Flag of the Bahamas
Officially Commonwealth of The Bahamas
What the flag looks like
Three equal horizontal bands of aquamarine, gold and aquamarine, with a black equilateral triangle at the hoist pointing into the stripes.
What it means
Aquamarine represents the surrounding sea, gold the sun and sandy beaches, and the black triangle the vigour and determination of the people.
How to remember it
The Bahamas
: a black arrowhead pointing into horizontal bands of aquamarine sea and golden sand; Jamaica
splits black and green with a gold X instead.
Fun facts
- The Bahamas is made up of roughly 700 islands and cays spread over a large area of the Atlantic.
- Christopher Columbus's first landfall in the Americas in 1492 was on an island in the Bahamas.
Bahamas at a glance
- Capital
- Nassau
- Region
- Caribbean
- Population
- 401,283
- Area
- 13,943 km²
- Languages
- English
- Currency
- Bahamian dollar ($), United States dollar ($)
- Flag adopted
- 1973
Flags often confused with the Bahamas
- Jamaica: The Bahamas and Jamaica both use black, gold and a third color. The Bahamas has horizontal aquamarine and gold stripes with a black triangle; Jamaica has a gold diagonal cross with green and black triangles.