The Bahamas

The Bahamas Peter Fitzgerald, NordNordWest, CC BY-SA 3.0

Island sovereign state in the West Indies

The Bahamas, officially the Commonwealth of The Bahamas, is an archipelagic country in the Caribbean located within the Lucayan Archipelago in the Atlantic Ocean. The country comprises 700 islands, and more than 2,500 cays in the Atlantic Ocean, located north of Cuba and north-west of the island of Hispaniola and the Turks and Caicos Islands, southeast of the US state of Florida and east of the Florida Keys. The capital and largest city is Nassau on the island of New Providence. The Royal Bahamas Defence Force describes the Bahamas' territory as encompassing 470,000 km2 (180,000 sq mi) of ocean space.

Also known as...Commonwealth of The Bahamas, Commonwealth of the Bahamas, bs, Bahama Islands, Bahamas, and Bahamas, The
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Bahamas Plane Crash Kills 10, Flamingo Air Grounded

Bahamas Plane Crash Kills 10, Flamingo Air Grounded Ten people died when a Flamingo Air flight crashed on the Bahamas' independence day.