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Bahamas (nation) |
Coordinates: |
| Lat: 24 00 00 N degrees minutes |
Lat: 24.0000 decimal degrees |
| Long: 076 00 00 W degrees minutes |
Long: -76.0000 decimal degrees |
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Note: Comprises most islands in Bahamas chain; originally inhabited by Lucayans (Arawaks), driven from South America by the Caribs; Columbus landed in 1492; visited by slave raiders and pirates; English colonized in 17th century, and brought Africans here as slaves; official language is English. |
Names: |
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| Bahamas (preferred,C,V,English-P,U,N)
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| Bahamas (Tagalog)
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| Bahamas (Malagasy)
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| Bahamas (Vietnamese)
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| Bahamas (Ilocano)
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| Bahamas (Indonesian)
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| Bahamas (Latvian)
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| Bahamas (Danish)
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| Bahamas (Norwegian (Nynorsk))
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| Bahamas (Swedish)
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| Bahamas (Portuguese)
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| Bahamas (Romanian)
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| Bahamas (Spanish-P,U,N)
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| Bahamas (Aragonese)
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| Bahamas (Hausa)
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| Bahamas (German-P,U,N)
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| Bahamas (Low German)
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| Bahamas (Breton)
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| Bahamas (Afrikaans)
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| Bahamas (French-P,U,N)
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| Bahamas (Galician)
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| Bahamas (Faroese)
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| Bahamas (Italian)
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| Bahamas (Piemontese)
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| Bahamas (Greenlandic)
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| Bahamas (Occitan)
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| Bahamas (Norwegian (Bokmål))
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| Bahamas (Romansh)
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| Bahamas (Malay (macrolanguage))
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| Bahamas (Norwegian)
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| Bahamas (Pampanga)
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| Bahamas (Northern Sami)
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| Bahamas (Arpitan)
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| Bahamas (Interlingua (International Auxiliary Language Association))
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| Bahamas, The (C,V,English,U,N)
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| The Bahamas (C,V,English,U)
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| Commonwealth of the Bahamas (C,V,O,English,U,N)
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| The Commonwealth of the Bahamas (C,V,English,U,N)
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| Commonwealth des Bahamas (C,V,French,U)
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| Commonwealth de las Bahamas (C,V,Spanish,U)
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| Bahama Islands (C,V,English,U,N)
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| Bahamoj (C,V,Esperanto-P,U,N)
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| Bahamov (C,V,Slovene-P,U,N)
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| Багамские Острова (C,V,Russian-P,U)
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| Содружество Багамских Островов (C,V,Russian,U)
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| 巴哈马 (C,V,Chinese-P,U)
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| 巴哈马国 (C,V,Chinese,U)
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| جزر ا بٍهاما (C,V,Arabic-P,U)
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| كميوثً جزر ا بٍهاما (C,V,Arabic,U)
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| BHS (C,O,ISO3L)
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| BS (C,O,ISO2L)
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| ISO044 (C,O,ISO3N)
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| BF (C,O,FIPS)
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| Bahamian (C,O,English,U,A)
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| Bagama Adalary (C,U,Turkmen)
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| Bahaamas (C,U,Somali)
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| Bahaamas (Pennsylvania German)
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| Bahama (C,U,Indonesian)
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| Bahama (Finnish)
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| Bahama (Akan)
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| Bahama (Kurdish)
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| Bahama (Estonian)
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| Bahama (Turkish)
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| Bahama (Kikuyu)
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| Bahama (Shona)
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| Bahama (Swahili (generic))
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| Bahama (Ido)
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| Ba-ha-ma (C,U,Vietnamese)
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| Bahamaas (C,U,Fulah)
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| Ba-ha-ma (Bahamas) (C,U,Vietnamese)
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| Bahamaeyjar (C,U,Icelandic)
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| Bahamak (C,U,Basque)
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| Bahamák (C,U,Magyar (Hungarian))
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| Bahamalar (C,U,Azerbaijani)
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| Bahamalar (Turkish)
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| Bahama's (C,U,Dutch)
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| Bahama’s (C,U,Dutch)
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| Baħamas (C,U,Maltese)
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| Bahamasɛ (C,U,Lingala)
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| Bahâmasa (C,U,Sangho)
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| Bahama saared (C,U,Estonian)
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| Bahamase (C,U,Luba-Katanga)
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| Bahamasi (C,U,Rundi)
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| Bahamasi (Ganda (Ugandan language))
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| Bahamasi (Bambara)
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| Bahamas nutome (C,U,Ewe)
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| Bahama-szigetek (C,U,Magyar (Hungarian))
