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| ethnic_groups_year = | demonym = Bahamian | capital = Nassau | latd=25 |latm=4 |latNS=N |longd=77 |longm=20 |longEW=W | largest_city = capital | government_type = | leader_title1 = Monarch | leader_name1 = Elizabeth II | leader_title2 = | leader_name2 = Marguerite Pindling | leader_title3 = Prime Minister | leader_name3 = Perry Christie | legislature = Parliament | upper_house = Senate | lower_house = House of Assembly | area_rank = 160th | area_magnitude = 1 E10 | area_km2 = 13878 | area_sq_mi = 5358 | percent_water = 28% | population_estimate = 321,834〔(Bahamas, The ). CIA World Factbook.〕 | population_estimate_year = 2014 | population_estimate_rank = 177th | population_census = 254,685 | population_census_year = 1990 | population_density_km2 = 23.27 | population_density_sq_mi = 60 | population_density_rank = 181st | GDP_PPP_year = 2012 | GDP_PPP = $11.055 billion〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=The Bahamas )〕 | GDP_PPP_rank = | GDP_PPP_per_capita = $31,382〔 | GDP_PPP_per_capita_rank = | GDP_nominal_year = 2012 | GDP_nominal = $8.043 billion〔 | GDP_nominal_per_capita = $22,832〔 | Gini_year = 2001 | Gini_change = | Gini = 57 | Gini_ref = 〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.centralbankbahamas.com/download/BLCS%202001%20poverty.pdf#page=4 )〕 | Gini_rank = | HDI_year = 2013 | HDI_change = steady | HDI = 0.789 | HDI_ref = | HDI_rank = 51st | sovereignty_type = Independence | established_event1 = from the United Kingdom | established_date1 = 10 July 1973 | currency = | country_code = BAH | time_zone = EST | utc_offset = −5 | time_zone_DST = EDT | utc_offset_DST = −4 | drives_on = left | iso3166code = BS | cctld = .bs | calling_code = +1 242 }} The Bahamas , officially the Commonwealth of the Bahamas, is an island country of the Lucayan Archipelago consisting of more than 700 islands, cays, and islets in the Atlantic Ocean; north of Cuba and Hispaniola (Haiti and the Dominican Republic); northwest of the Turks and Caicos Islands; southeast of the US state of Florida and east of the Florida Keys. Its capital is Nassau on the island of New Providence. The designation of "Bahamas" can refer to either the country or the larger island chain that it shares with the Turks and Caicos Islands. As stated in the mandate/manifesto of the Royal Bahamas Defence Force, the Bahamas territory encompasses of ocean space. Originally inhabited by the Lucayan, a branch of the Arawakan-speaking Taino people, the Bahamas were the site of Columbus' first landfall in the New World in 1492. 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. Blacks constituted the majority of the population from this period. The Bahamas became a haven for freed African slaves: the Royal Navy resettled Africans here liberated from illegal slave ships; American slaves and Seminoles escaped here from Florida; and the government freed American slaves carried on United States domestic ships that had reached the Bahamas due to weather. Slavery in the Bahamas was abolished in 1834. Today the descendants of slaves and free Africans make up nearly 90% of the population; issues related to the slavery years are part of society. The Bahamas became an independent Commonwealth realm in 1973, retaining Queen Elizabeth II as its monarch. 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). Its economy is based on tourism and finance.〔(Country Comparison :: GDP – per capita (PPP) ). CIA World Factbook.〕 ==Etymology== The name ''Bahamas'' is derived from either the Taino ba ha ma ("big upper middle land"), which was a pronoun for the region used by the indigenous Amerindians,〔Bahama Saga: The epic story of the Bahama Islands – Page 47, Peter Barratt – 2004〕 while other theories suggest it derives from the Spanish ''baja mar'' ("shallow water or sea" or "low tide") reflecting the shallow waters of the area. Alternatively it may originate from ''Guanahani'', a local name of unclear meaning. In English, the Bahamas is one of only two countries whose self-standing short name begins with the word "the", along with the Gambia.〔 Habitually, the definite article is sometimes still used when addressing many other countries, including Ukraine, Netherlands, Philippines, Congo, Sudan, Yemen, Comoros, Central African Republic, Seychelles, Maldives, Solomon Islands, Dominican Republic, Czech Republic, Marshall Islands, and Lebanon, with varying degrees of accuracy.〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「The Bahamas」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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