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is provided as an overview of and topical guide to the Cayman Islands:

Cayman Islands The Cayman Islands () is a self-governing British Overseas Territory—the largest by population in the western Caribbean Sea. The territory comprises the three islands of Grand Cayman, Cayman Brac and Little Cayman, which are located to the ...

–

British overseas territory The British Overseas Territories (BOTs), also known as the United Kingdom Overseas Territories (UKOTs), are fourteen dependent territory, territories with a constitutional and historical link with the United Kingdom. They are the last remna ...

located in the western

Caribbean Sea The Caribbean Sea ( es, Mar Caribe; french: Mer des Caraïbes; ht, Lanmè Karayib; jam, Kiaribiyan Sii; nl, Caraïbische Zee; pap, Laman Karibe) is a sea of the Atlantic Ocean in the tropics of the Western Hemisphere. It is bounded by Mexico ...

, comprising the islands of Grand Cayman,

Cayman Brac Cayman Brac is an island that is part of the Cayman Islands. It lies in the Caribbean Sea about north-east of Grand Cayman and east of Little Cayman. It is about long, with an average width of . Its terrain is the most prominent of the thre ...

, and

Little Cayman Little Cayman is one of three Islands that make up the Cayman Islands. It is located in the Caribbean Sea, approximately 60 miles (96 km) northeast of East End, Grand Cayman and five miles (8 km) west of West End, Cayman Brac. Little C ...

. It is a tax haven financial centre and one of the many scuba diving destinations in the Caribbean.

General reference

image:Cayman Islands (detail).jpg, An enlargeable map of the

* International Phonetic Alphabet, Pronunciation: /ðʉ ˈkaɪ.mɨn ˈaɪ.ləndz/ * Common English country name: The

* Official English country name: The

* Common

endonym An endonym (from Greek: , 'inner' + , 'name'; also known as autonym) is a common, ''native'' name for a geographical place, group of people, individual person, language or dialect, meaning that it is used inside that particular place, group, ...

(s): * Official endonym(s): * Adjectival(s): Caymanian *

Demonym A demonym (; ) or gentilic () is a word that identifies a group of people (inhabitants, residents, natives) in relation to a particular place. Demonyms are usually derived from the name of the place (hamlet, village, town, city, region, province, ...

(s): * ISO country codes: KY, CYM, 136 * ISO region codes: See ISO 3166-2:KY *

Internet The Internet (or internet) is the global system of interconnected computer networks that uses the Internet protocol suite (TCP/IP) to communicate between networks and devices. It is a '' network of networks'' that consists of private, pub ...

country code top-level domain A country code top-level domain (ccTLD) is an Internet top-level domain generally used or reserved for a country, sovereign state, or dependent territory identified with a country code. All ASCII ccTLD identifiers are two letters long, and all t ...

.ky .ky is the Internet country code top-level domain (ccTLD) for the Cayman Islands. The code was chosen as other possible options had already been allocated. Registration was limited to residents and registered companies in the Cayman Islands with ...

Geography of the Cayman Islands

Geography of the Cayman Islands * The Cayman Islands are: a

of three

island An island (or isle) is an isolated piece of habitat that is surrounded by a dramatically different habitat, such as water. Very small islands such as emergent land features on atolls can be called islets, skerries, cays or keys. An island ...

s * Location: **

Northern Hemisphere The Northern Hemisphere is the half of Earth that is north of the Equator. For other planets in the Solar System, north is defined as being in the same celestial hemisphere relative to the invariable plane of the solar system as Earth's Nort ...

and

Western Hemisphere The Western Hemisphere is the half of the planet Earth that lies west of the prime meridian (which crosses Greenwich, London, United Kingdom) and east of the antimeridian. The other half is called the Eastern Hemisphere. Politically, the term We ...

***

North America North America is a continent in the Northern Hemisphere and almost entirely within the Western Hemisphere. It is bordered to the north by the Arctic Ocean, to the east by the Atlantic Ocean, to the southeast by South America and the Car ...

