Map of Bahamas

Bahamas is located in North America. Its territory lies in the northern and western hemispheres, centred near 25.0° N, 77.4° W. It is an island nation and shares no land borders with any other country, so every approach to it is made by sea or by air. Within North America, a continent of 23 countries bordered by the Arctic Ocean, the Atlantic Ocean and the Pacific Ocean, Bahamas is mapped here in full with its borders, capital and key facts.

Bahamas is an island state with no land borders. The nearest countries are reached across open water rather than over a shared frontier.

Bahamas covers about 13,943 km² (5,383 sq mi). That makes it the 156th-largest country in the world by area and the 14th-largest in North America, larger by area than 9 of the continent’s 23 countries.

It is home to a population of roughly 398,165, the 173rd-largest in the world and the 16th-largest in North America, accounting for about 0.1% of the continent’s people. With that land area, Bahamas has an average population density of about 29 people per km². Among the 23 countries of North America it stands 16th by population and 14th by area.

The seat of government is Nassau, and the official currency is the Bahamian dollar (BSD, $), and the main official language is English. Traffic drives on the left, and the country observes the time zone UTC-05:00.

Bahamas carries the ISO country codes BS and BHS, dials on the international calling code +1242 and uses the .bs internet domain.

Bahamas has no land neighbours. It is an island nation, so the countries nearest to it are reached across open water rather than over a shared border. Its position at 25.0° N, 77.4° W places it about 2,779 km from the equator, in the northern and western hemispheres, within the wider region of North America.

The interactive map above is centred on 25.0° N, 77.4° W and opens at zoom level 7, framing Bahamas within North America. A marker pin sits at the country’s approximate geographic centre; drag the map or use scroll and pinch to move from a regional overview down to the streets of Nassau. The map is drawn from OpenStreetMap data, the same open dataset used across this site, so place names, roads and coastlines stay consistent from one country to the next.

Bahamas lies about 2,779 km from the equator, in the northern and western hemispheres of the globe. As an island, its full extent is best seen by zooming out to take in the surrounding sea.

Bahamas keeps a single standard time zone, UTC-05:00. That figure is the country’s offset from Coordinated Universal Time (UTC), the modern reference that for everyday purposes matches Greenwich Mean Time, so local clocks sit -05:00 relative to UTC before any seasonal daylight saving change.

Bahamas recognises more than one official currency: Bahamian dollar (BSD, $) and United States dollar (USD, $).

The official language is English, which is what appears on signs, documents and many of the place labels you will see on the map.

For practical reference, vehicles drive on the left-hand side of the road, the international dialling code is +1242 and websites commonly use the .bs internet domain.

In short, Bahamas is an island nation in North America, with no land borders. Its capital is Nassau. Bahamas has a population of about 398,165 and covers around 13,943 km² (5,383 sq mi), ranking it 173rd in the world by population and 156th by area. The interactive map, facts table and questions on this page bring those details together in one place for Bahamas.

The flag of the Bahamas is composed of three equal horizontal bands of aquamarine, yellow and aquamarine, with a black equilateral triangle superimposed on the hoist side of the field. This triangle has its base on the hoist end and spans about one-third the width of the field.

The flag of Bahamas is shown above as an emoji, rendered by your device’s own font; see it alongside every other nation on the flags of the world page.