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Die Bahamas (englisch The Bahamas) sind ein Inselstaat im Atlantik und Teil der Westindischen Inseln. Sie liegen südöstlich der Vereinigten Staaten sowie nordöstlich von Kuba und werden geographisch zu Mittelamerika gezählt. Von den mehr als 700 Bahamainseln sind nur 30 bewohnt. Die Inselgruppe erhielt ihren Namen durch die spanischen Eroberer. Sie nannten die Gewässer um die Inseln Baja Mar (spanisch für ‚flaches Meer‘), woraus später Bahamas wurde. Seit 1973 sind die Bahamas vom Vereinigten Königreich unabhängig, formal ist jedoch weiterhin Königin Elisabeth II. Staatsoberhaupt der ehemaligen Kronkolonie.

The Bahamas , officially the Commonwealth of the Bahamas, is a country consisting of more than 700 islands, cays, and islets in the Atlantic Ocean; north of Cuba and Hispaniola (the Dominican Republic and Haiti); northwest of the Turks and Caicos Islands; southeast of the U.S. state of Florida and east of the Florida Keys. Its capital is Nassau on the island of New Providence. Geographically, the Bahamas lie near to Cuba, which is part of the Greater Antilles, along with Hispaniola and Jamaica. The designation of „Bahamas“ refers to the country and the geographic chain that it shares with the Turks and Caicos Islands. The three West Indies/Caribbean island groupings are: The Bahamas, the Greater Antilles, and the Lesser Antilles. As stated on the mandate/manifesto of the Royal Bahamas Defence Force, the Bahamas territory encompasses 180,000 square miles of ocean space. From the Cay Sal Bank and Cay Lobos (just off of the coast of Cuba) in the west, to San Salvador, the Bahamas is much larger than is recorded in some sources.

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