Flag of the Bahamas Postcard

This design features the national flag of the Bahamas (known officially as the Commonwealth of The Bahamas), which is a country within the Lucayan Archipelago of the West Indies in the Atlantic. The archipelagic state consists of more than 700 islands, cays and islets in the Atlantic Ocean. The Bahamas is located north of Cuba and Hispaniola Island (Haiti and the Dominican Republic), northwest of the Turks and Caicos Islands, southeast of the US state of Florida and east of the Florida Keys. The capital of the Bahamas is Nassau on the island of New Providence. The other main inhabited islands are Grand Bahama, Eleuthera, Cat Island, Rum Cay, Long Island, San Salvador Island, Ragged Island, Acklins, Crooked Island, Exuma, Berry Islands, Mayaguana, the Bimini islands, Great Abaco and Great Inagua. The largest island is Andros.