Countries
Key facts
- Capital
- George Town
- Region
- Americas, Caribbean
- Population
- 75,844 (2025)
- Area
- 262 km²
- Currency
- Cayman Islands dollar (KYD)
- Languages
- English
- Calling code
- +1-345
- Internet domain
- .ky
- ISO codes
- KY, CYM, 136
- Time zone
- UTC-5:00
- United Nations
- Not a member
- Postal code pattern
- KY#-#### (# = digit, @ = letter)
Land and position
The Cayman Islands covers about 262 square kilometres. By area it ranks 218th among the 250 countries and territories on this site. It is a little smaller than Wallis and Futuna and a little larger than Saint Kitts and Nevis. It has no land border with any other country. Its centre lies at about 20° north, 80° west, in the northern hemisphere.
People
About 75,844 people live in the Cayman Islands (World Bank, 2025). That makes it the 205th most populous of the 246 places on this site with a figure. On average there are 289 people to each square kilometre. About 100 percent of people live in towns and cities (World Bank, 2025). A baby born there can expect to live about 81 years (World Bank, 2024). Languages listed for it: English. A person from the Cayman Islands is called Caymanian.
Money and economy
The currency is the Cayman Islands dollar (code KYD, symbol $). The World Bank puts the size of its economy (GDP) at about US$ 7.77 billion (2024), which is about US$ 104,293 for each person (2024).
Time
The Cayman Islands uses one time zone, UTC-5:00 (America/Cayman). Clocks stay the same all year: there is no daylight saving time.
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Offsets are for January 2026. See Time Zones for a converter.
Largest cities
| City | People |
|---|---|
| George Town | 29,370 |
| West Bay | 15,335 |
City figures are from GeoNames and count the city itself, not the wider urban area. They can be some years old, so use them to see the order of size.
More in Caribbean
Anguilla, Antigua and Barbuda, Aruba, Bahamas, Barbados, British Virgin Islands, Caribbean Netherlands, Cuba. See the whole region.
Figures were collected on 11 November 2026 from the World Bank, GeoNames and the open countries data set. See About and data sources. Borders and names follow those sources and do not express any view on disputed territory.