Key facts
Official Name: Commonwealth of The Bahamas
Capital City: Nassau
Type of Government: Constitutional parliamentary
democracy
Official Language: English; Creole also spoken
Area: 13,940 sq. km/5,382 sq. mi
Population: 410,170
Religions: Baptist (30%), Pentacostal (23%), Anglican (10%), Roman
Catholic
Currency: Bahamian dollar (BSD)
Number of Time Zones: 1
Greenwich Mean Time (GMT) minus 5 hours, or Eastern Standard Time
(EST); Daylight Saving Time (DST) is observed from the second
Sunday in March through the first Sunday in November.
Weights and Measures: Metric system
Country Domain: .bs
Country Tel Code: 242
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