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National Museum on Grand Cayman
Financial LInk(s) - Cayman Islands Stock Exchange - Monetary Authority
News Link(s) - Cayman Net News
Area:
100 sq miles (260 sq km)
Population: 39,335
Capital city: George Town on Grand Cayman (pop 16,000)
People: Mixed African and European descent
Language: English
Religion: United Church, Anglican, Baptist, Roman Catholic
Government: British dependency
GDP:
US$930 million
GDP per head: US$24,500
Inflation: 2.7%
Major industries: Tourism, banking, insurance and finance
Major trading partners: USA, UK, Netherlands Antilles,
Trinidad and Tobago, Japan
Diverse islands, dotted with deal-cutting characters with briefcases and cellphones, scuba divers in electric wetsuits and English folk checking the cricket scores over a g&t. The Caymans are colorful: coral reefs, bright orange frogfish, sociable stingrays and reggae beats on the street. They're mellow: leafblowers are noisier than the traffic, and most of the smoke comes from cruise-shippers plugging their faces with Cuban cigars. Hell, even Hell's chilled out in the Caymans. They have long been a haven for bankers and divers, but travelers of all stripes are now flocking there in growing numbers. As a result, resorts and condos have sprung up all over, and you can count on air-con, cold beer and ESPN. To get away from it all (well, except the cold beer), there are lots of places in the Caymans to escape satellite dishes and slickness, not least of them underwater.
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