Bermuda is a group of low-lying islands located in the
Atlantic Ocean, near the western edge of the Sargasso Sea, roughly 580 nautical
miles (1070 km, 670 mi) east-southeast of Cape Hatteras on the Outer Banks of
North Carolina and roughly 590 nautical miles (1100 km, 690 mi) southeast of
Martha's Vineyard. It is 898.2 nautical miles (1663.5 km, 1033.7 mi) from
Miami, Florida, 667.374 nautical miles (1235.976 km, 768 mi) from Cape Sable
Island, in Nova Scotia, Canada. The island lies due east of Fripp Island, South
Carolina. It has 103 km (64 mi) of coastline. There are two incorporated municipalities
in Bermuda: the City of Hamilton and the Town of St George. Bermuda is divided
into nine parishes, in which there are some localities called villages, such as
Flatts Village and Somerset Village.
Although usually referred to in the singular, the territory
consists of 181 islands, with a total area of 53.3 square kilometres (20.6 sq
mi). The largest island is Main Island, sometimes itself called Bermuda.
Compiling a list of the islands is often complicated, as many have more than
one name (as does the entire archipelago, which has also been known
historically as La Garza, Virgineola, and the Isle of Devils. Somers Isles is
often rendered "Somers Islands", or mistaken for "Summer
Isles"). Despite its small land mass, there has been a tendency for place
names to be repeated; there are, for example, two islands named Long Island,
three bays named Long Bay (on Somerset, Main, and Cooper's Islands), two
Horseshoe Bays (one in Warwick, on the Main Island, the other at Morgan's
Point, formerly Tucker's Island), there are two roads through cuttings called
Khyber Pass (one in Warwick, the other in St. George's Parish), and St George's
Town is located on St George's Island within St George's Parish (each known as
St George's), and there is a parish of Hamilton in addition to the City of
Hamilton (which is in the parish of Pembroke).
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