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Bahamas

The Bahamas, or The Bahama Islands, is an archipelago consisting of many islands in the Atlantic Ocean east of . The country is made up of about 2,000 islands if you include the cays, which are small islands that are formed on coral reefs.
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Essential Destinations

Top destinations include Nassau and Grand Bahama.

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is the capital of The Bahamas. It is the largest city in the Bahamas and its low-rise sprawl dominates the eastern half of . The city's name is locally pronounced like "NAH-sor" but without the R.

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is the northernmost of the islands of the Bahamas. It is the third largest island in the Bahamas island chain of approximately 700 islands and 2,400 cays.

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is an island in Bahamas. The long, thin island has wide rolling pink sand beaches and large outcrops of ancient coral reefs. Its population was approximately 11,000 in 2017. The principal industry of the island is tourism.

Destinations to Discover

Explore places such as New Providence and Andros.

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Island is, by far, the most populated island in the Bahamas and the site of the capital .

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is an archipelago of The Bahamas, split into three main islands: North , Mangrove Cay and South .

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is a district of the Bahamas, consisting of over 360 islands. The largest of the cays, and the only one with any significant population, is , which is 37 mi in length. The islands of the chain are also collectively referred to as the Exumas.

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The are a group of islands in the Bahamas east of . Great Abaco and Little Abaco are the primary islands. Disney's privately-owned "Castaway Cay" is here. The took a beating from Hurricane Dorian in 2019.

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is located in the Bahamas, and is one of its districts. also has the nation's highest point, . It rises to 63 metres and is topped by a monastery called The Hermitage.

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is a district of the Bahamas and consists of two main islands located 50 miles east of .

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is in the Southern Bahamas. It is one of many Family Islands or Out Islands. With rolling hills and long beaches, is known as the most scenic island in the Bahamas. It is about 130 km long and 6 km wide at its widest point.

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is the most southeasterly, least developed, and most unspoiled of the Bahamas' inhabited islands. It is 27 miles long and 6 miles wide at its widest. The population is 300.

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The are a chain of islands and a district of The Bahamas, covering about thirty square miles. The consist of about thirty and over one hundred small islands or cays, often referred to as "The Fish Bowl of The Bahamas." They have a population of 807, most of whom are on .

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is an island and district of the Bahamas. It measures 30 square miles in area, it is located at Lat: N23 42' 30" - Long: W 74 50' 00". It has many rolling hills that rise to about 120 feet.

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is a small island just off of , Bahamas. It is dominated by the Las Vegas-style Atlantis resort, which is responsible for an amazing 11% of the Bahamas' GNP.

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is a five-mile-long cay in the of The Bahamas. Originally populated by British loyalists fleeing the newly independent United States of America in 1785, it has survived on fishing, boat building, and salvage.

Bahamas

Latitude of center
24.77° or 24° 46′ 12″ north
Longitude of center
-76.95° or 76° 57′ west
Population
354,000
Area
5,382 miles² (13,940 km²)
Elevation
66 feet (20 metres)
Capital
Currency
Dollar (BSD)
Phone code
.bs
Internet domain
+1-242
Open­Street­Map ID
node 249399296
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­country
Geo­Names ID
3572887
Wiki­data ID
Q778
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In Other Languages

