The Commonwealth of the Bahamas is a sovereign island nation

Island nation

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 comprising an archipelago

Archipelago

An archipelago , sometimes called an island group, is a chain or cluster of islands. The word archipelago is derived from the Greek ἄρχι- – arkhi- and πέλαγος – pélagos through the Italian arcipelago...

 of seven hundred island

Island

An island or isle is any piece of sub-continental land that is surrounded by water. Very small islands such as emergent land features on atolls can be called islets, cays or keys. An island in a river or lake may be called an eyot , or holm...

s and two thousand cay

Cay

A cay , also spelled caye or key, is a small, low-elevation, sandy island formed on the surface of coral reefs. Cays occur in tropical environments throughout the Pacific, Atlantic and Indian Oceans , where they provide habitable and agricultural land for hundreds of thousands of people...

s. The Bahamas are located in the Atlantic Ocean

Atlantic Ocean

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, southeast of Florida

Florida

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 and the United States

United States

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, north of Cuba

Cuba

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, the island of Hispanola and the Caribbean Sea

Caribbean Sea

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, and northwest of the British overseas territory of the Turks and Caicos Islands

Turks and Caicos Islands

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.

The following outline is provided as an overview of and topical guide to the Bahamas:

General reference

• Pronunciation
  International Phonetic Alphabet
  The International Phonetic Alphabet "The acronym 'IPA' strictly refers [...] to the 'International Phonetic Association'. But it is now such a common practice to use the acronym also to refer to the alphabet itself that resistance seems pedantic...
  
  :
• Common English country names: The Bahamas
  The Bahamas
  The Bahamas , officially the Commonwealth of the Bahamas, is a nation consisting of 29 islands, 661 cays, and 2,387 islets . It is located in the Atlantic Ocean north of Cuba and Hispaniola , northwest of the Turks and Caicos Islands, and southeast of the United States...
  
   or the Bahama Islands
• Official English country name: The Commonwealth of The Bahamas
• Common endonym(s):
• Official endonym(s):
• Adjectival(s): Bahamian
  Demographics of the Bahamas
  This article is about the demographic features of the population of The Bahamas, including population density, ethnicity, education level, health of the populace, economic status, religious affiliations and other aspects of the population....
  
  
• Demonym(s):
• Etymology
  Etymology
  Etymology is the study of the history of words, their origins, and how their form and meaning have changed over time.For languages with a long written history, etymologists make use of texts in these languages and texts about the languages to gather knowledge about how words were used during...
  
  : Name of the Bahamas
• ISO country codes: BS, BHS, 044
• ISO region codes: See ISO 3166-2:BS
  ISO 3166-2:BS
  ISO 3166-2:BS is the entry for the Bahamas in ISO 3166-2, part of the ISO 3166 standard published by the International Organization for Standardization , which defines codes for the names of the principal subdivisions of all countries coded in ISO 3166-1.Currently for the Bahamas, ISO 3166-2 codes...
  
  
• Internet
  Internet
  The Internet is a global system of interconnected computer networks that use the standard Internet protocol suite to serve billions of users worldwide...
  
   country code top-level domain
  Country code top-level domain
  A country code top-level domain is an Internet top-level domain generally used or reserved for a country, a sovereign state, or a dependent territory....
  
  : .bs
  .bs
  .bs is the Internet country code top-level domain for the Bahamas. It is administered by the College of the Bahamas.-Second level domains:There are five Second Level Domains:*com.bs: Commercial Entities*net.bs: Network Providers...
  
  

Geography of the Bahamas

• The Bahamas are...
  • an archipelago
    Archipelago
    An archipelago , sometimes called an island group, is a chain or cluster of islands. The word archipelago is derived from the Greek ἄρχι- – arkhi- and πέλαγος – pélagos through the Italian arcipelago...
    
    
  • a country
    Country
    A country is a region legally identified as a distinct entity in political geography. A country may be an independent sovereign state or one that is occupied by another state, as a non-sovereign or formerly sovereign political division, or a geographic region associated with a previously...
    
    
    • an island country consisting of two thousand cay
      Cay
      A cay , also spelled caye or key, is a small, low-elevation, sandy island formed on the surface of coral reefs. Cays occur in tropical environments throughout the Pacific, Atlantic and Indian Oceans , where they provide habitable and agricultural land for hundreds of thousands of people...
      
      s and seven hundred island
      Island
      An island or isle is any piece of sub-continental land that is surrounded by water. Very small islands such as emergent land features on atolls can be called islets, cays or keys. An island in a river or lake may be called an eyot , or holm...
      
      s
    • a nation state
    • a Commonwealth Realm
      Commonwealth Realm
      A Commonwealth realm is a sovereign state within the Commonwealth of Nations that has Elizabeth II as its monarch and head of state. The sixteen current realms have a combined land area of 18.8 million km² , and a population of 134 million, of which all, except about two million, live in the six...
      
      
• Location:
  • Northern Hemisphere
    Northern Hemisphere
    The Northern Hemisphere is the half of a planet that is north of its equator—the word hemisphere literally means “half sphere”. It is also that half of the celestial sphere north of the celestial equator...
    
     and Western Hemisphere
    Western Hemisphere
    The Western Hemisphere or western hemisphere is mainly used as a geographical term for the half of the Earth that lies west of the Prime Meridian and east of the Antimeridian , the other half being called the Eastern Hemisphere.In this sense, the western hemisphere consists of the western portions...
    
    
    • North America
      North America
      North America is a continent wholly within the Northern Hemisphere and almost wholly within the Western Hemisphere. It is also considered a northern subcontinent of the Americas...
      
       (off the East Coast of the United States
      East Coast of the United States
      The East Coast of the United States, also known as the Eastern Seaboard, refers to the easternmost coastal states in the United States, which touch the Atlantic Ocean and stretch up to Canada. The term includes the U.S...
      
      , southeast of Florida
      Florida
      Florida is a state in the southeastern United States, located on the nation's Atlantic and Gulf coasts. It is bordered to the west by the Gulf of Mexico, to the north by Alabama and Georgia and to the east by the Atlantic Ocean. With a population of 18,801,310 as measured by the 2010 census, it...
      
      )
  • Atlantic Ocean
    Atlantic Ocean
    The Atlantic Ocean is the second-largest of the world's oceanic divisions. With a total area of about , it covers approximately 20% of the Earth's surface and about 26% of its water surface area...
    
    
    • North Atlantic Ocean
  • Time zone
    Time zone
    A time zone is a region on Earth that has a uniform standard time for legal, commercial, and social purposes. In order for the same clock time to always correspond to the same portion of the day as the Earth rotates , different places on the Earth need to have different clock times...
    
    : Eastern Standard Time
    Eastern Standard Time
    Eastern Standard Time may refer to:*North American Eastern Time Zone, UTC-5*Australian Eastern Standard Time, UTC+10*An album by Hip Hop group Kooley High...
    
     (UTC-05), Eastern Daylight Time (UTC-04)
  • Extreme points of the Bahamas
    • High: Mount Alvernia
      Mount Alvernia
      Mount Alvernia is located on Cat Island in the Bahamas and is the highest point in the country at above sea level. The Mountain shares its name with a school in Montego Bay, Jamaica....
      
       on Cat Island 63 m (207 ft)
    • Low: North Atlantic Ocean 0 m
  • Land boundaries: none
  • Coastline: North Atlantic Ocean 3,542 km
• Population of the Bahamas: 330,549(2007) - 177th most populous country
• Area of the Bahamas: 13878 square kilometres (5,358.3 sq mi) - 160th largest country
• Maps of the Bahamas
  • Atlas of the Bahamas

Environment of the Bahamas

• Climate of the Bahamas
• Environmental issues in the Bahamas
• Ecoregions in the Bahamas
• Renewable energy in the Bahamas
• Geology of the Bahamas
• Protected areas of the Bahamas
  • Biosphere reserves in the Bahamas
  • National parks of the Bahamas
• Wildlife of the Bahamas
  • Flora of the Bahamas
  • Fauna of the Bahamas
    • Birds of the Bahamas
    • Mammals of the Bahamas

Natural geographic features of the Bahamas

• Rivers of the Bahamas
• World Heritage Sites in the Bahamas: None

Islands of the Bahamas

• Abaco
  Abaco Islands
  The Abaco Islands lie in the northern Bahamas and comprise the main islands of Great Abaco and Little Abaco, together with the smaller Wood Cay, Elbow Cay, Lubbers Quarters Cay, Green Turtle Cay, Great Guana Cay, Castaway Cay, Man-o-War Cay, Stranger's Cay, Umbrella Cay, Walker's Cay, Little Grand...
  
  
• Acklins
  Acklins
  Acklins is an island and district of the Bahamas.It is one of a group of islands arranged along a large, shallow lagoon called the Bight of Acklins, of which the largest are Crooked Island in the north and Acklins in the southeast, and the smaller are Long Cay [ 8sq mi] in the northwest, and...
  
  
• Acklins and Crooked Islands
  Acklins and Crooked Islands
  Acklins and Crooked Islands was a district of the Bahamas until 1996, and as Acklins, Crooked Island and Long Cay until 1999....
  
  
• Andros, Bahamas
  Andros, Bahamas
  Andros Island is an archipelago within the archipelago-nation of the Bahamas, the largest of the 26 inhabited Bahamian Islands. Geo-politically considered a single island, Andros has an area greater than all the other 700 Bahamian islands combined...
  
  
• Berry Islands
  Berry Islands
  The Berry Islands are a chain of islands and a district of the Bahamas, covering about thirty square miles of the north western part of the Out Islands...
  
  
• Bimini
  Bimini
  Bimini is the westernmost district of the Bahamas composed of a chain of islands located about 53 miles due east of Miami, Florida. Bimini is the closest point in the Bahamas to the mainland United States and approximately 137 miles west-northwest of Nassau...
  
  
• Castaway Cay
  Castaway Cay
  'Castaway Cay' is a private island in the Bahamas which serves as an exclusive port for the Disney Cruise Line ships Disney Wonder, Disney Magic, Disney Dream, and Disney Fantasy. It is located near Great Abaco Island, and was formerly known as Gorda Cay...
  
  
• Cat Island (Bahamas)
  Cat Island (Bahamas)
  Cat Island is in the central Bahamas, and one of its districts, and has the nation's highest point. Its Mount Alvernia rises to 206 ft and is topped by a monastery called The Hermitage. This assembly of buildings was erected by the Franciscan "Brother Jerome" .The first European settlers were...
  