(though not on the mainland) **

Atlantic Ocean The Atlantic Ocean is the second-largest of the world's five oceans, with an area of about . It covers approximately 20% of Earth's surface and about 29% of its water surface area. It is known to separate the " Old World" of Africa, Europe ...

***

North Atlantic The Atlantic Ocean is the second-largest of the world's five oceans, with an area of about . It covers approximately 20% of Earth's surface and about 29% of its water surface area. It is known to separate the "Old World" of Africa, Europe and ...

****

Caribbean The Caribbean (, ) ( es, El Caribe; french: la Caraïbe; ht, Karayib; nl, De Caraïben) is a region of the Americas that consists of the Caribbean Sea, its islands (some surrounded by the Caribbean Sea and some bordering both the Caribbean Se ...

Time zone A time zone is an area which observes a uniform standard time for legal, Commerce, commercial and social purposes. Time zones tend to follow the boundaries between Country, countries and their Administrative division, subdivisions instead of ...

: UTC-05 ** Extreme points of the Cayman Islands *** High: The Bluff on

*** Low:

0 m ** Land boundaries: ''none'' ** Coastline: 160 km * Population of the Cayman Islands: 62,000(2007) - 208th most populous country * * Area of the Cayman Islands: - 207th largest country * Atlas of the Cayman Islands

Environment of the Cayman Islands

An enlargeable satellite image of Grand Cayman Island * Climate of the Cayman Islands * Renewable energy in the Cayman Islands * Geology of the Cayman Islands * Protected areas of the Cayman Islands ** Biosphere reserves in the Cayman Islands ** National parks of the Cayman Islands * Wildlife of the Cayman Islands ** Fauna of the Cayman Islands ***

Birds of the Cayman Islands Birds are a group of warm-blooded vertebrates constituting the class Aves (), characterised by feathers, toothless beaked jaws, the laying of hard-shelled eggs, a high metabolic rate, a four-chambered heart, and a strong yet lightweight ...

*** Mammals of the Cayman Islands

Natural geographic features of the Cayman Islands

* Fjords of the Cayman Islands * Glaciers of the Cayman Islands * Islands of the Cayman Islands * Lakes of the Cayman Islands * Mountains of the Cayman Islands ** Volcanoes in the Cayman Islands * Rivers of the Cayman Islands ** Waterfalls of the Cayman Islands * Valleys of the Cayman Islands * World Heritage Sites in the Cayman Islands: None

Regions of the Cayman Islands

Ecoregions of the Cayman Islands

List of ecoregions in the Cayman Islands

Administrative divisions of the Cayman Islands

None

= Municipalities of the Cayman Islands

= *

Capital Capital may refer to: Common uses * Capital city, a municipality of primary status ** List of national capital cities * Capital letter, an upper-case letter Economics and social sciences * Capital (economics), the durable produced goods used f ...

of the Cayman Islands: George Town * Cities of the Cayman Islands

Demography of the Cayman Islands

Demographics of the Cayman Islands This is a demography of the population of the Cayman Islands including population density, ethnicity, religious affiliations and other aspects of the population. Population With its success in the tourism and financial service industries, ...

Government and politics of the Cayman Islands

Politics of the Cayman Islands The politics of the Cayman Islands takes place within a framework of parliamentary democracy, within the confines of the Government of the Cayman Islands. Constitutional Modernisation Constitutional Modernisation has come to the forefront of poli ...

