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The archipelagic country consists of more than 3, islands , cays , and islets in the Atlantic Ocean, and is located north of Cuba and northwest of the island of Hispaniola split between the Dominican Republic and Haiti and the Turks and Caicos Islands , southeast of the U.
The capital is Nassau on the island of New Providence. The Royal Bahamas Defence Force describes The Bahamas' territory as encompassing , km 2 , sq mi of ocean space. Later, the Spanish shipped the native Lucayans to Hispaniola and enslaved them there, after which the Bahama islands were mostly deserted from until , nearly all native Bahamians having been forcibly removed for enslavement or having died of diseases that Europeans brought with them from Europe. In , [ 15 ] English colonists from Bermuda , known as the Eleutheran Adventurers , settled on the island of Eleuthera.
The Bahamas became a British crown colony in , when the British clamped down on piracy. After the American Revolutionary War , the Crown resettled thousands of American Loyalists to The Bahamas; they took enslaved people with them and established plantations on land grants. Enslaved Africans and their descendants constituted the majority of the population from this period on. The slave trade was abolished by the British in Although slavery in The Bahamas was not abolished until , The Bahamas became a haven of manumission for African slaves, from outside the British West Indies, in Bahamians were even known to recognise the freedom of enslaved people carried by the ships of other nations which reached The Bahamas.
It shares its monarch with the other Commonwealth realms. The Bahamas has the third-largest gross domestic product per capita in the Americas , after the United States and Canada. Its economy is based on tourism and offshore finance. Wolfgang Ahrens of York University argues that this is a folk etymology. First attested on the c. The Bahamas is one of only two countries whose official names start with the article "the.