  
• Conception Island
• Crooked Island (Bahamas)
  Crooked Island (Bahamas)
  Crooked Island is an island and district, part of a group of Bahamian islands defining a large, shallow lagoon called the Bight of Acklins, of which the largest are Crooked Island in the north and Acklins in the south-east, and the smaller are Long Cay in the north-west, and Castle Island in the...
  
  
• Egg Island (Bahamas)
• Eleuthera
  Eleuthera
  Eleuthera is an island in The Bahamas, lying 50 miles east of Nassau. It is very long and thin—110 miles long and in places little more than a mile wide. According to the 2000 Census, the population of Eleuthera is approximately 8,000...
  
  
• Exuma
  Exuma
  Exuma is a district of the Bahamas, consisting of over 360 islands . The largest of the cays is Great Exuma, which is 37 mi in length and joined to another island, Little Exuma by a small bridge. The capital and largest city in the district is George Town , founded 1793 and located on Great...
  
  
• Grand Bahama
  Grand Bahama
  Grand Bahama is one of the northernmost of the islands of the Bahamas, and the closest major island to the United States, lying off the state of Florida. Grand Bahama is the fifth largest island in the Bahamas island chain of approximately 700 islands and 2,400 cays...
  
  
• Great Guana Cay
  Great Guana Cay
  Great Guana Cay is an islet located in The Bahamas. It is a long but narrow islet which is 9 miles in length. It is located in the centre of the Abaco Islands...
  
  
• Little San Salvador Island
  Little San Salvador Island
  Little San Salvador Island, Bahamas , is one of about 700 islands that make up the archipelago of the Bahamas. It is located roughly halfway between Eleuthera and Cat Island...
  
  
• Little Stirrup Cay
  Little Stirrup Cay
  Little Stirrup Cay, Bahamas, is one of the Berry Islands, a collection of cays and small islands and is located approximately 55 miles north of Nassau. The island is less than a mile wide from east to west and less than a 200 yards from north to south...
  
  
• Long Island, Bahamas
  Long Island, Bahamas
  Long Island is an island in the Bahamas that is split by the Tropic of Cancer. Its capital is Clarence Town. Long Island is one of the Districts of the Bahamas and is known as the most scenic island in the Bahamas. The population is roughly 4,000 inhabitants.-Geography:Long Island is about 130...
  
  
• Man-O-War Cay
  Man-O-War Cay
  Man-O-War Cay is a small island in the Abaco region of the Bahamas.It has a population of about 300 Bahamian residents and about 135 foreign resident families. During the summer some local houses are rented by vacationing families that have a reputation as good house guests...
  
  
• Mayaguana
  Mayaguana
  Mayaguana is the most easterly island and district of the Bahamas. It is one of only a few Bahamian islands which retain their Lucayan names. The population of Mayaguana in the 2000 census was 259, amounting to an estimate 312 in 2010...
  
  
• Moore's Island
  Moore's Island
  Moore's Island is one of the districts of the Bahamas, on the Abaco Islands.Moore's Island is one of the little cays off the main land of Abaco. It is approximately long and wide and approximately from Abaco...
  
  
• New Providence
  New Providence
  New Providence is the most populous island in the Bahamas, containing more than 70% of the total population. It also houses the national capital city, Nassau.The island was originally under Spanish control following Christopher Columbus' discovery of the New World, but the Spanish government showed...
  
  
• Norman's Cay
  Norman's Cay
  Norman's Cay is a small Bahamian island in the Exumas, a chain of islands south and east of Nassau, that served as the headquarters for Carlos Lehder's drug-smuggling operation from 1978 to around 1982.-Drug smuggling history:...
  
  
• Out Islands
  Out Islands
  The Out Islands is a name given to the islands that make up the Bahamas with the exception of New Providence Island and Grand Bahama Island. There are more than 700 islands in the archipelago that make up The Bahamas, but only 14 of the Out Islands are considered inhabited...
  
  
• Paradise Island
  Paradise Island
  Paradise Island is an island in the Bahamas formerly known as Hog Island. The island is located just off the shore of the city of Nassau, which is itself located on the northern edge of the island of New Providence. It is best known for the sprawling 'Vegas-by-the-sea resort' Atlantis.Paradise...
  
  
• Ragged Island
• Rum Cay
  Rum Cay
  Rum Cay is an island and district of the Bahamas. Lat.: N23 42' 30" - Long.: W 74 50' 00" - Size: 30 Sq. mlsRum Cay is 20 miles southwest of San Salvador Island, has many rolling hills that rises to about 120 feet . Christopher Columbus called it Santa Maria de la Concepción. The island is...
  
  
• Samana Cay
  Samana Cay
  Samana Cay is the largest now uninhabited island in the Bahamas, believed by some researchers to have been the location of Columbus's first landfall in the Americas, on October 12, 1492....
  
  
• San Salvador Island
  San Salvador Island
  San Salvador Island, also known as Watlings Island, is an island and district of the Bahamas. Until 1986, when the National Geographic Society suggested Samana Cay, it was widely believed that during his first expedition to the New World, San Salvador Island was the first land sighted and visited...
  
  
• Windermere Island
  Windermere Island
  Windermere Island is a small island located in The Bahamas. It is about five and a half miles long, and is noted for its beaches and its celebrity visitors, who use it as a private retreat. The island is connected to the larger island of Eleuthera by a short bridge, which is protected by a...
  
  

Ecoregions of the Bahamas

Main article: Ecoregions in the Bahamas

Administrative divisions of the Bahamas

Main article: Administrative divisions of the Bahamas

• Districts of the Bahamas
  Districts of the Bahamas
  Local government in the Bahamas exists in two forms, namely second-schedule and third-schedule district councils. There are a total of 32 local government districts: 13 second-schedule districts, which are further sub-divided into town areas, and 19 third-schedule districts, which are all unitary...
  
  
  • Municipalities of the Bahamas

Districts of the Bahamas

• Acklins
  Acklins
  Acklins is an island and district of the Bahamas.It is one of a group of islands arranged along a large, shallow lagoon called the Bight of Acklins, of which the largest are Crooked Island in the north and Acklins in the southeast, and the smaller are Long Cay [ 8sq mi] in the northwest, and...
  
  
• Berry Islands
  Berry Islands
  The Berry Islands are a chain of islands and a district of the Bahamas, covering about thirty square miles of the north western part of the Out Islands...
  
  
• Bimini
  Bimini
  Bimini is the westernmost district of the Bahamas composed of a chain of islands located about 53 miles due east of Miami, Florida. Bimini is the closest point in the Bahamas to the mainland United States and approximately 137 miles west-northwest of Nassau...
  
  
• Black Point
  Black Point (Bahamas)
  Black Point is one of the districts of the Bahamas....
  
   (Exuma
  Exuma
  Exuma is a district of the Bahamas, consisting of over 360 islands . The largest of the cays is Great Exuma, which is 37 mi in length and joined to another island, Little Exuma by a small bridge. The capital and largest city in the district is George Town , founded 1793 and located on Great...
  
  )
• Cat Island
• Central Abaco
  Central Abaco
  Central Abaco is one of the districts of the Bahamas, in the Abaco Islands. The district contains the largest town in the Abacos, Marsh Harbour, which is the commerce centre for the islands.Some of the more noticeable settlements are:* Little Harbour...
  
  
• Central Andros
  Central Andros
  Central Andros is one of the districts of the Bahamas, on Andros Island. Its current Chief Councillor is Mr. Deon Sweeting. The Member of Parliament for this District is Minister Picewell Forbes.Central Andros is known for its large concentration of blue holes and wide area of bone fishing flats....
  
  
• Central Eleuthera
  Central Eleuthera
  Central Eleuthera is one of the districts of the Bahamas, on the island of Eleuthera....
  
  
• City of Freeport (Grand Bahama
  Grand Bahama
  Grand Bahama is one of the northernmost of the islands of the Bahamas, and the closest major island to the United States, lying off the state of Florida. Grand Bahama is the fifth largest island in the Bahamas island chain of approximately 700 islands and 2,400 cays...
  
  )
• Crooked Island
• East Grand Bahama
  East Grand Bahama
  East Grand Bahama is a district of the Bahamas, situated on the eastern part of the island of Grand Bahama.The local government seat for the district is in the settlement of High Rock, a fairly small town. It is situated approximately 40 miles east of the City of Freeport, and 20 miles from the...
  
  
• Exuma
  Exuma
  Exuma is a district of the Bahamas, consisting of over 360 islands . The largest of the cays is Great Exuma, which is 37 mi in length and joined to another island, Little Exuma by a small bridge. The capital and largest city in the district is George Town , founded 1793 and located on Great...
  
  
• Grand Cay
  Grand Cay
  Grand Cay is one of the districts of the Bahamas, in the Abaco islands.Grand Cay is the island just to the south of Walker's it is the first cay you come to with a settlement and where many of the Walkers workers lived. Its number only attraction is "Rosie's Place". Patrons can still sample the...
  
   (Abaco
  Abaco Islands
  The Abaco Islands lie in the northern Bahamas and comprise the main islands of Great Abaco and Little Abaco, together with the smaller Wood Cay, Elbow Cay, Lubbers Quarters Cay, Green Turtle Cay, Great Guana Cay, Castaway Cay, Man-o-War Cay, Stranger's Cay, Umbrella Cay, Walker's Cay, Little Grand...
  
  )
• Harbour Island (Eleuthera
  Eleuthera
  Eleuthera is an island in The Bahamas, lying 50 miles east of Nassau. It is very long and thin—110 miles long and in places little more than a mile wide. According to the 2000 Census, the population of Eleuthera is approximately 8,000...
  
  )
• Hope Town
  Hope Town
  Hope Town features one of the last operational kerosene-fueled lighthouses in the world. This lighthouse was built in 1862 and became operational two years later, it is striped horizontally red and white. Its light can be seen from away....
  
   (Abaco
  Abaco Islands
  The Abaco Islands lie in the northern Bahamas and comprise the main islands of Great Abaco and Little Abaco, together with the smaller Wood Cay, Elbow Cay, Lubbers Quarters Cay, Green Turtle Cay, Great Guana Cay, Castaway Cay, Man-o-War Cay, Stranger's Cay, Umbrella Cay, Walker's Cay, Little Grand...
  
  )
• Inagua
  Inagua
  Inagua is the southernmost district of the Bahamas comprising the islands of Great Inagua and Little Inagua.Great Inagua is the third largest island in The Bahamas at 596 sq mi and lies about 55 miles from the eastern tip of Cuba. The island is about 55 x 19 miles in extent, the highest point...
  
