The Bahamas (bhs)

The Bahamas

The Bahamas ranks 10,749th in number of biographies on Pantheon, behind Alcobaça, Portugal, Alexandria, West Dunbartonshire, and Alexandria, Romania. Memorable people born in The Bahamas include Cornelius A. Smith, and Anthonique Strachan. Memorable people who died in The Bahamas include Benjamin Hornigold, Jimmy Bain, and Errol Brown. The Bahamas has been the birth place of many politicians, and athletes and the death place of many pirates, and musicians. The Bahamas is located in The Bahamas.

The Bahamas, officially the Commonwealth of The Bahamas, is an island country within the Lucayan Archipelago of the Atlantic Ocean. It contains 97% of the Lucayan Archipelago's land area and 88% of its population. The archipelagic country 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