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| Bahamat (C,U,Nauruan)
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| Bahamen (C,U,Luxembourgish)
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| Bahames (C,U,Catalan)
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| Bahamet (C,U,Albanian)
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| Bahami (C,U,Croatian)
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| Bahami (Bosnian)
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| Bahami (Slovene)
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| Bahamos (C,U,Lithuanian)
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| Bahamuäns (C,U,Volapük)
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| Bahamu salas (C,U,Latvian)
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| Bahamų salos (C,U,Lithuanian)
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| Bahamy (C,U,Polish)
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| Bahamy (Slovak)
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| Bahamy (Czech)
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| Bhahamas (C,U,North Ndebele)
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| Colony of the Bahamas (C,U)
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| Commonwealth of The Bahamas (C,U)
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| i-Bahamas (C,U,Zulu)
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| Insulae Bahamenses (C,U,Latin)
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| Na Bahámaí (C,U,Irish Gaelic)
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| Orílẹ́ède Bàhámásì (C,U,Yoruba)
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| Pahama (C,U,Tonga (Tonga Islands))
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| Y Bahamas (C,U,Welsh)
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| Ynysow Bahama (C,U,Cornish)
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| ባሃማስ (C,U,Tigrinya)
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| ባሃማስ (Amharic)
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| बहामा (C,U,Hindi)
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| Բահամներ (C,U,Armenian)
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| បាហាម៉ា (C,U,Khmer)
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| באהאמה, איי (C,U,Hebrew )
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| Багамские острова (C,U,Russian)
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| باھاما (C,U,Uyghur)
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| बहामास (C,U,Sanskrit)
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| बहामास (Kashmiri)
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| बहामास (Nepali)
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| ბაჰამის კუნძულები (C,U,Georgian)
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| பஹாமாஸ் (C,U,Tamil)
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| ບາຮາມາສ (C,U,Lao)
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| Бахамски острови (C,U,Bulgarian)
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| Бахаме (C,U,Serbian)
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| Багамські Острови (C,U,Ukrainian)
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| بهاماس (C,U,Pashto)
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| Бахами (C,U,Serbian)
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| Бахами (Macedonian)
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| Бахами (Bulgarian)
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| บาฮามาส (C,U,Thai)
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| バハマ (C,U,Japanese)
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| Μπαχάμες (C,U,Greek)
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| البهاما (C,U,Arabic)
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| איי בהאמה (C,U,Hebrew )
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| বাহামা (C,U,Bengali)
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| Багами (C,U,Ukrainian)
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| 바하마 (C,U,Korean)
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| បាហាមាស (C,U,Khmer)
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| ประเทศบาฮามาส (C,U,Thai)
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| باهاما (C,U,Persian-Farsi)
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| Бахамски Острови (C,U,Macedonian)
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| ബഹാമാസ് (C,U,Malayalam)
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| איי הבהמה (C,U,Hebrew )
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| Багамскія астравы (C,U,Belarusian)
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| বাহামা দ্বীপপুঞ্জ (C,U,Bengali)
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| バハマ国 (C,U,Japanese)
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| बहामाज (C,U,Marathi)
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| Бахамски О-ви (C,U,Bulgarian)
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| Багамы (C,U,Russian)
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| الباهاما (C,U,Arabic)
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| بہاماس (C,U,Urdu)
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| બહામાસ (C,U,Gujarati)
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| बहामाज़ (C,U,Hindi)
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| ବାହାମାସ୍ (C,U,Odia)
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| བྷཱ་མས྄། (C,U,Tibetan)
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| ဘဟားမား (C,U,Burmese)
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| ಬಹಾಮಾಸ್ (C,U,Kannada)
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| බහමාස් (C,U,Sinhala)
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| బహామాస్ (C,U,Telugu)
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| بەھاما (C,U,Kurdish)
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Place Types: |
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| nation (preferred, C) |
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independent from Britain on July 10, 1973 |
| primary political unit (C) |
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| independent sovereign nation (C) |
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| former territory/colony/dependent state (C) |
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| colony (H) |
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British, 1717-1973 |
| independent political entity (C) |
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Related geographic places: |
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| capital is .... |
Nassau .......... (inhabited place) |
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(World, North and Central America, Bahamas, New Providence) [7006630] |
| member of .... |
Commonwealth of Nations .......... (association) |
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(World) [7005615] |
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joined association in 1973 |
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Sources and Contributors: |
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| Commonwealth of The Bahamas.......... |
[VP] |
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GeoNames online [n.d.] 3572887 |
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