What the records say
- When
- 1973
- Kind
- Territorial change
- Where
- The Bahamas
- Coordinates
- 26.40° N, 77.15° W
- Process
- unknown
- Type
- Unknown process (often independences)
- Pop
- 168812
- Area km2
- 13864
- Gaining
- Bahamas
- Losing
- United Kingdom
Placed at the area, not an exact site.
The Bahamas
Country of islands in the Caribbean
The Bahamas, officially the Commonwealth of The Bahamas, is an archipelagic country in the Caribbean located within the Lucayan Archipelago in the Atlantic Ocean. The country comprises 700 islands, and more than 2,500 cays in the Atlantic Ocean, located north of Cuba and north-west of the island of Hispaniola and the Turks and Caicos Islands, southeast of the US state of Florida and east of the Florida Keys.
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The source
- COW Territorial Change v6Correlates of War ProjectCorrelates of War: free use with citation
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