New Providence
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Key facts
- Location
- Atlantic Ocean
- Archipelago
- The Bahamas
- Area
- 207 km (80 sq mi)
- Length
- 34 km (21.1 mi)
- Width
- 11 km (6.8 mi)
- Highest elevation
- 5 m (16 ft)
- Largest settlement
- Nassau
- Population
- 296,522 (2022)
- Pop density
- 1,325.6/km (3433.3/sq mi)
- Ethnic groups
- African 89%, European 8%, Asian and Hispanic 3%
- Time zone
- EST ( UTC-5 )
- Summer dst
- EDT ( UTC-4 )
- Iso code
- BS-NP
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Encyclopedic overview
Enlargeable, detailed map of New Providence
New Providence is the most populous island in the Bahamas. On the eastern side of the island is the national capital city of Nassau; it had a population of 246,329 at the 2010 Census, and a population of 292,522 at the 2022 census. Nearly three quarters of the Bahamas' population lives in New Providence.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “New Providence” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.