Bahamas | Wikipedia audio article
Channel: Subhajit Sahu
Date: 2018-12-06

This is an audio version of the Wikipedia Article:
Bahamas


00:02:25 1 Etymology
00:03:13 2 History
00:05:29 2.1 18th–19th centuries
00:11:05 2.2 20th century
00:12:38 2.3 Post-Second World War
00:14:53 3 Geography
00:16:20 3.1 Castaway Cay
00:16:48 3.2 Climate
00:18:00 4 Geology
00:21:24 5 Government and politics
00:23:07 5.1 Political culture
00:23:38 5.2 Foreign relations
00:24:03 5.3 Armed forces
00:25:16 5.4 Administrative divisions
00:26:29 5.5 National flag
00:27:01 5.6 Coat of arms
00:27:52 5.7 National flower
00:28:47 6 Economy
00:29:09 6.1 Tourism
00:29:40 6.2 Financial services
00:31:11 6.3 Agriculture
00:31:41 7 Demographics
00:32:52 7.1 Racial and ethnic groups
00:34:55 7.2 Languages
00:35:46 7.3 Religion
00:36:38 8 Culture
00:38:54 8.1 Sport
00:43:10 9 Education
00:43:27 10 See also



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The Bahamas ( (listen)), known officially as the Commonwealth of The Bahamas, is a country within the Lucayan Archipelago.  The archipelagic state consists of more than 700 islands, cays, and islets in the Atlantic Ocean, and is located north of Cuba and Hispaniola (Haiti and the Dominican Republic), northwest of the Turks and Caicos Islands, southeast of the United States state of Florida, and east of the Florida Keys. The capital is Nassau on the island of New Providence. The designation of "the Bahamas" can refer either to the country or to the larger island chain that it shares with the Turks and Caicos Islands. The Royal Bahamas Defence Force describes the Bahamas territory as encompassing 470,000 km2 (180,000 sq mi) of ocean space.
The Bahamas is the site of Columbus's first landfall in the New World in 1492. At that time, the islands were inhabited by the Lucayan, a branch of the Arawakan-speaking Taino people. Although the Spanish never colonised The Bahamas, they shipped the native Lucayans to slavery in Hispaniola. The islands were mostly deserted from 1513 until 1648, when English colonists from Bermuda settled on the island of Eleuthera.
The Bahamas became a British crown colony in 1718, when the British clamped down on piracy. After the American War of Independence, the Crown resettled thousands of American Loyalists in the Bahamas; they brought their slaves with them and established plantations on land grants. Africans constituted the majority of the population from this period. The slave trade was abolished by the British in 1807; slavery in the Bahamas was abolished in 1834. Subsequently, the Bahamas became a haven for freed African slaves; the Royal Navy resettled Africans there liberated from illegal slave ships, North American slaves and Seminoles escaped here from Florida, and the government freed slaves carried on US domestic ships that had reached the Bahamas due to weather. Today, Afro-Bahamians make up nearly 90% of the population.
The Bahamas became an independent Commonwealth realm in 1973, retaining the British monarch, then and currently Queen Elizabeth II, as its head of state. In terms of gross domestic product per capita, The Bahamas is one of the richest countries in the Americas (following the United States and Canada), with an economy based on tourism and finance.