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AREA AND POPULATION. The Commonwealth of the Bahamas consists of 700 islands and more than 1,000 cays off the S.E. coast of Florida. They are the surface protuberances of two oceanic banks, the Little Bahama Bank and the Great Bahama Bank. Land area, 5,386·25 sq. miles (13,590 sq. km). The total rainfall (New Providence) in 1972 was 48·57 in.; highest in July (10·01 in.). Average winter temperature, 69·9° F. (21·1° C); average summer temperature, 82·8° F. (28·2° C.).
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Books of Reference
Annual Report, 1968–69. HMSO, 1969
Bahamas Handbook and Businessman’s Annnal, 1973
Commonwealth of the Bahamas, Statistical Abstract, 1970–71. Nassau, 1972
Craton, M. A., A History of the Bahamas. London, 1962
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Paxton, J. (1975). The Commonwealth of the Bahamas. In: Paxton, J. (eds) The Statesman’s Year-Book. The Statesman’s Yearbook. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230271043_7
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