  
• Long Island
  Long Island, Bahamas
  Long Island is an island in the Bahamas that is split by the Tropic of Cancer. Its capital is Clarence Town. Long Island is one of the Districts of the Bahamas and is known as the most scenic island in the Bahamas. The population is roughly 4,000 inhabitants.-Geography:Long Island is about 130...
  
  
• Mangrove Cay
  Mangrove Cay
  Mangrove Cay is one of the districts of the Bahamas, on Andros Island....
  
   (Andros
  Andros, Bahamas
  Andros Island is an archipelago within the archipelago-nation of the Bahamas, the largest of the 26 inhabited Bahamian Islands. Geo-politically considered a single island, Andros has an area greater than all the other 700 Bahamian islands combined...
  
  )
• Mayaguana
  Mayaguana
  Mayaguana is the most easterly island and district of the Bahamas. It is one of only a few Bahamian islands which retain their Lucayan names. The population of Mayaguana in the 2000 census was 259, amounting to an estimate 312 in 2010...
  
  
• Moore's Island
  Moore's Island
  Moore's Island is one of the districts of the Bahamas, on the Abaco Islands.Moore's Island is one of the little cays off the main land of Abaco. It is approximately long and wide and approximately from Abaco...
  
   (Abaco
  Abaco Islands
  The Abaco Islands lie in the northern Bahamas and comprise the main islands of Great Abaco and Little Abaco, together with the smaller Wood Cay, Elbow Cay, Lubbers Quarters Cay, Green Turtle Cay, Great Guana Cay, Castaway Cay, Man-o-War Cay, Stranger's Cay, Umbrella Cay, Walker's Cay, Little Grand...
  
  )
• New Providence
  New Providence
  New Providence is the most populous island in the Bahamas, containing more than 70% of the total population. It also houses the national capital city, Nassau.The island was originally under Spanish control following Christopher Columbus' discovery of the New World, but the Spanish government showed...
  
  
• North Abaco
  North Abaco
  North Abaco is one of the districts of the Bahamas, on the Abaco Islands.Some of the more known settlements within this district include:* Wood Cay* Crown Haven* Cedar Harbour* Coopers Town* Fire Road Village* Black Wood Village* New Plymouth...
  
  
• North Andros
  North Andros
  North Andros is one of the 31 Districts of The Bahamas. It is also the largest district in the country. It has some of the largest settlements on Andros Island and many churches as well.- Churches :...
  
  
• North Eleuthera
  North Eleuthera
  North Eleuthera is one of the districts of the Bahamas, on the island of Eleuthera.Sweetings Pond in North Central Eleuthera is recognized as a site of special ecological value, containing, it is estimated, a concentration of Ophiothrix oerstedi brittlestars at up to 434 individuals per square...
  
  
• Ragged Island
• Rum Cay
  Rum Cay
  Rum Cay is an island and district of the Bahamas. Lat.: N23 42' 30" - Long.: W 74 50' 00" - Size: 30 Sq. mlsRum Cay is 20 miles southwest of San Salvador Island, has many rolling hills that rises to about 120 feet . Christopher Columbus called it Santa Maria de la Concepción. The island is...
  
  
• San Salvador
  San Salvador Island
  San Salvador Island, also known as Watlings Island, is an island and district of the Bahamas. Until 1986, when the National Geographic Society suggested Samana Cay, it was widely believed that during his first expedition to the New World, San Salvador Island was the first land sighted and visited...
  
  
• South Abaco
  South Abaco
  South Abaco is one of the districts of the Bahamas, on the Abaco Islands.-References:...
  
  
• South Andros
  South Andros
  South Andros is a district of the nation of The Bahamas. Geographically, South Andros is the southernmost third of the land mass colloquially called Andros, which includes the districts of North Andros, Central Andros and South Andros...
  
  
• South Eleuthera
  South Eleuthera
  South Eleuthera is one of the districts of the Bahamas, on the island of Eleuthera....
  
  
• Spanish Wells
  Spanish Wells
  Spanish Wells is one of the districts of the Bahamas.Spanish Wells is a small island located approximately one mile off the northern tip of Eleuthera island. It has a population of approximately 1,500 residents. It is so small that many residents get around the island using golf carts instead of...
  
   (Eleuthera
  Eleuthera
  Eleuthera is an island in The Bahamas, lying 50 miles east of Nassau. It is very long and thin—110 miles long and in places little more than a mile wide. According to the 2000 Census, the population of Eleuthera is approximately 8,000...
  
  )
• West Grand Bahama
  West Grand Bahama
  West Grand Bahama is one of 31 districts of The Bahamas. The district covers the entire western portion of Grand Bahama island, excluding the city of Freeport, which forms its own district...
  
  

Municipalities of the Bahamas

• Cities: List of cities in the Bahamas
  • Capital: Nassau

Government and politics of the Bahamas

Main article: Government of the Bahamas and Politics of the Bahamas

Politics of the Bahamas

The politics of the Bahamas takes place within a framework of parliamentary democracy, with a Prime Minister as the head of government. The Bahamas is an independent country and - as a former British colony - a member of the Commonwealth of Nations. Political and legal traditions closely follow...

• Form of government
  Form of government
  A form of government, or form of state governance, refers to the set of political institutions by which a government of a state is organized. Synonyms include "regime type" and "system of government".-Empirical and conceptual problems:...
  
  : parliamentary
  Parliamentary system
  A parliamentary system is a system of government in which the ministers of the executive branch get their democratic legitimacy from the legislature and are accountable to that body, such that the executive and legislative branches are intertwined....
  
   representative democratic
  Representative democracy
  Representative democracy is a form of government founded on the principle of elected individuals representing the people, as opposed to autocracy and direct democracy...
  
   monarchy
  Monarchy
  A monarchy is a form of government in which the office of head of state is usually held until death or abdication and is often hereditary and includes a royal house. In some cases, the monarch is elected...
  
  
• Capital of the Bahamas: Nassau

• Elections in the Bahamas
  Elections in the Bahamas
  Elections in the Bahamas take place in the framework of a parliamentary democracy. Since independence voter turnout has been generally high in national elections, with a low of 87.9% in 1987 and a high of 98.5% in 1997.-Electoral system:...
  
  
  • (specific elections)
• Political parties in the Bahamas
• Political scandals of the Bahamas
• Taxation in the Bahamas

Executive branch of the government of the Bahamas

• Monarchy in the Commonwealth Realms
• Head of state
  Head of State
  A head of state is the individual that serves as the chief public representative of a monarchy, republic, federation, commonwealth or other kind of state. His or her role generally includes legitimizing the state and exercising the political powers, functions, and duties granted to the head of...
  
  : President of the Bahamas,
• Head of government
  Head of government
  Head of government is the chief officer of the executive branch of a government, often presiding over a cabinet. In a parliamentary system, the head of government is often styled prime minister, chief minister, premier, etc...
  
  : Prime Minister of the Bahamas
  Prime Minister of the Bahamas
  This is a list of Prime Ministers and other Heads of Government of the Bahamas.- Office of the Prime Minister :The Prime Minister of the Bahamas is the head of the government of the Bahamas. He is also the Minister of Finance and the Member of Parliament for New Providence and North Abaco...
  
  ,
  • Perry Christie
    Perry Christie
    Perry Gladstone Christie is a Bahamian politician who served as the third Prime Minister of the Bahamas from 2002 to 2007...
    
    
  • Hubert Ingraham
    Hubert Ingraham
    Hubert Alexander Ingraham is the Prime Minister of the Bahamas. He first served as Prime Minister from August 1992 until May 2002 and became Prime Minister again in 2007. He is a member of the Free National Movement Party . The Rt. Hon. Hubert A...
    
    
  • Sir Lynden Oscar Pindling
    Lynden Pindling
    Sir Lynden Oscar Pindling KCMG, OM, JP , is generally regarded as the "Father of the Nation" of the Bahamas, having led it to Majority Rule on 10 January 1967 and then to independence on 10 July 1973. He served as the first black premier of the Colony of the Bahama Islands from 1967 to 1969 and as...
    
    
  • Roland Theodore Symonette
    Roland Theodore Symonette
    Sir Roland Theodore Symonette achieved high office as a Bahamian political figure.Roland "Pop" Symonette was born on the small island settlement of Current, Eleuthera...
    
    
• Cabinet of the Bahamas
  Cabinet of the Bahamas
  The Cabinet constitutes the executive branch and has general direction and control of the Government of The Bahamas. It is necessary for the Cabinet to comprise at least nine Ministers inclusive of the Prime Minister and Attorney General. All Ministers are Members of Parliament of either the House...
  
  

Legislative branch of the government of the Bahamas

• Parliament of the Bahamas
  Parliament of the Bahamas
  The Parliament of The Bahamas is the bicameral national parliament of Commonwealth of The Bahamas. The parliament is formally made up by the Queen , an appointed Senate, and an elected House of Assembly...
  
   (bicameral)
  • Upper house
    Upper house
    An upper house, often called a senate, is one of two chambers of a bicameral legislature, the other chamber being the lower house; a legislature composed of only one house is described as unicameral.- Possible specific characteristics :...
    
    : Senate of the Bahamas
  • Lower house
    Lower house
    A lower house is one of two chambers of a bicameral legislature, the other chamber being the upper house.Despite its official position "below" the upper house, in many legislatures worldwide the lower house has come to wield more power...
    
    : House of Commons of the Bahamas

Judicial branch of the government of the Bahamas

• Supreme Court of the Bahamas
  Supreme Court of the Bahamas
  The Supreme Court of the Bahamas is the third highest court in the adjudicative hierarchy of the Commonwealth of the Bahamas. The court was created by Article 93 of the Constitution. Before that, the Supreme Court was governed by the Supreme Court Act of 1896.The Neo-Georgian style building which...
  
  

Foreign relations of the Bahamas

• Diplomatic missions in the Bahamas
• Diplomatic missions of the Bahamas
  Diplomatic missions of the Bahamas
  This is a list of diplomatic missions of the Bahamas. The Bahamas has a small number of diplomatic missions, as listed below...
  
  
• United States-the Bahamas relations

International organization membership

The Commonwealth of the Bahamas is a member of:

• African, Caribbean, and Pacific Group of States (ACP)
• Agency for the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons in Latin America and the Caribbean (OPANAL)
• Caribbean Community and Common Market (Caricom)
• Caribbean Development Bank
  Caribbean Development Bank
  The Caribbean Development Bank is a financial institution which assists Caribbean nations in financing social and economic programs in its member countries...
  
