The archipelago to the northeast of cuba that was formerly a british dependency is called the Bahamas.
The Bahamas, formally the Commonwealth of The Bahamas, is a country in the Atlantic Ocean located within the Lucayan Archipelago of the West Indies. It accounts for 97 percent of the land area of the Lucayan Archipelago and is home to 88 percent of the archipelago's people. The archipelagic state is located in the Atlantic Ocean, north of Cuba and northwest of the island of Hispaniola (divided between Haiti and the Dominican Republic) and the Turks and Caicos Islands, southeast of the United States state of Florida, and east of the Florida Keys. On the island of New Providence, the capital is Nassau. According to the Royal Bahamas Defence Force, The Bahamas' territory encompasses 470,000 km2 (180,000 sq mi) of ocean.
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