The Bahamas

The Bahamas (/bəˈhɑːməz/(About this soundlisten)), referred to authoritatively as the Commonwealth of The Bahamas,[10] is a nation inside the Lucayan Archipelago. The archipelagic state comprises of in excess of 700 islands, cays, and islets in the Atlantic Ocean, and is found north of Cuba and Hispaniola (Haiti and the Dominican Republic), northwest of the Turks and Caicos Islands, southeast of the U.S. territory of Florida, and east of the Florida Keys. The capital is Nassau on the island of New Providence. The assignment of "the Bahamas" can allude either to the nation or to the bigger island chain that it imparts to the Turks and Caicos Islands. The Royal Bahamas Defense Force depicts the Bahamas domain as including 470,000 km2 (180,000 sq mi) of sea space.

The Bahamas is the site of Columbus' first landfall in the New World in 1492. Around then, the islands were possessed by the Lucayans, a part of the Arawakan-speaking Taíno individuals. In spite of the fact that the Spanish never colonized the Bahamas, they delivered the local Lucayans to bondage in Hispaniola. The islands were for the most part left from 1513 until 1648, when English homesteaders from Bermuda settled on the island of Eleuthera.

The Bahamas turned into a British crown province in 1718, when the British braced down on theft. After the American Revolutionary War, the Crown resettled a huge number of American Loyalists in the Bahamas; they carried their slaves with them and built up estates ashore gives. Africans established most of the populace from this period. The slave exchange was nullified by the British in 1807; bondage in the Bahamas was abrogated in 1834. Hence, the Bahamas turned into a safe house for liberated African slaves; the Royal Navy resettled Africans there freed from unlawful slave ships, North American slaves and Seminoles got away here from Florida, and the administration liberated slaves carried on US local ships that had achieved the Bahamas because of climate. Today, Afro-Bahamians make up almost 90% of the populace.

The Bahamas turned into a free Commonwealth domain in 1973 with Elizabeth II as its ruler. Regarding total national output per capita, the Bahamas is one of the most extravagant nations in the Americas (following the United States and Canada), with an economy dependent on the travel industry and finance.[11]