   (CDB)
• Commonwealth of Nations
  Commonwealth of Nations
  The Commonwealth of Nations, normally referred to as the Commonwealth and formerly known as the British Commonwealth, is an intergovernmental organisation of fifty-four independent member states...
  
  
• Food and Agriculture Organization
  Food and Agriculture Organization
  The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations is a specialised agency of the United Nations that leads international efforts to defeat hunger. Serving both developed and developing countries, FAO acts as a neutral forum where all nations meet as equals to negotiate agreements and...
  
   (FAO)
• Group of 77
  Group of 77
  The Group of 77 at the United Nations is a loose coalition of developing nations, designed to promote its members' collective economic interests and create an enhanced joint negotiating capacity in the United Nations. There were 77 founding members of the organization, but the organization has...
  
   (G77)
• Inter-American Development Bank
  Inter-American Development Bank
  The Inter-American Development Bank is the largest source of development financing for Latin America and the Caribbean...
  
   (IADB)
• International Bank for Reconstruction and Development
  International Bank for Reconstruction and Development
  The International Bank for Reconstruction and Development is one of five institutions that compose the World Bank Group. The IBRD is an international organization whose original mission was to finance the reconstruction of nations devastated by World War II. Now, its mission has expanded to fight...
  
   (IBRD)
• International Civil Aviation Organization
  International Civil Aviation Organization
  The International Civil Aviation Organization , pronounced , , is a specialized agency of the United Nations. It codifies the principles and techniques of international air navigation and fosters the planning and development of international air transport to ensure safe and orderly growth...
  
   (ICAO)
• International Confederation of Free Trade Unions
  International Confederation of Free Trade Unions
  The International Confederation of Free Trade Unions was an international trade union. It came into being on 7 December 1949 following a split within the World Federation of Trade Unions , and was dissolved on 31 October 2006 when it merged with the World Confederation of Labour to form the...
  
   (ICFTU)
• International Criminal Court
  International Criminal Court
  The International Criminal Court is a permanent tribunal to prosecute individuals for genocide, crimes against humanity, war crimes, and the crime of aggression .It came into being on 1 July 2002—the date its founding treaty, the Rome Statute of the...
  
   (ICCt) (signatory)
• International Criminal Police Organization (Interpol)
• International Development Association
  International Development Association
  The International Development Association , is the part of the World Bank that helps the world’s poorest countries. It complements the World Bank's other lending arm — the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development — which serves middle-income countries with capital investment and...
  
   (IDA)
• International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies
  International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies
  The International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies is a humanitarian institution that is part of the International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement along with the ICRC and 186 distinct National Societies...
  
   (IFRCS)
• International Finance Corporation
  International Finance Corporation
  The International Finance Corporation promotes sustainable private sector investment in developing countries.IFC is a member of the World Bank Group and is headquartered in Washington, D.C., United States....
  
   (IFC)
• International Fund for Agricultural Development
  International Fund for Agricultural Development
  The International Fund for Agricultural Development , a specialized agency of the United Nations, was established as an international financial institution in 1977 as one of the major outcomes of the 1974 World Food Conference. IFAD is dedicated to eradicating rural poverty in developing countries...
  
   (IFAD)
• International Labour Organization
  International Labour Organization
  The International Labour Organization is a specialized agency of the United Nations that deals with labour issues pertaining to international labour standards. Its headquarters are in Geneva, Switzerland. Its secretariat — the people who are employed by it throughout the world — is known as the...
  
   (ILO)
• International Maritime Organization
  International Maritime Organization
  The International Maritime Organization , formerly known as the Inter-Governmental Maritime Consultative Organization , was established in Geneva in 1948, and came into force ten years later, meeting for the first time in 1959...
  
   (IMO)
• International Mobile Satellite Organization
  International Mobile Satellite Organization
  The International Mobile Satellite Organization is the intergovernmental organization that oversees certain public satellite safety and security communication services provided via the Inmarsat satellites...
  
   (IMSO)
• International Monetary Fund
  International Monetary Fund
  The International Monetary Fund is an organization of 187 countries, working to foster global monetary cooperation, secure financial stability, facilitate international trade, promote high employment and sustainable economic growth, and reduce poverty around the world...
  
   (IMF)
• International Olympic Committee
  International Olympic Committee
  The International Olympic Committee is an international corporation based in Lausanne, Switzerland, created by Pierre de Coubertin on 23 June 1894 with Demetrios Vikelas as its first president...
  
   (IOC)

• International Organization for Migration
  International Organization for Migration
  The International Organization for Migration is an intergovernmental organization. It was initially established in 1951 as the Intergovernmental Committee for European Migration to help resettle people displaced by World War II....
  
   (IOM)
• International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement
  International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement
  The International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement is an international humanitarian movement with approximately 97 million volunteers, members and staff worldwide which was founded to protect human life and health, to ensure respect for all human beings, and to prevent and alleviate human...
  
   (ICRM)
• International Telecommunication Union
  International Telecommunication Union
  The International Telecommunication Union is the specialized agency of the United Nations which is responsible for information and communication technologies...
  
   (ITU)
• International Telecommunications Satellite Organization
  International Telecommunications Satellite Organization
  The International Telecommunications Satellite Organization is an intergovernmental organisation charged with overseeing the public service obligations of Intelsat.-External links:*...
  
   (ITSO)
• Latin American Economic System
  Latin American Economic System
  The Latin American and the Caribbean Economic System, officially known as Sistema Económico Latinoamericano y del Caribe , is an organization founded in 1975 to promote economic cooperation and social development between Latin American and the Caribbean countries...
  
   (LAES)
• Multilateral Investment Guarantee Agency
  Multilateral Investment Guarantee Agency
  The Multilateral Investment Guarantee Agency is a member organization of the World Bank Group that offers political risk insurance. It was established to promote foreign direct investment into developing countries. MIGA was founded in 1988 with a capital base of $1 billion and is headquartered in...
  
   (MIGA)
• Nonaligned Movement (NAM)
• Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) (signatory)
• Organization of American States
  Organization of American States
  The Organization of American States is a regional international organization, headquartered in Washington, D.C., United States...
  
   (OAS)
• United Nations
  United Nations
  The United Nations is an international organization whose stated aims are facilitating cooperation in international law, international security, economic development, social progress, human rights, and achievement of world peace...
  
   (UN)
• United Nations Conference on Trade and Development
  United Nations Conference on Trade and Development
  The United Nations Conference on Trade and Development was established in 1964 as a permanent intergovernmental body. It is the principal organ of the United Nations General Assembly dealing with trade, investment, and development issues....
  
   (UNCTAD)
• United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization (UNESCO)
• United Nations Industrial Development Organization
  United Nations Industrial Development Organization
  The United Nations Industrial Development Organization , French/Spanish acronym ONUDI, is a specialized agency in the United Nations system, headquartered in Vienna, Austria...
  
   (UNIDO)
• Universal Postal Union
  Universal Postal Union
  The Universal Postal Union is an international organization that coordinates postal policies among member nations, in addition to the worldwide postal system. The UPU contains four bodies consisting of the Congress, the Council of Administration , the Postal Operations Council and the...
  
   (UPU)
• World Customs Organization
  World Customs Organization
  The World Customs Organization is an intergovernmental organization headquartered in Brussels, Belgium. With its worldwide membership, the WCO is recognized as the voice of the global customs community...
  
   (WCO)
• World Federation of Trade Unions
  World Federation of Trade Unions
  The World Federation of Trade Unions was established in 1945 to replace the International Federation of Trade Unions. Its mission was to bring together trade unions across the world in a single international organization, much like the United Nations...
  
   (WFTU)
• World Health Organization
  World Health Organization
  The World Health Organization is a specialized agency of the United Nations that acts as a coordinating authority on international public health. Established on 7 April 1948, with headquarters in Geneva, Switzerland, the agency inherited the mandate and resources of its predecessor, the Health...
  
   (WHO)
• World Intellectual Property Organization
  World Intellectual Property Organization
  The World Intellectual Property Organization is one of the 17 specialized agencies of the United Nations. WIPO was created in 1967 "to encourage creative activity, to promote the protection of intellectual property throughout the world"....
  
   (WIPO)
• World Meteorological Organization
  World Meteorological Organization
  The World Meteorological Organization is an intergovernmental organization with a membership of 189 Member States and Territories. It originated from the International Meteorological Organization , which was founded in 1873...
  
   (WMO)
• World Tourism Organization
  World Tourism Organization
  The World Tourism Organization , based in Madrid, Spain, is a United Nations agency dealing with questions relating to tourism. It compiles the World Tourism rankings. The World Tourism Organization is a significant global body, concerned with the collection and collation of statistical information...
  
   (UNWTO)
• World Trade Organization
  World Trade Organization
  The World Trade Organization is an organization that intends to supervise and liberalize international trade. The organization officially commenced on January 1, 1995 under the Marrakech Agreement, replacing the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade , which commenced in 1948...
  
   (WTO) (observer)

Law and order in the Bahamas

Main article: Law of the Bahamas

Law of the Bahamas

English common law forms the basis of the Bahamas’ judicial system.The highest court is the Court of Appeal, consisting of three judges. The Supreme Court is composed of a chief justice, two senior justices, and six justices. The governor-general makes High Court appointments. Ultimate appeals go...

• Capital punishment in the Bahamas
• Constitution of the Bahamas
• Crime in the Bahamas
• Human rights in the Bahamas
  • LGBT rights in the Bahamas
  • Freedom of religion in the Bahamas
• Law enforcement in the Bahamas

Military of the Bahamas

Main article: Military of the Bahamas

• Command
  • Commander-in-chief
    Commander-in-Chief
    A commander-in-chief is the commander of a nation's military forces or significant element of those forces. In the latter case, the force element may be defined as those forces within a particular region or those forces which are associated by function. As a practical term it refers to the military...
    
    
    • Ministry of Defence of the Bahamas
• Forces
  • Army of the Bahamas
  • Navy of the Bahamas
  • Air Force of the Bahamas
  • Special forces of the Bahamas
• Military history of the Bahamas
• Military ranks of the Bahamas

History of the Bahamas

Main article: History of the Bahamas

History of the Bahamas

The history of the Bahamas begins with the earliest arrival of humans in the islands in the first millennium AD. The first inhabitants of the islands now known as The Bahamas were the Lucayans, an Arawakan-speaking Taino people, who arrived between about 500 and 800 from the islands of the Caribbean...

• Battle of Nassau
  Battle of Nassau
  The Battle of Nassau was a naval action and amphibious assault by American forces against the British port of Nassau, Bahamas during the American Revolutionary War...
  
