Bahamas
Bahamas (officially Commonwealth of the Bahamas) is a country in Caribbean, with its capital at Nassau, and is home to roughly 401.3K people.
English is the official language; the currency in circulation is Bahamian dollar ($) and United States dollar ($); people from here are called Bahamian.
- »Around 700 islands and 2,000 cays make up the archipelago; roughly 30 are inhabited.
- »Dean's Blue Hole, over 200 m deep, is among the deepest known underwater sinkholes.
Bahamas is an archipelago, and that is the whole story of its silhouette: 14 landmasses are big enough to see at map scale, the largest holding only 28% of the territory, and 15 separate pieces in all.
It straddles the Tropic of Cancer.
Bahamas shares no land border with anything, so every approach is by sea or air. The closest other territories on file are Cuba (355 km), Jamaica (732 km) and Haiti (847 km), measured centre to centre.
Nassau was a pirate haven in the early 18th century, governed for a time by the pirates themselves before the British reasserted control.
12,668 km² (4,891 sq mi), 158th largest of 198 countries and territories on file, almost exactly the size of Montenegro.
Population 401,283, 174th of 198 on file. That averages 32 per km² (82 per sq mi).
The black triangle stands for the strength of the Bahamian people, thrust toward the gold of the beaches and the aquamarine of the sea.