Geographicals

Bahamas

A chain of islands, cays, and reefs in the West Indies, lying southeast of Florida and north of Cuba. It is an independent state, called also the Commonwealth of the Bahamas or the Bahama Islands. The name likely represents the local name Guanahani, itself of uncertain origin. (From Webster's New Geographical Dictionary, 1988, p106 & Room, Brewer's Dictionary of Names, 1992, p45)

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A chain of islands, cays, and reefs in the West Indies, lying southeast of Florida and north of Cuba. It is an independent state, called also the Commonwealth of the Bahamas or the Bahama Islands. The name likely represents the local name Guanahani, itself of uncertain origin. (From Webster's New Geographical Dictionary, 1988, p106 & Room, Brewer's Dictionary of Names, 1992, p45)

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Indexed with the subheadings epidemiology, ethnology.

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a chain of islands in the West Indies

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  1. Z01w.107w.084w.900w.100w
  2. Z01w.639w.880w.100w

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  1. National Library of Medicine. Bahamas. Medical Subject Headings (MeSH). 2026. Unique ID D001444. http://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/2026/D001444
  2. Bahamas. In: Wikipedia. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Bahamas
  3. Bahamas. In: Wikidata. https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q778