Official name
Commonwealth of The Bahamas
Name in local language
Commonwealth of the Bahamas (en)
Continent
Americas
Subcontinent
Caribbean
Population (ranking: 182e )
399,421 inhabitants (2018)
Population growth
0.83 % / year
Area
13,962 km²
Density
28.61 inhabitants / km²
GDP (ranking: 146e )12.162 billions $USD (2017)
GDP/capita (ranking )
31,858 $USD (2017)
GDP growth
1.40 % / year (2017)
Life expectancy (ranking )
73.80 years (2018)
Birth rate
10.70 ‰ (2017)
Fertility rate
1.42 children / woman (2017)
Death rate (ranking )
6.30 ‰ (2017)
Infant mortality rate (ranking )
17.20 ‰ (2017)
Literacy rate
99.00 % (2016)
Official languages
English (Creole widely spoken)
Currency
Bahamian dollar ($ BSD)
HDI (ranking: 85e )0.805 / 1 (2018)
EPI (ranking )54.99 (2018)
Government
Unitary parliamentary constitutional monarchy
Head of State
Queen Elizabeth II ; Governor-General Cornelius A. Smith
National Day
10 July (independence of 1973)
ISO Codes BS, BHS
Demonym
Bahamian
Tourists (ranking )
6,135,839 people (2017)
The Bahamas is a state located north of the Caribbean Sea. The archipelago occupies about 700 islands of Lucayes Islands located in the Atlantic Ocean, east of Florida in the United States , north of Cuba and Haiti , and north-west of the Turks and Caicos Islands. Its capital is Nassau, located on the island of New Providence.
Island in the Bahamas Bahamas – Medellin cartel drug traffickers plane wreck. The plane crashed on November 15, 1980 near the island of Exumas. Photo: Bjorn Moerman Bahamas – Andros : water hole. Photo: Ty Sawyer Nassau, capitale of the Bahamas Atlantis, Paradise Island, Bahamas Urban areas (2017)
Urban areas
Population
Nassau
288,978 inhabitants
Freeport
59,642 inhabitants
Administrative divisions
Districts
Population
Area
Abaco Centrale
9,196 inhabitants
670 km²
Abaco Nord
9,578 inhabitants
670 km²
Abaco Sud
7,646 inhabitants
669 km²
Acklins
565 inhabitants
389 km²
Andros Centrale
7,386 inhabitants
5,957 km²
Andros Nord
3,898 inhabitants
1,490 km²
Andros Sud
3,592 inhabitants
1,489 km²
Berry
807 inhabitants
78 km²
Bimini
1,988 inhabitants
23 km²
Black Point
414 inhabitants
10 km²
Cat
1,522 inhabitants
388 km²
Crooked
330 inhabitants
148 km²
Eleuthera Centrale
2,608 inhabitants
161 km²
Eleuthera Nord
2,609 inhabitants
162 km²
Eleuthera Sud
2,608 inhabitants
161 km²
Exumas
6,928 inhabitants
250 km²
Freeport
45,945 inhabitants
558 km²
Grand Bahama Est
2,905 inhabitants
408 km²
Grand Bahama Ouest
2,906 inhabitants
408 km²
Grand Cay
383 inhabitants
10 km²
Harbour
1,762 inhabitants
4 km²
Hope Town
458 inhabitants
10 km²
Inagua
913 inhabitants
1,679 km²
Long Island
3,094 inhabitants
596 km²
Mangrove Cay
892 inhabitants
1,489 km²
See also
