Bahamas

The Commonwealth of the Bahamas ( English : The Bahamas, officially Commonwealth of The Bahamas) is an independent , English-speaking country in theCaribbean . The name is derived from the Spanish Baja Mar (= shallow sea).

Content

 * 1 Geography
 * 2 Politics
 * 3 Administrative divisions
 * 4 Birth
 * 5 External links

Geography
The Bahamas consists of an archipelago of 700 islands and 2000 cays (or keys = sand / coral plates), located in the Atlantic Ocean, east of the US state Florida , north ofCuba and Haiti , and west of the British Turks and Caicos Islands . The country has about 300,000 inhabitants in an area of 13,878 square kilometers (about the size of the Flemish Region ).

Of all the islands, there are only 30 to 40 inhabited. The largest island is Andros about 180 kilometers southeast of Florida . The Bimini Islands lie northwest of it. To the north is Grand Bahama with the second largest city: Freeport . Abaco is to the east of it. The second largest island of Great Inagua is in the south. Other islands are further Eleuthera , Cat , San Salvador , Acklins , Crooked Island and Mayaguana .

The underwater world of the Bahamas is known for its abundance of large predatory fish, including many species of sharks . Presumably makes the variation of sandy soils, coral reefs , mangrove forests and the warm Gulf Stream from the Atlantic to the seas around the islands an ideal habitat for these fish. There is also no question of large-scale industrial pollution of seawater.

[Politics edit ]
The Bahamas became independent from the United Kingdom on July 10 1973, but are still part of the Commonwealth of Nations .
 * Head of state : Queen Elizabeth II
 * Governor General : Arthur Foulkes
 * Prime Minister : Perry Christie

Administrative divisions [ edit ]
The Bahamas are divided into 31 districts . This classification was introduced in 1996, then in 1999, 8 districts were added. The main island of the Bahamas, New Providence, knows no districts and is directly under the central government.

Born [ edit ]

 * Ian Hamilton Finlay (1925-2006), Scottish artist, poet and author
 * Etta Cameron (1939-2010), singer
 * Troy Kemp (1966), high jumper
 * Mark Knowles (1971), tennis
 * Chandra Sturrup (1971), sprint star
 * Kimbo Slice (1974) MMA -vechter
 * Tonique Williams-Darling (1976), athlete
 * Debbie Ferguson-McKenzie (1976), athlete
 * Avard Moncur (1978), athlete
 * Chris Brown (1978), athlete
 * Dominic Demeritte (1978), sprinter
 * Andrae Williams (1983), athlete
 * Mathieu Michael (1984), athlete
 * Andretti Bain (1985), athlete
 * Arianna Vanderpool-Wallace (1990), swimmer