Bahamas
The Bahamas is an archipelago nation in the Atlantic Ocean off the east coast of Florida. The country is made up of about 3,000 islands and cays, of which approximately 30 are populated.Essential Destinations
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Cat Island
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Bahamas
- Country with about 399,000 residents
- …has Nassau as its capital
- …uses the Dollar (BSD)
- …has the phone code +1-242
- …uses the internet domain .bs
- …covers 5,382 miles² (13,940 km²)
- Description: island sovereign state in the West Indies
- Also known as“Bahama Islands”“Bahamas, The”“bs”“Colony of the Bahamas”“Commonwealth of The Bahamas”“The Bahamas”
- Language: English
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Latitude of center
24.77° or 24° 46′ 12″ north
Longitude of center
-76.95° or 76° 57′ west
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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: “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: “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”
- Chinese: “巴哈馬”
- Chinese: “巴哈马 / 巴哈馬”
- Chinese: “巴哈马”
- Choctaw: “Bahamas”
- 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: “Gemenebest van de Bahama’s”
- 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”
- Finnish: “Bahaman yhteisö”
- French: “Bahamas”
- French: “Commonwealth des 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”
- Goan Konkani: “बाहामास”
- 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: “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”
- 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”
- Jèrriais: “Bahames”
- Kabardian: “Бахамэ тӀыгухэр”
- Kabuverdianu: “Baamas”
- Kabyle: “Bahamas”
- Kalaallisut: “Bahamas”
- Kalmyk: “Багамуд Арлин Ниицән”
- Kannada: “ಬಹಾಮಾಸ್”
- Kara-Kalpak: “Bagam atawları”
- Kara-Kalpak: “Bagama atawları”
- Karachay-Balkar: “Багам Айрымканла”
- Karekare: “Bahamas”
- Kashmiri: “بَہاماس”
- Kashmiri: “بَہامَس”
- Kashmiri: “बहामास”
- Kazakh: “Багам аралдары”
- Kazakh: “Бағамалар”
- Khmer: “បាហាម៉ា”
- Khmer: “បាហាម៉ាស”
- 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: “Bahama’s”
- 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: “Baħamas”
- Maltese: “Commonwealth tal-Bahamas”
- Maltese: “il-Baħamas”
- Manipuri: “ꯕꯍꯥꯃꯥꯁ”
- Manx: “Co-unnaneys 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”
- Nauru: “Bahamat”
- 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: “Bahama-øyene”
- 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: “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: “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”
- Tunisian Arabic: “باهاماس”
- Turkish: “Bahama Adaları”
- Turkish: “Bahama Milletler Topluluğu”
- Turkish: “Bahama”
- Turkish: “Bahamalar”
- 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: “באַהאַמאַס”
- Yoruba: “Àwọn Bàhámà”
- Yoruba: “Bàhámásì”
- Yoruba: “Orílẹ́ède Bàhámásì”
- Yue Chinese: “巴哈馬”
- Zeeuws: “Bahama’s”
- Zhuang: “Bahamas”
- Zulu: “i-Bahamas”
- “BAH”
- “BHS”
- “ma Pawama”
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