  
• Colonial Heads of the Bahamas
  Colonial heads of the Bahamas
  This is a list of colonial heads of the Bahamas. The first English settlement in the Bahamas was on Eleuthera. In 1670, the king granted the Bahamas to the Lords Proprietors of the Province of Carolina, but the islands were left to themselves. The local pirates proclaimed a 'Privateers'...
  
  
• Fresh Creek
  Fresh Creek
  Fresh Creek was a district of the Bahamas before 1996.It consisted of the central portion of the island of Andros. The population was 2,576.New districts were created on Andros in 1996. Fresh Creek district was roughly replaced by Central Andros....
  
  
• Guanahani
  Guanahani
  Guanahani was the name the natives gave to the island that Christopher Columbus called San Salvador when he arrived at the Americas. Columbus reached the island on 12 October 1492, the first island he sighted and visited in the Americas...
  
  
• Kemps Bay
  Kemps Bay
  Kemps Bay is a town on the island of Andros in the Bahamas and, before 1996, was also a district of the Bahamas.The district consisted of the southern portion of the island. Its population in 2000 was 1,666 – the census recorded exactly equal numbers of males and females.New districts were created...
  
  
• Nichollstown and Berry Islands
  Nichollstown and Berry Islands
  Nichollstown and Berry Islands was a district of the Bahamas.It consisted of the northern portion of the island of Andros, a population of 3,444, together with the nearby Berry Islands ....
  
  
• Postage stamps and postal history of the Bahamas
  Postage stamps and postal history of the Bahamas
  The postal history of the Bahamas begins in the 18th century, with the earliest known letters dating from the 1760s. In 1804 a straight-line "BAHAMAS" handstamp came into use...
  
  
• San Salvador and Rum Cay
  San Salvador and Rum Cay
  San Salvador and Rum Cay is a former district of the Bahamas.The Main settlement in Rum Cay is Port Nelson.In 1996 it was divided into separate districts of San Salvador and Rum Cay....
  
  

Hurricanes in the Bahamas

• Nassau Hurricane of 1926
  Nassau Hurricane of 1926
  The Nassau Hurricane of 1926, also known as the Bahamas-Florida Hurricane of July 1926 and Hurricane San Liborio, was a destructive Category 4 hurricane that affected the Bahamas at peak intensity...
  
  
• 1926 Miami Hurricane
  1926 Miami Hurricane
  The 1926 Miami hurricane was a Category 4 hurricane that devastated Miami in September 1926. The storm also caused significant damage in the Florida Panhandle, the U.S. state of Alabama, and the Bahamas...
  
  
• 1928 Okeechobee Hurricane
  1928 Okeechobee Hurricane
  The Okeechobee hurricane, or San Felipe Segundo hurricane, was a deadly hurricane that struck the Leeward Islands, Puerto Rico, the Bahamas, and Florida in September of the 1928 Atlantic hurricane season...
  
  
• 1929 Florida Hurricane
  1929 Florida Hurricane
  The 1929 Bahamas Hurricane was the second hurricane and the only major hurricane during the very inactive 1929 Atlantic hurricane season. The hurricane was the only hurricane to cause any significant damage, resulting in $676,000 in damage...
  
  
• 1947 Fort Lauderdale Hurricane
  1947 Fort Lauderdale Hurricane
  The Fort Lauderdale Hurricane was an intense Category 5 hurricane that affected the Bahamas, Florida, Louisiana, and Mississippi in September of the 1947 Atlantic hurricane season...
  
  
• Hurricane Andrew
  Hurricane Andrew
  Hurricane Andrew was the third Category 5 hurricane to make landfall in the United States, after the Labor Day Hurricane of 1935 and Hurricane Camille in 1969. Andrew was the first named storm and only major hurricane of the otherwise inactive 1992 Atlantic hurricane season...
  
  
• Bahamas-Nantucket Hurricane of 1932
  Bahamas-Nantucket Hurricane of 1932
  The 1932 Bahamas Hurricane was a powerful Category 5 hurricane that struck the Bahamas at peak intensity. The storm never made landfall on the continental United States, but its effects were felt in the northeast part of the country and in the Bahamas, especially on the Abaco Islands, where damage...
  
  
• Hurricane Betsy (1956)
  Hurricane Betsy (1956)
  Hurricane Betsy in 1956 was the first Atlantic hurricane to make landfall in Puerto Rico in 24 years. The third tropical cyclone of the 1956 Atlantic hurricane season, Betsy developed from a tropical wave on August 9 to the east of the Lesser Antilles. It rapidly developed into a...
  
  
• Hurricane Betsy
  Hurricane Betsy
  Hurricane Betsy was a Category 4 hurricane of the 1965 Atlantic hurricane season which caused enormous damage in the Bahamas, Florida, and Louisiana. Betsy made its most intense landfall near the mouth of the Mississippi River, causing significant flooding of the waters of Lake Pontchartrain into...
  
  
• Hurricane David
  Hurricane David
  Hurricane David was the fourth named tropical cyclone, second hurricane, and first major hurricane of the 1979 Atlantic hurricane season. A Category 5 hurricane on the Saffir-Simpson Hurricane Scale, David was among the deadliest hurricanes in the latter half of the 20th century, killing...
  
  
• Hurricane Gracie
  Hurricane Gracie
  Hurricane Gracie was a major hurricane that formed in September 1959, the strongest during the 1959 Atlantic hurricane season and the most intense to strike the United States since Hurricane Hazel in 1954...
  
  
• Hurricane Hortense
  Hurricane Hortense
  Hurricane Hortense was the eighth tropical storm, sixth hurricane, and second Category 4 hurricane of the 1996 Atlantic hurricane season. Lasting from September 3 to September 16, Hortense brought torrential flooding as it moved through the Lesser Antilles, Puerto Rico, and Dominican Republic...
  
  
• Hurricane Inez
  Hurricane Inez
  Hurricane Inez was a deadly, destructive, powerful and very long-lived Cape Verde-type hurricane that carved an erratic path through the Lesser Antilles, Hispaniola, Cuba, the Bahamas, Florida, and Mexico in 1966...
  
  
• Hurricane Lili (1996)
  Hurricane Lili (1996)
  Hurricane Lili was a relatively long-lived hurricane during the very active 1996 Atlantic hurricane season. Lili formed on October 14 from a tropical wave, which emerged from the coast of west Africa on October 4. The tropical wave which developed into Lili was slow to form due to unfavorable wind...
  
  
• Hurricane Floyd
  Hurricane Floyd
  Hurricane Floyd was the sixth named storm, fourth hurricane, and third major hurricane in the 1999 Atlantic hurricane season. Floyd triggered the third largest evacuation in US history when 2.6 million coastal residents of five states were ordered from their homes as it approached...
  
  
• Hurricane Irene (2011)
  Hurricane Irene (2011)
  Hurricane Irene was a large and powerful Atlantic hurricane that left extensive flood and wind damage along its path through the Caribbean, the United States East Coast and as far north as Atlantic Canada in 2011...
  
  

Culture of the Bahamas

Main article: Culture of the Bahamas

Culture of the Bahamas

Bahamian culture is a hybrid of African, European, and other cultures. During the past thirty years the culture has become increasingly influenced by the Hip-Hop culture of United States....

• Architecture of the Bahamas
  • Lighthouses in The Bahamas
• Cuisine of the Bahamas
• Ethnic minorities in the Bahamas
• Festivals in the Bahamas
• Gambling in the Bahamas
  • Casinos in the Bahamas
  • Atlantis Paradise Island
    Atlantis Paradise Island
    The Atlantis Paradise Island is a resort and waterpark located on Paradise Island, The Bahamas. Officially opened in 1998, the resort was created by South African hotel magnate Sol Kerzner and Kerzner International Limited. Paradise Island first opened its Coral and Beach Towers as the Trump...
    
    
  • Baha Mar
    Baha Mar
    Baha Mar is a resort located on the island of New Providence, The Bahamas owned by Baha Mar Resorts Ltd. and managed by CEO Sarkis Izmirlian. On 30 March 2010 an agreement on the redevelopment of the resort was announced. The project will be financed by China Exim Bank while construction will be...
    
    
• Humor in the Bahamas
• Languages of the Bahamas
• Media in the Bahamas
• National symbols of the Bahamas
  • Coat of arms of the Bahamas
    Coat of arms of the Bahamas
    The coat of arms of the Bahamas contains a shield with the national symbols as its focal point, the shield is supported by a marlin and flamingo....
    
    
  • Flag of the Bahamas
    Flag of the Bahamas
    The flag of the Bahamas has an approximately 1:2 aspect ratio. The black equilateral triangle on the left represents the unity and determination of the people of the Bahamas. The triangle is oriented toward three equal-width stripes symbolizing areas of natural resource; two aquamarine stripes at...
    
    
  • National anthem of the Bahamas: March On, Bahamaland
    March On, Bahamaland
    March On, Bahamaland is the national anthem of the Bahamas. It was composed by Timothy Gibson and adopted in 1973.-Lyrics:...
    
    
• People of the Bahamas
  Demographics of the Bahamas
  This article is about the demographic features of the population of The Bahamas, including population density, ethnicity, education level, health of the populace, economic status, religious affiliations and other aspects of the population....
  
  
• Prostitution in the Bahamas
• Public holidays in the Bahamas
• Records of the Bahamas
• Religion in the Bahamas
  Religion in the Bahamas
  More than 90 percent of the population of the Bahamas professes a religion, and anecdotal evidence suggests that most attend services regularly. Religion in the Bahamas reflects the country's diversity...
  
  
  • Buddhism in the Bahamas
  • Christianity in the Bahamas
    • Catholicism in the Bahamas
      • Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Nassau
        Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Nassau
        The Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Nassau is an archdiocese of the Latin Rite of the Roman Catholic Church in the Caribbean. The diocese encompasses the islands of the former British dependency of the Bahamas...
        
        
  • Hinduism in the Bahamas
  • Islam in the Bahamas
  • Judaism in the Bahamas
  • Sikhism in the Bahamas
• Scouting in the Bahamas
  • The Scout Association of the Bahamas
    The Scout Association of the Bahamas
    The Scout Association of the Bahamas, the national Scouting organization of the Bahamas, was brought to the Bahamas by the British and was officially founded in 1913, and became a member of the World Organization of the Scout Movement in 1974...
    
    
• World Heritage Sites in the Bahamas: None

Art in the Bahamas

• Art in the Bahamas
• Cinema of the Bahamas
• Literature of the Bahamas
• Music of the Bahamas
  Music of the Bahamas
  The music of the Bahamas is associated primarily with junkanoo, a celebration which occurs on Boxing Day and again on New Year's Day. Parades and other celebrations mark the ceremony...
  
