- The primary city on New Providence Island in the Bahamas, Nassau offers everything from British-influenced cricket games to Riviera-style casinos.
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Nassau is the capital of the Bahamas, on the northeastern edge of New Providence Island. Today, with a population of 200,000, Nassau contains nearly 70 percent of the population of the Bahamas. However, it's still quite low-rise and laid back.
Take a walk around Old Town, an interesting mixture of abandoned buildings and bright Caribbean structures. It doesn't take long to get away from the over-scrubbed tourist areas in the very center. Walk 10 minutes uphill to the pink Parliament Building, which still has a statue of an enthroned Queen Victoria out front. The Pirate Museum offers recreations of a pirate town, a pirate ship and a pirate battle, with a few real artifacts mixed in. It’s cheesy, but fun.
Nassau is a spring break Mecca for good reason. The nightly club scene can be rowdy.
Facts About Nassau
- Population: 227,940
- Time Zone: America/Nassau
- Languages: English
- Currency: BSD
- Airports
- Nassau International (NAS) [Main]
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