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, Sharlene Cartwright-Robinson, 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 located within the Lucayan Archipelago in the Atlantic Ocean. It contains 97 percent 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