An archipelago of about 700 islands, of which only around 30 are inhabited.
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Bahamas
Commonwealth of the Bahamas
North America
ยท Caribbean
0Population
13.94Kkmยฒ of land
$34.86KGDP / person
NassauCapital
- ISO codes
- BS ยท BHS
- Density
- 28 /kmยฒ
- Languages
- English
- Currencies
- Bahamian dollar (BSD), United States dollar (USD)
- Dial code
- +1242
- Internet domain
- .bs
- Time zones
- 1
- Coastline
- Has a coast
- Map centre
- 26.4020ยฐ N, 77.1470ยฐ W
- Demonym
- Bahamian
- UN region
- Americas ยท Caribbean
- Economy
- Developing region
- Income group
- High income: nonOECD
- Total GDP
- $13.58B
- Sovereignty
- Independent ยท UN member
- Borders
- None
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By the numbers
How Bahamas stacks up against all 242 mapped countries.
Population
178th
of 242 ยท 0.01% of world population
Land area
160th
of 242 ยท 0.01% of world land
GDP per person
47th
richest of 242 by output per person
Population density
179th
most crowded of 242
Ten facts about Bahamas
The first is hand-written; the rest are worked out from this country's own figures.
Population is about 389,482 people, the 178th largest of the 242 countries mapped here - roughly one in 19,711 of everyone alive.
Covers 13,943 kmยฒ, making it the 160th largest country here - about 5.4 times the size of Luxembourg.
Population density is about 28 people per kmยฒ.
The capital is Nassau, at 25.08ยฐ N, 77.35ยฐ W, with a metropolitan population of about 227,940.
Has no land neighbours - it is an island nation, surrounded entirely by water.
Has its own coastline and direct access to the open sea.
Keeps a single time zone, America/Nassau.
The currency is the Bahamian dollar (BSD, symbol $).
The official language is English.
Local time
Live, from PHP's IANA database.
America/Nassau
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UTCโ04:00
Cities
The largest places we hold coordinates for. Click a row to fly the map there.
1
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Nassau
25.0834ยฐ N, 77.3500ยฐ W
227.94K
2
Freeport
26.5333ยฐ N, 78.7000ยฐ W
25.38K