Form of government A government is the system or group of people governing an organized community, generally a state. In the case of its broad associative definition, government normally consists of legislature, executive, and judiciary. Government is a ...

parliamentary A parliamentary system, or parliamentarian democracy, is a system of democracy, democratic government, governance of a sovereign state, state (or subordinate entity) where the Executive (government), executive derives its democratic legitimacy ...

representative democratic Representative democracy, also known as indirect democracy, is a type of democracy where elected people represent a group of people, in contrast to direct democracy. Nearly all modern Western-style democracies function as some type of represe ...

overseas territory *

of the Cayman Islands: George Town * Elections in the Cayman Islands *

Political parties in the Cayman Islands Politics (from , ) is the set of activities that are associated with making decisions in groups, or other forms of power relations among individuals, such as the distribution of resources or status. The branch of social science that studies ...

Branches of the government of the Cayman Islands

Government of the Cayman Islands The Cayman Islands is a parliamentary representative democratic dependency. As a British Overseas Territories, Charles III is the head of state. The Premier of the Cayman Islands is the head of government. Executive power is exercised by the go ...

Executive branch of the government of the Cayman Islands

Head of state A head of state (or chief of state) is the public persona who officially embodies a state Foakes, pp. 110–11 " he head of statebeing an embodiment of the State itself or representatitve of its international persona." in its unity and l ...

Monarch of the United Kingdom The monarchy of the United Kingdom, commonly referred to as the British monarchy, is the constitutional monarchy, constitutional form of government by which a hereditary monarchy, hereditary sovereign reigns as the head of state of the United ...

, King Charles III ** Monarch's representative: Governor of the Cayman Islands *

Head of government The head of government is the highest or the second-highest official in the executive branch of a sovereign state, a federated state, or a self-governing colony, autonomous region, or other government who often presides over a cabinet, a gro ...

: Premier of the Cayman Islands * Cabinet of the Cayman Islands

Legislative branch of the government of the Cayman Islands

Legislative Assembly of the Cayman Islands The Parliament of the Cayman Islands is the unicameral legislature of the British Overseas Territory of the Cayman Islands. It is composed of 21 members; 19 elected members for a four-year term and two members ''ex officio''. The Governor may a ...

(

unicameral Unicameralism (from ''uni''- "one" + Latin ''camera'' "chamber") is a type of legislature, which consists of one house or assembly, that legislates and votes as one. Unicameral legislatures exist when there is no widely perceived need for multic ...

)

Judicial branch of the government of the Cayman Islands

Court system of the Cayman Islands *

Privy Council of the United Kingdom The Privy Council (PC), officially His Majesty's Most Honourable Privy Council, is a formal body of advisers to the sovereign of the United Kingdom. Its membership mainly comprises senior politicians who are current or former members of e ...

- the highest court to appeal to ** Court of Appeal of the Cayman Islands - the highest court on the islands *** Grand Court of the Cayman Islands ****

Chief Justice of the Cayman Islands The Cayman Islands is a parliamentary representative democratic dependency. As a British Overseas Territories, Charles III is the head of state. The Premier of the Cayman Islands is the head of government. Executive power is exercised by the ...

Foreign relations of the Cayman Islands

Foreign relations of the Cayman Islands * Diplomatic missions in the Cayman Islands * Diplomatic missions of the Cayman Islands * Immigration to the Cayman Islands

International organization membership

The government of the Cayman Islands is a member of: *

Caribbean Community and Common Market The Caribbean Community (CARICOM or CC) is an intergovernmental organization that is a political and economic union of 15 member states (14 nation-states and one dependency) throughout the Caribbean. They have primary objectives to promote econom ...

(Caricom) (associate) * Caribbean Development Bank (CDB) *

International Criminal Police Organization The International Criminal Police Organization (ICPO; french: link=no, Organisation internationale de police criminelle), commonly known as Interpol ( , ), is an international organization that facilitates worldwide police cooperation and cri ...

(Interpol) (subbureau) *

International Olympic Committee The International Olympic Committee (IOC; french: link=no, Comité international olympique, ''CIO'') is a non-governmental sports organisation based in Lausanne, Switzerland. It is constituted in the form of an association under the Swiss ...

(IOC) *

United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization is a specialized agency of the United Nations (UN) aimed at promoting world peace and security through international cooperation in education, arts, sciences and culture. It ...

