Tourism in the beautiful Bahamas
Bahamas or officially the Commonwealth of the Bahamas (English: The Bahamas) is an English-speaking country consisting of 29 islands, 661 cays, and 2387 islets (rocks). Islands are located in the Atlantic Ocean north of Cuba and Hispaniola (Dominican Republic and Haiti), northwest of the Turks and Caicos Islands and the south-east of the United States of America (closer to the state of Florida). A total area of 13939 km2 (5382 square miles and thus slightly larger than the states of Connecticut and Rhode Island combined) and an estimated population of 330,000 and its capital, Nassau. Geographically located Bahamas in the same chain of islands of Cuba, Hispaniola and the Turks and Caicos Islands, usually refer rename the Bahamas to the Commonwealth and not the geographic chain.
Bahamas residents peoples are التاينو the Alerawakjon. The islands were first foothold for Columbus in the New World in 1492. Although the Spaniards never Istamra colony, but they were transferred indigenous inhabitants of the island to the island of Hispaniola as slaves. Abandoned most of the islands between (1513-1650) when it was settled by British colonists from Bermuda island of Eleuthera.
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A luxury hotel in the Bahamas
