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 Philip Davis, Durward Knowles, and Perry Christie. 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 an island country located within the Lucayan Archipelago. It contains 97 per cent of the archipelago's land area and 88 per cent of its population. It comprises more than 3,000 islands, cays and islets 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 U.S. 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. Read more on Wikipedia