From Abkhazian to Zulu—“Bahamas” goes by many names.
  • Abkhazian: “Баҳаматәи Адгьылбжьахақәа Реимабзиара”
  • Abkhazian: “Баҳаматәи Адгьылбжьахақәа”
  • Achinese: “Bahama”
  • Afrikaans: “Bahamas”
  • Akan: “Bahama”
  • Albanian: “Bahama”
  • Albanian: “Bahamasi”
  • Albanian: “Bahamet”
  • Amharic: “ባሃማስ”
  • Amis: “Bahamas”
  • Angika: “बहामास”
  • Arabic: “الباهاما”
  • Arabic: “الباهاماس”
  • Arabic: “البهاما”
  • Arabic: “باهاماس”
  • Arabic: “جزر البهاما”
  • Aragonese: “Bahamas”
  • Armenian: “Բահամյան կղզիներ”
  • Armenian: “Բահամյան Կղզիներ”
  • Armenian: “Բահամներ”
  • Armenian: “Բահամները”
  • Arpitan: “Bahamas”
  • Assamese: “বাহামাছ”
  • Asturian: “Les Bahames”
  • Atayal: “Bahamas”
  • Aymara: “Bahamas”
  • Azerbaijani: “Baham adaları”
  • Azerbaijani: “Bahamalar”
  • Balinese: “Bahama”
  • Bambara: “Bahamasi”
  • Bashkir: “Багам Утрауҙары”
  • Basque: “Bahamak”
  • Bavarian: “Bahamas”
  • Belarusian: “Багамскія астравы”
  • Belarusian: “Багамскія Астравы”
  • Belarusian: “Бага́мскія Астравы́”
  • Belarusian: “Багамы”
  • Bengali: “বাহামা দ্বীপপুঞ্জ”
  • Bengali: “বাহামা”
  • Bengali: “বাহামাস”
  • Betawi: “Bahama”
  • Bhojpuri: “बहामास”
  • Bishnupriya: “বাহামা”
  • Bislama: “Bahamas”
  • Bosnian: “Bahami”
  • Breton: “Bahamas”
  • Bulgarian: “Бахами”
  • Bulgarian: “Бахамски О-ви”
  • Bulgarian: “Бахамски острови”
  • Burmese: “ဘဟားမား”
  • Burmese: “ဘဟားမားနိုင်ငံ”
  • Catalan: “Bahames”
  • Catalan: “Mancomunitat de les Bahames”
  • Cebuano: “Bahamas”
  • Central Bikol: “Bahamas”
  • Central Kurdish: “بەھاما”
  • Chavacano: “Bahamas”
  • Chechen: “Багаман Гlайреш”
  • Chechen: “Багаман гӀайренаш”
  • Chechen: “Багаман ГӀайренаш”
  • Chinese: “Bahamas”
  • Chinese: “巴哈馬”
  • Chinese: “巴哈马 / 巴哈馬”
  • Chinese: “巴哈马”
  • Chuvash: “Пахам утравĕсем”
  • Cornish: “Ynysow Bahama”
  • Corsican: “Bahama”
  • Corsican: “Bahamas”
  • Corsican: “Commonwealth di è Bahamas”
  • Corsican: “Commonwealth di i Bahamas”
  • Crimean Tatar: “Bahamalar”
  • Croatian: “Bahami”
  • Czech: “Bahamské ostrovy”
  • Czech: “Bahamské společenství”
  • Czech: “Bahamy”
  • Dagbani: “Bahamas”
  • Danish: “Bahamas”
  • Dhivehi: “ބަހާމަސް”
  • Dimli (individual language): “Bahama”
  • Dotyali: “बहामस”
  • Dutch: “Bahama’s”
  • Dutch: “BHS”
  • Dutch: “BS”
  • Dutch: “Gemenebest van de Bahama’s”
  • Dzongkha: “བྷ་ཧ་མས྄”
  • Dzongkha: “བཱ་ཧ་མས྄།”
  • Eastern Mari: “Багама”
  • Eastern Mari: “Багаме”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “باهاماس”
  • Erzya: “Багамтнень Усият”
  • Esperanto: “Bahamoj”
  • Estonian: “Bahama saared”
  • Estonian: “Bahama”
  • Ewe: “Bahamas nutome”
  • Ewe: “Bahamas”
  • Extremaduran: “Baamas”
  • Faroese: “Bahamaoyggjar”
  • Faroese: “Bahamas”
  • Fiji Hindi: “Bahamas”
  • Fiji Hindi: “The Bahamas”
  • Finnish: “Bahama”
  • French: “Bahamas”