  
  • Baha Men
    Baha Men
    The Baha Men are Bahamian singers in a Bahamian band. They play a modernised style of Bahamian music called Junkanoo.-Early career as High Voltage :...
    
    
  • Eric Gibson
    Eric Gibson
    "King" Eric Gibson is a Bahamian musician and entrepreneur. He is also the semiofficial Ambassador of Bahamian Goodwill.Gibson was born on the small island of Acklins to a musical family, although he didn't pursue music until his adulthood...
    
    
  • Junkanoo
    Junkanoo
    Junkanoo is a street parade with music, which occurs in many towns across The Bahamas and The Turks and Caicos Islands every Boxing Day , New Year's Day and, more recently, in the summer on the island of Grand Bahama. The largest Junkanoo parade happens in Nassau, the capital...
    
    
  • Music of The Bahamas
    Music of The Bahamas (docu-musical)
    Music of The Bahamas is a docu-musical adapted from E. Clement Bethel's master's thesis in ethnomusicology. Written by Nicolette Bethel and Philip A. Burrows. Directed by Philip A. Burrows....
    
     (docu-musical)
  • Ripsaw music
    Ripsaw music
    Ripsaw is a musical genre which originated in the Turks and Caicos Islands, specifically in the Middle and North Caicos. A very closely related variant, rake-and-scrape, is played in the Bahamas...
    
    
• Television in the Bahamas
• Theatre in the Bahamas

People of the Bahamas

• Milo Butler
  Milo Butler
  Milo Butler, GCMG was a Bahamian administrator. He was appointed as the first Bahamian Governor-General on the recommendation of Lynden Pindling, prime minister of The Bahamas and leader of the Progressive Liberal Party , of which he was also a member...
  
  
• R.E. Cooper, Sr. (Baptist Clergy and Civil Rights Activist)
• Clifford Darling
  Clifford Darling
  Sir Clifford Darling GCVO was the fourth Governor-General of the Bahamas from 1992 until his retirement on January 2, 1995. Prior to this, he was a Senator from 1964–67, Deputy Speaker of the House of Assembly from 1967-69, Minister of: State in 1969, Labour and Welfare in 1971 and Labour and...
  
  
• Arthur Hailey
  Arthur Hailey
  Arthur Hailey was a British/Canadian novelist.- Biography :Born in Luton, Bedfordshire, England, Hailey served in the Royal Air Force from the start of World War II during 1939 until 1947, when he went to live in Canada. Hailey's last novel, Detective , is a mystery told from the perspective of a...
  
  
• Arthur Dion Hanna
  Arthur Dion Hanna
  Arthur Dion "A.D." Hanna is a Bahamian politician who served as Governor-General of the Bahamas from 2006 to 2010.Hanna has been active in Bahamian politics since the 1950s...
  
  
• Viktor Kožený
  Viktor Kožený
  Viktor Kožený is a Czech-born fugitive financier. He graduated from Harvard in 1989 with a bachelor's degree in economics. Viktor Kožený is officially an Irish citizen imprisoned in the Bahamas in 2005 but released in 2007. Efforts to bring him to justice stem from both the Czech Republic and the...
  
  
• Joe Lewis (British businessman)
• Sidney Poitier
  Sidney Poitier
  Sir Sidney Poitier, KBE is a Bahamian American actor, film director, author, and diplomat.In 1963, Poitier became the first black person to win an Academy Award for Best Actor for his role in Lilies of the Field...
  
  
• Orville Alton Turnquest

Sport in the Bahamas

Main article: Sports in the Bahamas

• Bahamas at the 2006 Commonwealth Games
  Bahamas at the 2006 Commonwealth Games
  The Bahamas is represented at the 2006 Commonwealth Games in Melbourne by a xx-member strong contingent comprising 28 sportspersons and xx officials.-Silver:* Laverne Eve — Athletics, Women's Javelin Throw...
  
  

Bahamas at the Commonwealth Games

• Bahamas at the 1958 British Empire and Commonwealth Games
  Bahamas at the 1958 British Empire and Commonwealth Games
  The Bahamas was represented at the 1958 British Empire and Commonwealth Games in Cardiff by one competitor, Tom Robinson, who won gold in the 200 yards dash and silver in the 100 yards dash....
  
  
• Bahamas at the 2002 Commonwealth Games
  Bahamas at the 2002 Commonwealth Games
  Bahamas at the 2002 Commonwealth Games was represented by Bahamas Olympic Association and abbreviated BAH.Bahamas first attended the Commonwealth Games back in 1954 in Vancouver, Canada, although this coral archipelago of around 700 islands did not join the Commonwealth until 1973.Since its...
  
  
• Bahamas at the 2006 Commonwealth Games
  Bahamas at the 2006 Commonwealth Games
  The Bahamas is represented at the 2006 Commonwealth Games in Melbourne by a xx-member strong contingent comprising 28 sportspersons and xx officials.-Silver:* Laverne Eve — Athletics, Women's Javelin Throw...
  
  

Football in the Bahamas

• Football in the Bahamas
  Football in the Bahamas
  The sport of football in the country of Bahamas is run by the Bahamas Football Association. The association administers the Bahamas national football team....
  
  
• Bahamas Football Association
  Bahamas Football Association
  The Bahamas Football Association is the official football federation in The Bahamas. It was founded in 1967 for men, women, and children to learn more about football. It affiliated with FIFA in 1968 and CONCACAF in 1981. The headquarters are in Nassau. The federation is also in charge of its...
  
  
• Bahamas national football team
  Bahamas national football team
  The Bahamas national football team is the national team of the Bahamas and is controlled by the Bahamas Football Association.-World Cup record:*1930 to 1994 – Did not enter*1998 – Withdrew*2002 to 2010 – Did not qualify*2014 – Withdrew...
  
  
• Gary White (football)
  Gary White (football)
  Gary White is a UEFA 'A' Licensed professional soccer coach with FIFA international experience and is the current technical director for Washington Youth Soccer. In October 2011 he was hand selected as one of only sixteen coaches globally by The FA to attend their new prestigious Elite Coaching...
  
  

Bahamian football clubs

• Bahamas Shrimp Wranglers
  Bahamas Shrimp Wranglers
  Bahamas Shrimp Wranglers are a Grand Bahama Football League team that came in 3rd place during the 2005 Season....
  
  
• Freeport F.C.
  Freeport F.C.
  Freeport Rugby Football Club are one of the five men's teams in the Grand Bahama Football League, representing their home city of Freeport, Bahamas....
  
  
• Freeport Jet Wash Jets
  Freeport Jet Wash Jets
  The Freeport Jet Wash Jets are one of the four women's GBFL franchises that play in Freeport, Bahamas. They share the same field with Freeport F.C....
  
  
• Playtime Tigers
  Playtime Tigers
  The Playtime Tiger Football Club are one of the five teams in the Grand Bahama Football League. During the regular season they came 5th place....
  
  
• Quality Superstars
  Quality Superstars
  The Quality Superstars are a Grand Bahama Football League team.-Achievements:*Grand Bahama Football League: 1...
  
  
• Town & Country Predators
  Town & Country Predators
  The Town and Country Predators are a Grand Bahama Football League club currently placed in Lucaya, Bahamas....
  
  

Bahamian football competitions

• Grand Bahama Football League
  Grand Bahama Football League
  The Grand Bahama Football League is the highest form of association football on the Bahamian island of Grand Bahama. The league is divided into two divisions, the men's league and the woman's league. The men's league with 7 teams and the woman's league with 4 teams...
  
  
• New Providence Football League
  New Providence Football League
  The New Providence Football League is the highest form of football on the island of New Providence.There are also women's leagues in New Providence and Grand Bahama.After a season's gap, the WFL was formed in New Providence in 2006...
  
  

Bahamas at the Olympics

• The Bahamas at the Olympics
• Bahamas at the 1956 Summer Olympics
  Bahamas at the 1956 Summer Olympics
  The Bahamas competed at the 1956 Summer Olympics in Melbourne, Australia.- Bronze:* Sloan Farrington and Durward Knowles — Sailing, Star class-Athletics:Men's 100 metres*Tom Robinson-References:***...
  
  
• Bahamas at the 1964 Summer Olympics
  Bahamas at the 1964 Summer Olympics
  The Bahamas competed at the 1964 Summer Olympics in Tokyo, Japan. The nation won its first ever Olympic gold medal.- Gold:* Durward Knowles and Cecil Cooke — Sailing, Star Class-Athletics:Men's 100 metres*Tom Robinson-References:***...
  
  
• Bahamas at the 1988 Summer Olympics
  Bahamas at the 1988 Summer Olympics
  The Bahamas competed at the 1988 Summer Olympics in Seoul, Korea.- Athletics :Men's Long Jump* Steve Hanna* Qualification — 7.54m Men's Discus Throw* Bradley Cooper...
  
  
• Bahamas at the 1992 Summer Olympics
  Bahamas at the 1992 Summer Olympics
  - Bronze:* Frank Rutherford — Athletics, Men's Triple Jump- Athletics:Men's High Jump*Troy Kemp*Ian ThompsonMen's Triple Jump*Frank Rutherford* Qualification — 17.28 m* Final — 17.36 m *Wendell Lawrence...
  
  
• Bahamas at the 1996 Summer Olympics
  Bahamas at the 1996 Summer Olympics
  The Bahamas competed at the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta, United States.- Silver:* Eldece Clark-Lewis, Chandra Sturrup, Sevatheda Fynes and Pauline Davis-Thompson — Athletics, Women's 4×100 metres relay-Athletics:Men's 4x400m Relay...
  
  
• Bahamas at the 2000 Summer Olympics
  Bahamas at the 2000 Summer Olympics
  - Gold:*Pauline Davis-Thompson, Debbie Ferguson, Sevatheda Fynes, and Chandra Sturrup — Athletics, Women's 4x100 m relay*Pauline Davis-Thompson — Athletics, Women's 200 m-Athletics:Men's 100m* Renward Wells*# Round 1 - 10.47...
  
  
• Bahamas at the 2004 Summer Olympics
  Bahamas at the 2004 Summer Olympics
  The Bahamas competed at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens, Greece.Bahamian athletes are traditionally strongest in the track and field events, where numerous athletes, including Tonique Williams-Darling, Chandra Sturrup, Debbie Ferguson, and Chris Brown all entered the Games as medal contenders in...
  
