Providenciales
Key facts
- Islands.name
- Providenciales
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- Turtle Cove Providenciales Beach.jpg
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- Turtle Cove, Providenciales
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- Turks and Caicos Islands - Providenciales.PNG
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- Location of Providenciales within the Turks and Caicos Islands
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- Atlantic Ocean
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- Turks and Caicos Islands#Caribbean
- Islands.archipelago
- Lucayan Archipelago
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- United Kingdom
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- British Overseas Territory
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- Turks and Caicos Islands
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Providenciales (known locally as Provo) is an island in the northwest Caicos Islands, part of the Turks and Caicos Islands, a British Overseas Territory. The island has an area of and had a population of 23,769 as of 2012, the latest date for which an island-by-island census was published by the government. Providenciales is the third largest island in the Turks and Caicos in area, and is home to a majority of the population of the Turks and Caicos Islands.
==Transportation== thumb|right|Providenciales International Airport thumb|right|Turks and Caicos Airport Hotel The island is served by the Providenciales International Airport.