  • French: “BS”
  • French: “Commonwealth des Bahamas”
  • French: “les Bahamas”
  • French: “Les Bahamas”
  • Fulah: “Bahamaas”
  • Fulah: “Bahamas”
  • Gagauz: “Bahamalar”
  • Galician: “Bahamas”
  • Ganda: “Bahamasi”
  • Georgian: “ბაჰამის კუნძულები”
  • German: “Bahamas”
  • German: “bs”
  • German: “Die Bahamas”
  • Ghanaian Pidgin English: “Bahamas”
  • Gilaki: “باهاما”
  • Goan Konkani: “Bahamas”
  • Goan Konkani: “बहामाज”
  • Greek: “Μπαχάμες”
  • Guarani: “Va’ama”
  • Guarani: “Vaamakuéra”
  • Guianese Creole French: “Bahamas”
  • Gujarati: “ધ બહામાસ”
  • Gujarati: “બહામા”
  • Gujarati: “બહામાસ”
  • Haitian: “Bahamas”
  • Hakka Chinese: “Bahamas”
  • Hausa: “Bahamas”
  • Hebrew: “איי בהאמה”
  • Hebrew: “איי הבהמה”
  • Hebrew: “באהאמה, איי”
  • Hindi: “बहामस”
  • Hindi: “बहामा”
  • Hindi: “बहामाज़”
  • Hindi: “बहामास”
  • Hungarian: “Bahama-szigetek”
  • Hungarian: “Bahamai Közösség”
  • Hungarian: “Bahamák”
  • Icelandic: “Bahamaeyjar”
  • Ido: “Bahama”
  • Igbo: “Bahamas”
  • Iloko: “Bahamas”
  • Inari Sami: “Bahama”
  • Inari Sami: “Bahamasuolluuh”
  • Indonesian: “Bahama”
  • Indonesian: “Bahamas”
  • Indonesian: “Persemakmuran Bahama”
  • Interlingua: “Bahamas”
  • Interlingue: “Bahamas”
  • Irish: “na Bahámaí”
  • Irish: “Na Bahámaí”
  • Italian: “Bahama”
  • Italian: “Bahamas”
  • Italian: “Commonwealth delle Bahama”
  • Italian: “Commonwealth delle Bahamas”
  • Italian: “Le Bahamas”
  • Jamaican Creole English: “Ba’aamaz”
  • Japanese: “バハマ”
  • Japanese: “バハマ国”
  • Javanese: “Bahama”
  • Javanese: “Bahamas”
  • Kabuverdianu: “Baamas”
  • Kabyle: “Bahamas”
  • Kalaallisut: “Bahamas”
  • Kalmyk: “Багамуд Арлин Ниицән”
  • Kannada: “ಬಹಾಮಾಸ್”
  • Kara-Kalpak: “Bagam atawları”
  • Kara-Kalpak: “Bagama atawları”
  • Karachay-Balkar: “Багам Айрымканла”
  • Kashmiri: “بَہامَس”
  • Kashmiri: “बहामास”
  • Kazakh: “Багам аралдары”
  • Kazakh: “Бағамалар”
  • Khmer: “បាហាម៉ា”
  • Khmer: “បាហាមាស”
  • Kikuyu: “Bahama”
  • Kinyarwanda: “Bahamasi”
  • Kirghiz: “Багам аралдары”
  • Kirghiz: “Багама аралдары”
  • Korean: “바하마”
  • Kurdish: “Bahama”
  • Kurdish: “بەھاما”
  • Ladin: “Bahamas”
  • Ladino: “Bahamas”
  • Lao: “ບາຮາມາສ”
  • Lao: “ປະເທດບາຮາມາດ”
  • Latin: “Bahamae”
  • Latin: “Consortio Bahamae”
  • Latin: “Insulae Bahamenses”
  • Latvian: “Bahamas”
  • Latvian: “Bahamu salas”
  • Ligurian: “Bahamas”
  • Limburgan: “Bahama’s”
  • Lingala: “Bahamas”
  • Lingala: “Bahamasɛ”
  • Lingua Franca Nova: “Bahamas”
  • Literary Chinese: “巴哈馬”
  • Lithuanian: “Bahamos”
  • Lithuanian: “Bahamų salos”
  • Livvi: “Bagamat”
  • Lombard: “Bahamas”
  • Low German: “Bahamas”
  • Lower Sorbian: “Bahamy”
  • Luba-Katanga: “Bahamase”
  • Luxembourgish: “Bahamas”
  • Luxembourgish: “Bahamen”
  • Macedo-Romanian: “Bahamas”
  • Macedonian: “Бахами”
  • Macedonian: “Бахамски Острови”