  

Economy and infrastructure of the Bahamas

Main article: Economy of the Bahamas

Economy of the Bahamas

The Bahamas is a stable, developing nation with an economy heavily dependent on tourism and offshore banking. Steady growth in tourism receipts and a boom in construction of new hotels, resorts, and residences had led to solid GDP growth in recent years, but the slowdown in the US economy and the...

• Economic rank, by nominal GDP (2007): 132nd (one hundred and thirty second)

• Agriculture in the Bahamas
  Agriculture in the Bahamas
  Agriculture in the Bahamas is carried out on small plots throughout most of the islands. Only about 1% of the land area is cultivated. The nature of the terrain limits the scope of farming, which is mainly a household industry. The main crops are vegetables: onions, okra, and tomatoes, the last two...
  
  
• Banking in the Bahamas
  • National Bank of the Bahamas
• Communications in the Bahamas
  Communications in the Bahamas
  Telephones - main lines in use: 132,900 county comparison to the world: 135Telephones - mobile cellular: 374,000 county comparison to the world: 155Telephone system:general assessment: modern facilities...
  
  
  • Internet in the Bahamas
    • .bs
      .bs
      .bs is the Internet country code top-level domain for the Bahamas. It is administered by the College of the Bahamas.-Second level domains:There are five Second Level Domains:*com.bs: Commercial Entities*net.bs: Network Providers...
      
       Internet
      Internet
      The Internet is a global system of interconnected computer networks that use the standard Internet protocol suite to serve billions of users worldwide...
      
       country code top-level domain
      Country code top-level domain
      A country code top-level domain is an Internet top-level domain generally used or reserved for a country, a sovereign state, or a dependent territory....
      
       for the Bahamas
  • Telephone communications in the Bahamas
    • Area code 242
      Area code 242
      Area code 242 is the local telephone area code of The Bahamas. The 242 area code, or BHA, was created during a split from the original 809 area code which was done in October 1996....
      
      
  • Postal service in the Bahamas
    • Postage stamps and postal history of the Bahamas
      Postage stamps and postal history of the Bahamas
      The postal history of the Bahamas begins in the 18th century, with the earliest known letters dating from the 1760s. In 1804 a straight-line "BAHAMAS" handstamp came into use...
      
      
      • List of people on stamps of the Bahamas
  • Television in the Bahamas
    • List of television stations in the Bahamas by call sign
• Companies of the Bahamas
  • BaTelCo (Bahamas)
    BaTelCo (Bahamas)
    BaTelCo is the primary telecommunications provider for the Bahamas. It is fully government owned and offers telephone, internet and wireless services.BaTelCo is an acronym for the Bahamas Telecommunications Company, now simply referred to as BTC...
    
    
  • Bahamas Electricity Corporation
    Bahamas Electricity Corporation
    The Bahamas Electricity Corporation - is a government corporation that provides electricity to all of the Bahama Islands except for Grand Bahama. The current Minister in charge is the Minister of Public Works and Utilities, the Hon. Phenton Neymour and General Manager Kevin Basden...
    
    
  • Bahamasair
    Bahamasair
    Bahamasair Holdings Limited, operating as Bahamasair, is an airline based in the Bahamasair House in Nassau, Bahamas. It is the national airline and operates domestic scheduled services to 15 destinations and regional scheduled services to Havana and four cities in Florida. Its main base is Lynden...
    
    
  • Bahama Hand Prints
• Currency of the Bahamas
  Currency
  In economics, currency refers to a generally accepted medium of exchange. These are usually the coins and banknotes of a particular government, which comprise the physical aspects of a nation's money supply...
  
  : Dollar
  Bahamian dollar
  The dollar has been the currency of The Bahamas since 1966. It is normally abbreviated with the dollar sign $, or alternatively B$ to distinguish it from other dollar-denominated currencies. It is divided into 100 cents....
  
  
  • Bahamian pound
    Bahamian pound
    The pound was the currency of the Bahamas until 1966. It was equivalent to the pound sterling and was divided into 20 shillings, each of 12 pence. Ordinary UK coinage circulated...
    
     (historical)
  • ISO 4217
    ISO 4217
    ISO 4217 is a standard published by the International Standards Organization, which delineates currency designators, country codes , and references to minor units in three tables:* Table A.1 – Current currency & funds code list...
    
    : BSD
• Economic history of the Bahamas
• Energy in the Bahamas
  • Energy policy of the Bahamas
  • Oil industry in the Bahamas
• Health care in the Bahamas
• Mining in the Bahamas
• Bahamas Stock Exchange
• Trade unions of the Bahamas
  • Bahamas Hotel, Catering and Allied Workers Union
    Bahamas Hotel, Catering and Allied Workers Union
    Bahamas Hotel, Catering and Allied Workers Union is a trade union organizing employees in the tourism sector in The Bahamas.Leadership:*President: Roy Colebrooke*1st Vice President:*General Secretary: Leo DouglasThe union is affiliated to IUF....
    
    
  • Bahamas Taxi Cab Union
    Bahamas Taxi Cab Union
    Bahamas Taxi Cab Union is a trade union organizing taxi drivers in the Bahamas.The former Governor-General of The Commonwealth of The Bahamas, Clifford Darling, was at one point a cab driver, and served as both the general secretary and president of the Bahamas Taxi Cab union....
    
    
  • Commonwealth of the Bahamas Trade Union Congress
    Commonwealth of the Bahamas Trade Union Congress
    Commonwealth of the Bahamas Trade Union Congress is a central trade union federation in The Bahamas.Leadership:*President: Obie Ferguson Jr.*General Secretary: Timothy Moore...
    
    
  • National Congress of Trade Unions
    National Congress of Trade Unions
    National Congress of Trade Unions is a central trade union federation in the Bahamas. It was founded by Dr. Leroy "Duke" Hanna on 10 November 1995....
    
    
  • Tourism in the Bahamas
  • Transport in the Bahamas
    Transport in the Bahamas
    -Highways:Approximately of road in the Bahamas is classified as highway. Of these, approximately are paved. As a former British colony, drivers drive on the left.-Ports and harbours:...
    
    
• Air transport in the Bahamas
  • • Airlines of the Bahamas
      • Bahamasair
        Bahamasair
        Bahamasair Holdings Limited, operating as Bahamasair, is an airline based in the Bahamasair House in Nassau, Bahamas. It is the national airline and operates domestic scheduled services to 15 destinations and regional scheduled services to Havana and four cities in Florida. Its main base is Lynden...
        
        
      • Western Air
        Western Air
        Western Air Limited is an airline with its headquarters on the grounds of San Andros Airport in Andros Island, Bahamas. It was established in 2001 by Rex and Shandrice Rolle, currently the firm's president and CEO and vice president and COO, respectively....
        
        
      • Sky Bahamas
      • Pineapple Air
      • Southern Air Charter
        Southern Air Charter
        Southern Air Charter is an airline and air charter company, operating in the Bahamas. They mainly fly air charters, but the airline does offer some scheduled intra-island services between destinations in the Bahamas.- Fleet :...
        
        
      • LeAir
      • Cat Island Air
    • Airports in the Bahamas
      • Exuma International Airport
        Exuma International Airport
        Exuma International Airport is a public airport serving the island of Great Exuma in the Bahamas. It is located near Moss Town, northwest of George Town. The airport services mainly light aircraft and regional jets from the United States and The Bahamas....
        
        
      • Grand Bahama International Airport
        Grand Bahama International Airport
        Grand Bahama International Airport is a privately owned international airport in Freeport, Bahamas. The airport is a joint venture between Hutchison Port Holdings and The Port Group...
        
        
      • Lynden Pindling International Airport
        Lynden Pindling International Airport
        - Trivia :During World War II,it was known as Windsor Field used by the Royal Air Force Transferring Fighter and Bomber aircraft such as the B-17, B-24, and the P-40 from New Providence to Italian, North African and European Theatres of War and as a station for Consolidated Liberator I and North...
        
        
      • San Salvador Airport
        San Salvador Airport
        San Salvador Airport , also known as Cockburn Town Airport, is an airport in San Salvador, Bahamas.San Salvador International Airport is one of the few airports in the Bahamas that has Instrument rating landing for airplanes, and as a result aircraft can now land at ZSA after official sunset...
        
        
  • Rail transport in the Bahamas
  • Roads in the Bahamas
• Water supply and sanitation in the Bahamas

Education in the Bahamas

Main article: Education in the Bahamas

Education in the Bahamas

Education in the Bahamas is compulsory between the ages of 5 and 16. As of 2003, the school attendance rate was 92% and the literacy rate was 95.5%. The government fully operates 158 of the 210 primary and secondary schools in The Bahamas. The other 52 schools are privately operated...

• College of the Bahamas
  College of the Bahamas
  The College of The Bahamas is the national public institution of higher education in The Commonwealth of The Bahamas with campuses throughout the archipelago. The main campus is located in the capital city of Nassau, on the island of New Providence....
  
  

Specific Bahamian people

• Milo Butler
  Milo Butler
  Milo Butler, GCMG was a Bahamian administrator. He was appointed as the first Bahamian Governor-General on the recommendation of Lynden Pindling, prime minister of The Bahamas and leader of the Progressive Liberal Party , of which he was also a member...
  
  
• R.E. Cooper, Sr. (Baptist Clergy and Civil Rights Activist)
• Clifford Darling
  Clifford Darling
  Sir Clifford Darling GCVO was the fourth Governor-General of the Bahamas from 1992 until his retirement on January 2, 1995. Prior to this, he was a Senator from 1964–67, Deputy Speaker of the House of Assembly from 1967-69, Minister of: State in 1969, Labour and Welfare in 1971 and Labour and...
  
  
• Arthur Hailey
  Arthur Hailey
  Arthur Hailey was a British/Canadian novelist.- Biography :Born in Luton, Bedfordshire, England, Hailey served in the Royal Air Force from the start of World War II during 1939 until 1947, when he went to live in Canada. Hailey's last novel, Detective , is a mystery told from the perspective of a...
  
  
• Arthur Dion Hanna
  Arthur Dion Hanna
  Arthur Dion "A.D." Hanna is a Bahamian politician who served as Governor-General of the Bahamas from 2006 to 2010.Hanna has been active in Bahamian politics since the 1950s...
  
  
• Viktor Kožený
  Viktor Kožený
  Viktor Kožený is a Czech-born fugitive financier. He graduated from Harvard in 1989 with a bachelor's degree in economics. Viktor Kožený is officially an Irish citizen imprisoned in the Bahamas in 2005 but released in 2007. Efforts to bring him to justice stem from both the Czech Republic and the...
  