(UNESCO) (associate) *

Universal Postal Union The Universal Postal Union (UPU, french: link=no, Union postale universelle), established by the Treaty of Bern of 1874, is a specialized agency of the United Nations (UN) that coordinates postal policies among member nations, in addition to t ...

(UPU) *

World Federation of Trade Unions The World Federation of Trade Unions (WFTU) is an international federation of trade unions established in 1945. Founded in the immediate aftermath of World War Two, the organization built on the pre-war legacy of the International Federation of ...

(WFTU)

Law and order in the Cayman Islands

Law of the Cayman Islands The law of the Cayman Islands is a combination of common law and statute, and is based heavily upon English law. Law in the Cayman Islands tends to be a combination of the very old and the very new. As a leading offshore financial centre, t ...

* Constitution of the Cayman Islands * Crime in the Cayman Islands * Human rights in the Cayman Islands ** LGBT rights in the Cayman Islands ** Freedom of religion in the Cayman Islands * Law enforcement in the Cayman Islands

Military of the Cayman Islands

Military of the Cayman Islands * Command ** Commander-in-chief *** Ministry of Defence of the Cayman Islands * Forces ** Army of the Cayman Islands ** Navy of the Cayman Islands ** Air Force of the Cayman Islands ** Special forces of the Cayman Islands * Military history of the Cayman Islands * Military ranks of the Cayman Islands

Local government in the Cayman Islands

History of the Cayman Islands

History of the Cayman Islands * Timeline of the history of the Cayman Islands * Portal:Current events/the Cayman Islands, Current events of the Cayman Islands * Military history of the Cayman Islands

Culture of the Cayman Islands

Culture of the Cayman Islands * Architecture of the Cayman Islands * Cuisine of the Cayman Islands * Festivals in the Cayman Islands * Languages of the Cayman Islands * Media in the Cayman Islands * National symbols of the Cayman Islands ** Coat of arms of the Cayman Islands ** Flag of the Cayman Islands ** National anthem of the Cayman Islands * People of the Cayman Islands * Public holidays in the Cayman Islands * List of records of the Cayman Islands, Records of the Cayman Islands * Religion in the Cayman Islands ** Christianity in the Cayman Islands ** Hinduism in the Cayman Islands ** Islam in the Cayman Islands ** Judaism in the Cayman Islands ** Sikhism in the Cayman Islands * World Heritage Sites in the Cayman Islands: None

Art in the Cayman Islands

* Art in the Cayman Islands * Cinema of the Cayman Islands * Literature of the Cayman Islands * Music of the Cayman Islands * Television in the Cayman Islands * Theatre in the Cayman Islands

Sports in the Cayman Islands

Sports in the Cayman Islands * Football in the Cayman Islands * Cayman Islands at the Olympics * Cayman Karting

Economy and infrastructure of the Cayman Islands

Economy of the Cayman Islands * List of countries by GDP (nominal), Economic rank, by nominal GDP (2007): 151st (one hundred and fifty first) * Agriculture in the Cayman Islands * Banking in the Cayman Islands ** National Bank of the Cayman Islands * Communications in the Cayman Islands ** Internet in the Cayman Islands * List of companies of the Cayman Islands, Companies of the Cayman Islands * Currency, Currency of the Cayman Islands: Cayman Islands dollar, Dollar **ISO 4217: KYD * Energy in the Cayman Islands ** Energy policy of the Cayman Islands ** Oil industry in the Cayman Islands * Mining in the Cayman Islands * Real estate in the Cayman Islands * Cayman Islands Stock Exchange * Tourism in the Cayman Islands * Transport in the Cayman Islands ** List of airports in the Cayman Islands, Airports in the Cayman Islands

Education in the Cayman Islands

References

External links

Cayman Islands Government

Cayman Islands Financial Services

Cayman Travel Guide
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Cayman Islands
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