  • Madurese: “Bahama”
  • Maithili: “द बहामस”
  • Malagasy: “Bahamas”
  • Malagasy: “Bahamasy”
  • Malay: “Bahamas”
  • Malayalam: “ബഹാമാസ്”
  • Maltese: “Bahamas”
  • Maltese: “Baħamas”
  • Maltese: “Commonwealth tal-Bahamas”
  • Maltese: “il-Bahamas”
  • Maltese: “il-Baħamas”
  • Manipuri: “ꯕꯍꯥꯃꯥꯁ”
  • Manx: “Co-unnaneys ny Bahamaghyn”
  • Manx: “ny Bahamaghyn”
  • Manx: “Ny Bahamaghyn”
  • Maori: “Pāhama”
  • Marathi: “बहामाज”
  • Marathi: “बहामास”
  • Mazanderani: “باهاما”
  • Min Dong Chinese: “Bahamas”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Bahamas”
  • Minangkabau: “Bahama”
  • Mingrelian: “ბაჰამიშ კოკეფი”
  • Mirandese: “Bahamas”
  • Moksha: “Багама”
  • Mongolian: “Багамын арлууд”
  • Mongolian: “Бахам”
  • Moroccan Arabic: “باهاماس”
  • Narom: “Bahames”
  • Nauru: “Bahamat”
  • Nepali: “बहामस”
  • Nepali: “बहामास”
  • Newari: “बहामास”
  • North Ndebele: “Bhahamas”
  • Northern Frisian: “Bahaamas”
  • Northern Sami: “Bahama stáhtaidovttastupmi”
  • Northern Sami: “Bahama”
  • Northern Sami: “Bahamas”
  • Northern Sami: “Bahamasullot”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Bahamas”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Bahamas”
  • Norwegian: “Bahamas”
  • Novial: “Bahamas”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Bahamas”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Las Bahamas”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Mancomunautat de las Bahamas”
  • Old English (ca. 450-1100): “Bahamas”
  • Oriya: “ବାହାମା”
  • Oriya: “ବାହାମାସ୍”
  • Oromo: “Bahamaas”
  • Ossetian: “Багамы сакъадæхтæ”
  • Pali: “बहामास”
  • Pampanga: “Bahamas”
  • Panjabi: “ਬਹਾਮਾਸ”
  • Papiamento: “Bahamas”
  • Pennsylvania German: “Bahaamas”
  • Persian: “باهاما”
  • Persian: “بهاما”
  • Picard: “Bahamas”
  • Piemontese: “Bahamas”
  • Pitcairn-Norfolk: “Bahaamas”
  • Pitcairn-Norfolk: “Komonwelth a‘ t’ Bahaamas”
  • Polish: “Bahamy”
  • Portuguese: “As Bahamas”
  • Portuguese: “Baamas”
  • Portuguese: “Bahamas”
  • Portuguese: “Comunidade das Bahamas”
  • Portuguese: “Ilhas Bahamas”
  • Pushto: “باهماس”
  • Pushto: “بهاماس”
  • Quechua: “Bahamakuna”
  • Quechua: “Bahamas”
  • Quechua: “Pahamakuna”
  • Romanian: “Bahamas”
  • Romansh: “Bahamas”
  • Rundi: “Bahamasi”
  • Russia Buriat: “Баһаамын аралууд”
  • Russia Buriat: “Баһамын аралнууд”
  • Russian: “Багамские острова”
  • Russian: “Багамские Острова”
  • Russian: “Багамы”
  • Russian: “Содружество Багамских Островов”
  • Rusyn: “Багамы”
  • Sakizaya: “Bahamas”
  • Samoan: “Bahamas”
  • Samogitian: “Bahamas”
  • Sango: “Bahâmasa”
  • Sanskrit: “बहामास”
  • Santali: “ᱵᱟᱦᱟᱢᱟᱥ”
  • Sardinian: “Bahamas”
  • Saterfriesisch: “Bahamas”
  • Scots: “The Bahamas”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “Na h-Eileanan Bhathama”
  • Serbian: “Bahame”
  • Serbian: “Бахаме”
