World Bank). This figure covers a different area from the one this map shows: as drawn, about 310 km².
Capital: George Town
Highest point: The Bluff, 43 m (Wikidata)
Forest: 53% of the land (2024, World Bank)

Mountains and landscapes

Its highest peaks:

The Bluff: 43 m (its highest point)

Land

Land cover seen from satellites (NASA MODIS, 2024): wetland 43.9%, water 12.5%, wooded savanna 11.7%, evergreen broadleaf forest 9.9%, savanna 7.8%, towns and cities 5.8%.

Landforms, worked out from the height of the land (USGS GMTED2010): plains 100%.

Forests covered 53% of its land in 2024, down from 54.7% in 1990 (World Bank).

Neighbours

The Cayman Islands has no land borders on this map.

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Sources

India’s boundaries are drawn according to India’s official position, simplified for small-scale maps (data: Natural Earth, India view). Each figure shows its year and source; some are rounded. Data release 2026.2.

Natural Earth (naturalearthdata.com), public domain. Boundaries follow India's official position (Natural Earth's India point of view). Terms
GMTED2010 courtesy of the U.S. Geological Survey (Danielson and Gesch 2011, USGS Open-File Report 2011-1073). Terms
Friedl, M., Sulla-Menashe, D. (2022). MODIS/Terra+Aqua Land Cover Type Yearly L3 Global 500m SIN Grid V061. NASA EOSDIS Land Processes DAAC. doi:10.5067/MODIS/MCD12Q1.061. Terms
The World Bank: World Development Indicators, Population, total (SP.POP.TOTL): UN Population Division, national statistical offices (2025 data, retrieved 2026-10-17). CC BY 4.0. Rounded by Make Me Smarter. Terms
The World Bank: World Development Indicators, Surface area (AG.SRF.TOTL.K2): FAO (2024 data, retrieved 2026-10-17). CC BY 4.0. Terms
The World Bank: World Development Indicators, Forest area (% of land area) (AG.LND.FRST.ZS): FAO, FAOSTAT (2024 data, retrieved 2026-10-17). CC BY 4.0. Rounded by Make Me Smarter. Terms
Wikidata (CC0): names, capitals, peak heights and river lengths, checked by Make Me Smarter. Terms
Landforms worked out by Make Me Smarter from GMTED2010.

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