The Bahamas

The Bahamas

The Bahamas ranks 142nd in number of biographies on Pantheon, behind Suriname, Guadeloupe, and Monaco. Memorable people born in present day The Bahamas include Arthur Foulkes, Perry Christie, and Durward Knowles. Memorable people who died in The Bahamas include Sean Connery, Benjamin Hornigold, and Arthur Hailey. The Bahamas has been the birth place of many athletes, and politicians and the death place of many actors, and singers.

The Bahamas, officially the Commonwealth of The Bahamas, is a country in North America. It is an island country within the Lucayan Archipelago of the West Indies in the Atlantic Ocean. It contains 97% of the Lucayan Archipelago's land area and 88% of its population. The archipelagic state consists of more than 3,000 islands, cays, and islets in the Atlantic Ocean, and is located north of Cuba and northwest of the island of Hispaniola and the Turks and Caicos Islands, southeast of the U.S. state of Florida, and east of the Florida Keys. The capital 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. Read more on Wikipedia