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The Bahamas consists of a chain of islands spread out over some 800 km (500 mi) in the Atlantic Ocean, located to the east of Florida in the United States, north of Cuba and Hispaniola and west of the British Overseas Territory of the Turks and Caicos Islands (with which it forms the Lucayan archipelago). The Bahamas , officially the Commonwealth of The Bahamas,is anwithin theof the . It contains 97% of the Lucayan Archipelago's land area. Pre-Hispanic eraThe first inhabitants of the Bahamas were thepeople, who moved into the uninhabited southern islands from and Cuba around the 800s–1000s AD, having migrated there from mainland. The Bahamas is a, with as head of state represented locally by a .Political and legal traditions closely follow those of England and the . The Bahamas had a population of 407,906 at the 2018 Census, of which 25.9% were 14 or under, 67.2% 15 to 64 and 6.9% over 65. It has a population growth rate of 0.925% (2010), with a birth rate of 17.81/1,000 population, death rate of 9.35/1,000, and net. The name Bahamas is derived from thename Bahama ('large upper middle island'), used by the Indigenouspeople for the island of . Tourist guides often state that the name comes from the Spanish baja mar ('shallow sea'). The landmass that makes up what is the modern-day Bahamas, lies at the northern part of theregion and was believed to have been formed 200 million years ago when they began to separate from the supercontinent . Thearound. In terms of , the Bahamas is one of the wealthiest countries in the .Its currency (the ) is kept at a 1-to-1with the .The Bahamas relies heavily onto generate most of its.