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Bahamas
Location marker · geographic overview
25.03° N / 77.4° WTHE WORLD, ONE COUNTRY AT A TIME
- Capital
- Nassau
- Population
- 401,283 2024
- Area
- 13,943 km² (year unavailable)
- Languages source-listed
- English
- Currency
- Bahamian dollar (BSD), United States dollar (USD)
- Geography
- Island country
Population: World Bank 2024. Other facts: REST Countries snapshot. Sources & limitations.
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FROM THE TRAVEL GUIDE · Bahamas
The Bahamas is an archipelago nation in the Atlantic Ocean off the east coast of Florida. The country is made up of about 3,000 islands and cays, of which approximately 30 are populated. The capital city of Nassau, is on the island of New Providence and is home to about half of the country's population.
Landscape & landmarks
Lucayan National Park and Port Lucaya in Freeport […] Dolphin Cay on Paradise Island […] The Thunderball Grotto in Exuma […] Flamingos, iguanas and other tropical wildlife. […] Fort Fincastle, the Old Town and the Pirate museum in NassauRead the see section ↗
Food & everyday culture
As you'd expect in an island nation, seafood is very popular. The national dish is conch (pronounced "conk" with a hard K), a type of mollusk, served deep-fried ("cracked") or raw with a twist of lemon, and as elsewhere in the Caribbean, the classic accompaniment is peas and rice.Read the eat section ↗
Excerpts from Wikivoyage contributors, revision 2026-09-14. CC BY-SA 4.0. Selected excerpts; wiki formatting removed; omissions marked […]. Guide wording and any figures belong to this dated source; they do not replace the atlas statistics above. Food descriptions are not official national-dish designations.
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- National flower
- Not yet verified
- Official national dish
- Not yet verified
- Representative food
- Not yet verified
- Subregion
- Caribbean
- Calling code
- +1242
- Internet domain
- .bs
- Land border codes
- None listed
Quick facts
- Traffic keeps to the left side of the road. Source ↗
- The country-code web domain is .bs. Source ↗
- The source lists monday as the start of the week. Source ↗
Population: World Bank 2024. Other facts: REST Countries snapshot. Source-matched September 26, 2026; not live data. Sources & limitations.