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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Bahamas


00:02:26 1 Etymology
00:03:29 2 History
00:03:38 2.1 Pre-colonial era
00:04:10 2.2 Arrival of the Spanish
00:05:42 2.3 Arrival of the English
00:07:04 2.4 18th century
00:09:17 2.5 19th century
00:12:45 2.6 Early 20th century
00:14:31 2.7 Post-Second World War
00:16:19 2.8 Post-independence
00:18:01 3 Geography
00:19:23 3.1 Climate
00:21:06 4 Geology
00:24:32 5 Government and politics
00:26:10 5.1 Political culture
00:26:41 5.2 Foreign relations
00:27:07 5.3 Armed forces
00:28:22 5.4 Administrative divisions
00:29:32 5.5 National flag
00:30:04 5.6 Coat of arms
00:30:55 5.7 National flower
00:31:51 6 Economy
00:32:18 6.1 Tourism
00:32:49 6.2 Financial services
00:34:21 6.3 Agriculture and manufacturing
00:34:54 6.4 Logistics
00:35:17 7 Demographics
00:36:31 7.1 Racial and ethnic groups
00:38:36 7.2 Religion
00:39:20 7.3 Languages
00:40:04 8 Culture
00:42:31 8.1 Sport
00:46:57 9 Education
00:47:32 10 Transport
00:48:08 11 See also



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The Bahamas ( (listen)), known officially as the Commonwealth of The Bahamas, is a country within the Lucayan Archipelago, in the West Indies. The archipelagic state consists of more than 700 islands, cays, and islets in the Atlantic Ocean, and is located north of Cuba and Hispaniola Island (Haiti and the Dominican Republic), northwest of the Turks and Caicos Islands, southeast of the U.S. state of Florida, and east of the Florida Keys. The capital is Nassau on the island of New Providence. The Royal Bahamas Defence Force describes The Bahamas' territory as encompassing 470,000 km2 (180,000 sq mi) of ocean space.
The Bahamas were inhabited by the Lucayans, a branch of the Arawakan-speaking Taíno people, for many centuries. Columbus was the first European to see the islands, making his first landfall in the 'New World' in 1492. Later, the Spanish shipped the native Lucayans to slavery on Hispaniola, after which The Bahama islands were mostly deserted from 1513 until 1648, when English colonists from Bermuda settled on the island of Eleuthera.
The Bahamas became a British crown colony in 1718, when the British clamped down on piracy. After the American Revolutionary War, the Crown resettled thousands of American Loyalists to the Bahamas; they took their slaves with them and established plantations on land grants. African slaves and their descendants constituted the majority of the population from this period on. The slave trade was abolished by the British in 1807; slavery in the Bahamas was abolished in 1834. Subsequently, the Bahamas became a haven for freed African slaves. Africans liberated from illegal slave ships were resettled on the islands by the Royal Navy, while some North American slaves and Seminoles escaped to the Bahamas from Florida. Bahamians were even known to recognize the freedom of slaves carried by the ships of other nations which reached the Bahamas. Today Afro-Bahamians make up 90% of the population of 332,634.The Bahamas became an independent Commonwealth realm in 1973 with Elizabeth II as its queen. In terms of gross domestic product per capita, the Bahamas is one of the richest countries in the Americas (following the United States and Canada), with an economy based on tourism and offshore finance.