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Key facts
- Location
- Atlantic Ocean
- Archipelago
- The Bahamas
- Major islands
- North Andros , Mangrove Cay , South Andros
- Area
- 5,957 km (2,300 sq mi)
- Length
- 167 km (103.8 mi)
- Width
- 64 km (39.8 mi)
- Largest settlement
- Andros Town (pop. 2,318 )
- Population
- 7,695 (2022)
- Pop density
- 1.29/km (3.34/sq mi)
- Ethnic groups
- Blacks 85%, Whites 12%, Asian 3%
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Wikidata facts
- Area
- 1448
- Elevation
- 7
- Image
- Andros island2978.jpg
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- Commons category
- Andros, Bahamas
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Andros is an archipelago in The Bahamas. Politically considered a single island, Andros in total has an area greater than all the other 700 Bahamian islands combined. The land area of Andros consists of hundreds of small islets and cays connected by mangrove estuaries and tidal swamplands, together with three major islands: North Andros, Mangrove Cay, and South Andros. The three main islands are separated by bights, estuaries that divide the island from east to west. Andros is 167 kilometres (104 mi) long by 64 km (40 mi) wide at the widest point. It is about 50 kilometres (31 mi) west of the capital city Nassau in New Providence, separated by the deep channel known as the Tongue of the Ocean. As of 2022, Andros has a population of approximately 8,000 people.
The Andros Barrier Reef, the sixth-longest coral reef in the world, runs along the eastern side of the island for about 225 km (140 mi), averaging a distance of 2–3 km (1–2 mi) from the shore. The island has the world's largest collection of blue holes, water-filled entrances to underwater cave systems. The Great Bahama Bank is off of the island's west coast.