Place:Bahamas

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Place Information
Name
Bahamas
Alternate names
Bahama Islands     (Canby, Historic Places (1984) I, 72-73; Van Marle, Pittura Italiana (1932); Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1988) p 106-107)
Commonwealth of The Bahamas     (Wikipedia)
The Commonwealth of the Bahamas     (Encyclopædia Britannica (1988) I, 798-799)
Type
Country
Coordinates
24°N 76°W
Contained Places

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District
Acklins Island
Acklins and Crooked Islands
Berry Islands
Bimini Islands
Cat Island
Crooked Island
Exuma
Inagua
Long Island
Mayaguana
Rum Cay
San Salvador Island
Island
Abaco Islands
Andros Island
Eleuthera
Grand Bahama
Great Abaco
Great Inagua
New Providence
Paradise Island
Ragged Island
Island group
Ragged Island Range
Islands
Out Islands
Plana Cays
Uninhabited island
Egg Island
Samana Cay
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source: Family History Library Catalog
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The Bahamas, officially the Commonwealth of The Bahamas, is an independent, sovereign, English-speaking country consisting of two thousand cays and seven hundred islands that form an archipelago. It is located in the Atlantic Ocean southeast of the United States; north of Cuba, Hispaniola (Dominican Republic & Haiti) and the Caribbean Sea; and northwest of the Turks and Caicos Islands.

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