  • Serbian: “Бахами”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Bahami”
  • Shan: “မိူင်းပႃႇႁႃးမႃး”
  • Shona: “Bahama”
  • Shona: “The Bahamas”
  • Sicilian: “Bahamas”
  • Silesian: “Bahamy”
  • Sindhi: “باهاماس”
  • Sindhi: “بهاماس”
  • Sinhala: “බහමාස්”
  • Skolt Sami: “Bahama õutstõs”
  • Skolt Sami: “Bahama”
  • Slovak: “Bahamské spoločenstvo”
  • Slovak: “Bahamy”
  • Slovenian: “BAH”
  • Slovenian: “Bahami”
  • Slovenian: “bs”
  • Slovenian: “Skupnost Bahami”
  • Somali: “Bahaamas”
  • Somali: “Bahamas”
  • South Azerbaijani: “باهاما”
  • Spanish: “Bahamas”
  • Spanish: “Las Bahamas”
  • Spanish: “Mancomunidad de las Bahamas”
  • Standard Moroccan Tamazight: “ⴱⴰⵀⴰⵎⴰⵚ”
  • Sundanese: “Bahama”
  • Swahili: “Bahama”
  • Swahili: “Bahamas”
  • Swati: “IBhahamasi”
  • Swedish: “Bahamas”
  • Swiss German: “Bahamas”
  • Tachelhit: “Bahamaṣ”
  • Tagalog: “Bahamas”
  • Tajik: “Багам”
  • Tajik: “Баҳамас”
  • Tajik: “Боҳомо”
  • Tamil: “பகாமாசு”
  • Tamil: “பஹாமாஸ்”
  • Taroko: “Bahamas”
  • Tatar: “Багам утраулары”
  • Tatar: “Багамалар”
  • Telugu: “బహామాస్”
  • Tetum: “Bahamas”
  • Thai: “บาฮามาส”
  • Thai: “ประเทศบาฮามาส”
  • Tibetan: “བ་ཧ་མཱ་སི།”
  • Tibetan: “བྷཱ་མས྄།”
  • Tigrinya: “ባሃማስ”
  • Tonga (Tonga Islands): “Pahama”
  • Tosk Albanian: “Bahamas”
  • Tunisian Arabic: “باهاماس”
  • Turkish: “Bahama Adaları”
  • Turkish: “Bahama Milletler Topluluğu”
  • Turkish: “Bahama”
  • Turkish: “Bahamalar”
  • Turkmen: “Bagama adalary”
  • Turkmen: “Bagama Adalary”
  • Udmurt: “Багама шормуӵъёс”
  • Uighur: “باھاما”
  • Ukrainian: “Багами”
  • Ukrainian: “Багамські Острови”
  • Upper Sorbian: “Bahamy”
  • Urdu: “بہاماس”
  • Uzbek: “Bagam orollari”
  • Uzbek: “Bagama orollari”
  • Uzbek: “Bagamalar”
  • Venetian: “Bahamas”
  • Veps: “Bagaman Sared”
  • Vietnamese: “Ba-ha-ma (Bahamas)”
  • Vietnamese: “Ba-ha-ma”
  • Vietnamese: “Bahamas”
  • Vietnamese: “bs”
  • Vietnamese: “Quần đảo Bahamas”
  • Vietnamese: “Thịnh vượng chung Bahamas”
  • Vlax Romani: “The Bahamas”
  • Volapük: “Bahamuäns”
  • Võro: “Bahama”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Bahamas”
  • Welsh: “Y Bahamas”
  • Western Armenian: “Պահամաները”
  • Western Balochi: “بهاما”
  • Western Frisian: “Bahama’s”
  • Western Frisian: “Mienebêst fan de Bahama’s”
  • Western Mari: “Багамвлӓ”
  • Western Panjabi: “بہاما”
  • Western Panjabi: “بہاماس”
  • Wolof: “Bahamas”
  • Wu Chinese: “巴哈馬”
  • Yakut: “Баhамалар”
  • Yakut: “Багаама Холбоһуга”
  • Yiddish: “באהאמאס”
  • Yiddish: “באַהאַמאַס”
  • Yoruba: “Àwọn Bàhámà”
  • Yoruba: “Bàhámásì”
  • Yoruba: “Orílẹ́ède Bàhámásì”
  • Yue Chinese: “巴哈馬”
  • Zeeuws: “Bahama’s”
  • Zhuang: “Bahamas”
  • Zulu: “i-Bahamas”
  • “BAH”
  • “Bahama”
  • “Bahamas”
  • “BHS”
  • “BS”
  • “ma Pawama”
  • “बहामास”

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