  
• Joe Lewis (British businessman)
• Sidney Poitier
  Sidney Poitier
  Sir Sidney Poitier, KBE is a Bahamian American actor, film director, author, and diplomat.In 1963, Poitier became the first black person to win an Academy Award for Best Actor for his role in Lilies of the Field...
  
  
• Orville Alton Turnquest

Bahamian musicians

• List of Bahamian musicians
• Sebastian Bach
  Sebastian Bach
  Sebastian Bach is a Canadian heavy metal singer who achieved mainstream success as frontman of Skid Row from 1987 to 1996. Since his departure from Skid Row, he has had many television roles, acted within Broadway plays, and leads a successful solo career.-Early life:Bach was born Sebastian...
  
  
• Baha Men
  Baha Men
  The Baha Men are Bahamian singers in a Bahamian band. They play a modernised style of Bahamian music called Junkanoo.-Early career as High Voltage :...
  
  
• Eric Gibson
  Eric Gibson
  "King" Eric Gibson is a Bahamian musician and entrepreneur. He is also the semiofficial Ambassador of Bahamian Goodwill.Gibson was born on the small island of Acklins to a musical family, although he didn't pursue music until his adulthood...
  
  
• Joseph Spence

Bahamian politicians

• Ivy Dumont
  Ivy Dumont
  Dame Ivy Leona Dumont, DCMG was the sixth Governor-General of the Bahamas. She was a Bahamian hero.She was the first woman in the Bahamas to hold this office, from January 1, 2002 until November 30, 2005. She previously served as Education Minister from 1995 to 2001.-External links:*...
  
  
• Earl Hall
• List of Governors-General of the Bahamas
• Stafford Sands
  Stafford Sands
  Sir Stafford Lofthouse Sands was a former finance minister of the Bahamas. He helped create the Bahamas' tourism industry....
  
  
• Robert Sweeting
  Robert Sweeting
  Robert Percival Sweeting OBE is a Bahamian politician, and was an MP in the Bahamas Parliament, representing the South Abaco Constituency, from 2002 until 2007...
  
  
• Brent Symonette
  Brent Symonette
  Brent Symonette is a prominent Bahamian businessman, a Member of Parliament for the St. Annes constituency, and the current Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister of the Bahamas. He is a member of the Free National Movement ....
  
  

Bahamian athletes

• Christine Amertil
  Christine Amertil
  Christine Amertil is a Bahamian athlete competing mainly in the 400 metres. She graduated from Southeastern Louisiana University.- Achievements :*2006 IAAF World Indoor Championships - bronze medal...
  
  
• Chris Brown
• Eldece Clarke-Lewis
  Eldece Clarke-Lewis
  Eldece Clarke-Lewis is a Bahamian sprints athlete. She was a part of the Bahamian team that won the silver medal in the 1996 Olympics 4 x 100 metres relay.-External reference:*...
  
  
• Aaron Cleare
  Aaron Cleare
  Aaron Cleare is a Bahamian athlete who specializes in the 400 metres. He was a member of the Bahamian 4 x 400 metres relay team that finished 6th in the 2004 Olympics....
  
  
• Dennis Darling
  Dennis Darling
  Dennis Darling is a Bahamian athlete who specializes in the 400 metres. He is currently track and field Assistant Coach at Texas Christian University....
  
  
• Pauline Davis-Thompson
• Dominic Demeritte
  Dominic Demeritte
  Dominic Demeritte is a sprints athlete who specializes in the 200 metres.He became indoor world champion in 2004, his result 20.66 a new Bahamian record...
  
  
• Laverne Eve
  Laverne Eve
  Laverne Eve is a female track and field athlete from the Bahamas, who competes in the javelin throw. Her personal best throw is 63.73 metres, achieved in April 2000 in Nashville. In her early career she also competed in shot put and discus throw...
  
  
• Debbie Ferguson
  Debbie Ferguson
  Debbie Ferguson-McKenzie is a Bahamian sprint athlete who specialises in the 100 and 200 metres. She had her first major successes with the Bahamian 4×100 metres relay team, winning gold at the Pan American Games and World Championships in Athletics in 1999, and taking another gold at the Olympic...
  
  
• Savatheda Fynes
• Craig Hepburn
  Craig Hepburn
  Craig Daniel Hepburn is a retired male long jumper from the Bahamas, best known for finishing 13th at the 1992 Olympic Games. His personal best is 8.41 metres, achieved in June 1993 in Nassau. This is the national record. -Achievements:...
  
  
• Troy Kemp
  Troy Kemp
  Troy Kemp is a former high jumper from Bahamas who won the gold medal at the 1995 World Championships in Athletics. Having jumped 2.38m in Nice 1995, Kemp is a co-holder of the Commonwealth record.-Achievements:-External...
  
  
• Troy McIntosh
  Troy McIntosh
  Troy McIntosh is a male sprinter from The Bahamas.-Achievements:-External links:...
  
  
• Nathaniel McKinney
  Nathaniel McKinney
  Nathaniel Benjamin McKinney is a Bahamian athlete competing mainly in the 4 x 400 m relay.At the 2004 Olympic Games McKinney's relay team finished sixth...
  
  
• Avard Moncur
  Avard Moncur
  Avard Moncur is a Bahamian athlete competing in the 400 metres. He was born in Nassau.Moncur's most successful year came in 2001 when he won the gold medal in the 400m and the 4x400m relay at the 2001 World Championships...
  
  
• Frank Rutherford
  Frank Rutherford
  Frank Garfield Rutherford, Jr. MBE is a retired triple jumper from the Bahamas. He competed in three Olympic Games, and won a bronze medal in 1992, becoming the first Bahamian Track and Field Olympic medalist...
  
  
• Leevan Sands
  Leevan Sands
  Leevan Sands is a Bahamian triple jumper. He was born in Nassau.His personal best jump is 17.59 metres, achieved in 2008 Olympic Games in Beijing...
  
  
• Chandra Sturrup
  Chandra Sturrup
  Chandra Sturrup is a Bahamian track and field sprint athlete. She is a 100 m specialist and the Bahamian national record holder for the women's 100 meter dash with a personal best of 10.84 seconds set in Lausanne, Switzerland on July 5, 2005...
  
  
• Andrae Williams
  Andrae Williams
  Andrae Williams is a Bahamian athlete.-2004:In the 2004 Olympic Games, Williams was a member of the Bahamian 4 x 400 metres relay team that finished 6th.-2005:...
  
  
• Tonique Williams-Darling
  Tonique Williams-Darling
  Tonique Williams-Darling is a Bahamian sprint athlete. She won the gold medal in the 400 meters at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens, Greece.-College:...
  
  

Bahamian American football players

• Devard Darling
  Devard Darling
  Devard Loran Darling is a Bahamian-American wide receiver of American football who is currently a member of the Houston Texans. He was drafted by the Baltimore Ravens in the third round of the 2004 NFL Draft. He played college football at Florida State University and Washington State...
  
  
• Alex Smith
  Alex Smith
  Alexander Douglas Smith is a professional American football player and starting quarterback for the San Francisco 49ers of the National Football League. Smith was drafted with the 1st-overall pick in the 1st round of the 2005 NFL Draft by San Francisco from the University of Utah...
  
   son of Ed Smith
• Ed Smith
  Alex Smith (tight end)
  Edwin Alexander "Alex" Smith , is an American football tight end for the Cleveland Browns of the National Football League. He was drafted by the Tampa Bay Buccaneers in the third round of the 2005 NFL Draft...
  
   First Bahamian to play in the NFL

Olympic competitors for the Bahamas

• Chris Brown
• Dominic Demeritte
  Dominic Demeritte
  Dominic Demeritte is a sprints athlete who specializes in the 200 metres.He became indoor world champion in 2004, his result 20.66 a new Bahamian record...
  
  
• Craig Hepburn
  Craig Hepburn
  Craig Daniel Hepburn is a retired male long jumper from the Bahamas, best known for finishing 13th at the 1992 Olympic Games. His personal best is 8.41 metres, achieved in June 1993 in Nassau. This is the national record. -Achievements:...
  
  
• Troy Kemp
  Troy Kemp
  Troy Kemp is a former high jumper from Bahamas who won the gold medal at the 1995 World Championships in Athletics. Having jumped 2.38m in Nice 1995, Kemp is a co-holder of the Commonwealth record.-Achievements:-External...
  
  
• Troy McIntosh
  Troy McIntosh
  Troy McIntosh is a male sprinter from The Bahamas.-Achievements:-External links:...
  
  
• Avard Moncur
  Avard Moncur
  Avard Moncur is a Bahamian athlete competing in the 400 metres. He was born in Nassau.Moncur's most successful year came in 2001 when he won the gold medal in the 400m and the 4x400m relay at the 2001 World Championships...
  
  
• Frank Rutherford
  Frank Rutherford
  Frank Garfield Rutherford, Jr. MBE is a retired triple jumper from the Bahamas. He competed in three Olympic Games, and won a bronze medal in 1992, becoming the first Bahamian Track and Field Olympic medalist...
  
  

See also

• Bibliography of the Bahamas
  Bibliography of The Bahamas
  This bibliography of The Bahamas is a list of English-language nonfiction books which have been described by reliable sources as in some way directly relating to the subject of The Bahamas, its history, geography, people, culture, etc....
  
  
• Index of Bahamas-related articles
• Commonwealth realm
  Commonwealth Realm
  A Commonwealth realm is a sovereign state within the Commonwealth of Nations that has Elizabeth II as its monarch and head of state. The sixteen current realms have a combined land area of 18.8 million km² , and a population of 134 million, of which all, except about two million, live in the six...
  
  
• List of international rankings
• Member state of the Commonwealth of Nations
• Member state of the United Nations
• Monarchy of the Bahamas
  Monarchy of the Bahamas
  The monarchy of the Bahamas is a system of government in which a hereditary monarch is the sovereign and head of state of the Commonwealth of The Bahamas. The current monarch is Queen Elizabeth II, who has reigned since the country became independent on 10 July 1973. The Bahamas share the Sovereign...
  
  
• Outline of geography
  Outline of geography
  The following outline is provided as an overview of and topical guide to geography:Geography – science that studies the lands, features, inhabitants, and phenomena of Earth.- Geography is :...
  
  
• Outline of North America

External links

• The Official Tourism Website of The Islands Of The Bahamas
• Official website for Bahamas government
• Bahamas Financial Services Board
• The Association of International Banks & Trust Companies in The Bahamas
• The Bahamas Constitution