Is the bahamas a country?

Question

Is the bahamas a country?

Answer 1

No freakin da the bahamas is a country =\

it is a island 30 minutes away(by plane) west of florida

Answer 2

The Bahamas are a country made of up of 700 islands.  It is a  former British colony and now a Commonwealth member. The country is a major center for offshore finance and has one of the world's largest open-registry shipping fleets.

Answer 3

Yes it is...  The Commonwealth of the Bahamas was formerly a overseas territory of Great Britain.  Now it is independent... (since 1973.)  The Bahamas is a member of the The United Nations, the OAS, the Caribbean Community, the Commonwealth and numerous other organisations.

http://www.bahamas.gov.bs/Bahamasweb/Abo...

Answer 4

The best way to describe the Bahamas is to say it's a Commonwealth with 700 hundred islands located in the Atlantic Ocean south east of Florida and the United States.

The Bahamas are independent and self governing. They received their independence from England in1973)