The Cayman Islands are a British Overseas Territory located in the western Caribbean Sea. They consist of three islands: Grand Cayman, Cayman Brac, and Little Cayman. Geographically, the islands lie about 480 miles (approximately 770 km) southwest of Miami, Florida, around 277 miles (445 km) south of Cuba, and about 310 miles (500 km) northwest of Jamaica. Cayman Brac is situated 89 miles northeast of Grand Cayman, and Little Cayman lies 5 miles west of Cayman Brac
. The islands are part of the Greater Antilles and are the peaks of an undersea mountain range called the Cayman Ridge, which extends northeastward from Belize to Cuba. The terrain is mostly low-lying limestone surrounded by coral reefs, with Cayman Brac featuring a central bluff rising to 140 feet (43 meters) above sea level, the highest point in the group
. The capital city is George Town, located on the largest island, Grand Cayman, which is also the most populous and developed of the three islands
. The Cayman Islands are situated east of the Mexican states of Quintana Roo and Yucatán, northeast of Costa Rica, north of Panama, south of Cuba, and west of Jamaica
