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Cayman Islands

The Cayman Islands is a British Overseas Territory, in Caribbean. UN Tourism counted 2.3 million international arrivals there in 2019, more visited than 53% of the 199 places with figures, so its stamp in Globestamp is printed in Colour-shift.

Cayman Islands’s stamp in Globestamp
Colour-shift · 2 to 6 million visitors a year
International arrivals
2.3 millionin 2019, UN Tourism
Rank by visitors
94th of 199most visited first
Stamp finish
Colour-shiftrarer than 47%
Area
310 km² (120 sq mi)
Population
65,000Natural Earth estimate
Airports
2with scheduled flights

Does the Cayman Islands count as a country?

It depends on the list. The Cayman Islands is a British Overseas Territory, so it is not one of the UN’s 193 members, but Globestamp’s list of 250 countries and territories counts it on its own. The Travelers’ Century Club counts it as “Cayman Islands”.

ListCounts the Cayman Islands?
UN member states (193)No
Globestamp’s countries and territories (250)Yes
Travelers’ Century Club (330)Yes, as Cayman Islands
European UnionNo
Schengen areaNo

The Cayman Islands belongs to the United Kingdom, but travelers usually count it on its own, because it has its own entry rules, its own flag or its own place on the map. Other places in the same family: Anguilla, Bermuda, British Indian Ocean Territory, British Virgin Islands, Falkland Islands, Gibraltar, Guernsey and Isle of Man.

The Cayman Islands stamp

Every country in Globestamp has its own stamp, drawn after a real entry stamp. Its finish shows how few travelers get there. The Cayman Islands’s is Colour-shift: one colour straight on, another at an angle, the finish for places with 2 to 6 million visitors a year. With 2.3 million international arrivals in 2019, the Cayman Islands is more visited than 53% of the 199 places with figures. See every stamp on the stamp wall, or the rarest on the least-visited countries.

What counts as a visit to the Cayman Islands

The common rule among travelers is that you set foot there: an airport layover usually doesn’t count, and a port where you went ashore does. Globestamp counts the Cayman Islands when one of your photos was taken on its ground, or just off its coast; a photo taken from a plane never counts. Photos only at an airport make a transit stamp in lighter ink, counted only if you count layovers. Read more in how to count the countries you’ve visited.

Airports

The Cayman Islands has 2 airports with scheduled flights, 1 of them large. Each is a dot on Globestamp’s airports layer, and every flight you log adds to how far you’ve flown (try the flight distance calculator).

Questions people ask

Is the Cayman Islands a country?

It depends on the list. The Cayman Islands is a British Overseas Territory, so it is not one of the UN’s 193 members, but Globestamp’s list of 250 countries and territories counts it on its own. The Travelers’ Century Club counts it as “Cayman Islands”.

How many tourists visit the Cayman Islands a year?

UN Tourism (via the World Bank) counted 2,334,000 international arrivals in the Cayman Islands in 2019, the 94th most of the 199 places with figures. Countries count arrivals in different ways (some include day-trippers and cruise passengers), so treat it as a rough rank rather than an exact number of tourists.

How rare is a Cayman Islands stamp in Globestamp?

It is printed in Colour-shift, the finish for places with 2 to 6 million visitors a year, rarer than 47% of the places with figures. The fewer travelers a place receives, the rarer its finish, from plain Ink to Mythic.

Does the Cayman Islands count for the Travelers’ Century Club?

Yes. The Travelers’ Century Club counts it as “Cayman Islands”, one of its 330 destinations.

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