KY · Curated travel guide
Grand Cayman, Cayman Brac, Ugland House and 1 more — what each one is, and why it is worth the detour.
Chosen from everything Wikidata knows about Cayman Islands and ranked by how many Wikipedia language editions describe them, which is about as close to "famous" as open data gets.
Island in the Caribbean
The biggest of the three Cayman Islands and home to the capital, George Town. Little Cayman lies approximately 75 miles (121 km) away, to its northeast, and Cayman Brac 90 miles (145 km) away in the same direction.
Photo: NASA, Public domain
Caribbean island, part of the Cayman Islands
One of the Cayman Islands, in the Caribbean. Grand Cayman is about 145 km (90 mi) away to its south-west, and Little Cayman 8 km (5.0 mi) away to its west.
Photo: No machine-readable author provided. CommonsHelper2 Bot assumed (based on copyright claims)., CC BY 2.5
Headquarters of Maples and Calder
A building at 121 South Church Street, George Town, Cayman Islands, occupied by the law firm Maples and Calder. It is the registered office of 40,000 entities, many of them major investment funds, capital market issuers and international joint ventures.
Photo: Legis, CC BY-SA 3.0
Sandbars in the North Sound of Grand Cayman, Cayman Islands
A string of shallow sandbars in Grand Cayman's North Sound, Cayman Islands, and a tourist attraction where southern stingrays gather in large numbers and visitors can touch them and interact with them.
Photo: Kfulgham84, CC BY-SA 3.0
A self-governing British Overseas Territory in the western Caribbean, and with over 90,000 people the most populous of them all. Its 264-square-kilometre (102-square-mile) territory is made up of three islands, Grand Cayman, Little Cayman and Cayman Brac, lying south of Cuba and north-east of Honduras, between Mexico's Yucatán Peninsula and Jamaica.
Officially The Cayman Islands.
Based on the Wikipedia article, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0: the facts are Wikipedia's, the wording is this site's.
This guide lists 4: Grand Cayman, Cayman Brac, Ugland House and Stingray City, Grand Cayman.
By machine, from open data, with no human ranking them and nobody able to pay for a place on the list. Everything Wikidata records in Cayman Islands that is a building, a landform, a protected area or a tourist attraction, has coordinates, a photograph and an English Wikipedia article, is ranked by how many Wikipedia language editions wrote about it. Provinces, cities, airports, stations and stretches of sea shared with the neighbours are filtered out.
English. The currency is KYD.
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