The Bahamas islands

A cover from the Bahamas Islands 🇧🇸 

The Bahamas known officially as the Commonwealth of the Bahamas, is a country within the Lucayan Archipelago in the West Indies. The archipelagic state consists of more than 700 islands, cays, and islets in the Atlantic Ocean, and is located north of Cuba and HispaniolaIsland (Haiti and the Dominican Republic). The capital is Nassau on the island of New Providence.

The Bahamas became a British crown colony in 1718, when the British clamped down on piracy. After the American Revolutionary War, the Crown resettled thousands of American Loyalists to the Bahamas; they took their slaves with them and established plantations on land grants. African slaves and their descendants constituted the majority of the population from this period on. 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 Bahamas became an independent Commonwealth realm in 1973 being led by Sir Lynden O. Pindling, with Elizabeth II as its queen. In terms of gross domestic productper 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 offshore finance.