- State of the Atlantic Ocean the North situated in the North of the Big Antilles. Of the official name Commonwealth of the Bahama Islands, it is consisted that of a vast archipelago about 700 islands, which extend over 1 200 km of the southeast of the Florida until the oriental extremity of Cuba. Island Bimini, most on the West, is situated in 97 km in the wide of Miami. Only 40 p. 100 of the islands are lived. New Providence, where lives more half of the population bahamienne, black in 85 p. 100, is the main island, where sits the capital, Nassau. Andros, Eleuthera, Grand Bahama, Great Abaco, Great Inagua, Harbour, Length, Mayaguana and San Salvador are the other important islands. The Bahama Islands counted about 244 000 inhabitants in 1993 for a surface of 13 935 km2. Besides Nassau, only the other big city is Freeport, on the island of Grand Bahama.
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