Bahamas

Facts

What the numbers say about Bahamas

• Russia, the largest place listed, is 1,347× the size of Bahamas.
• At 32 people per km², Bahamas is the 132nd most densely populated of the 185 places over 1,000 km²; the median is 72 per km².
• Bahamas lies at 24°N, close to the equator, where a standard web map (Web Mercator) is nearly true to size: it inflates area by only about 1.2×.
• Laid out flat, Bahamas's main territory stretches about 666 km north to south and 667 km east to west.
• Our measured 12,600 km² is 9.2% below Wikidata's official figure of 13,900 km². Official figures can include inland water or count land that an outline draws differently. This difference is flagged for review.

How Bahamas measures up

Bahamas holds 0.1% of the land area and 0.1% of the people of the 27 countries listed for North America. In Caribbean it is the 4th largest of 16.

Where Bahamas sits

• Bahamas's centre lies at 24.2°N, 76.5°W, in the northern and western hemispheres, about 2,690 km from the equator.
• Its main territory spans 21°N to 27°N, about 670 km from its southern edge to its northern.

If Bahamas had other densities

• At Bangladesh's density of 1,252 people per km², Bahamas would have 15.8 million people. It has 399,000.
• At Canada's density of 3.7 people per km², Bahamas would have 47,000 people. It has 399,000.
• At the median density of the places listed, 72 per km², it would have 912,000.

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