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Official Name: Commonwealth of The Bahamas
Capital: Nassau
Location: Caribbean
Government Type: Constitutional Monarchy (Queen
Elizabeth II)
Flag adopted: 10
July 1973
Coat of arms adopted: 7 December 1971
Designer: Hervis Bain
ISO Code: BS
See also:
Concering Album 2000 [pay00] -
National Flag. CSW/--- 1:2 - The construction details that are
shown around the enges of the image are quite suspicious, unless
I have made a mistake counting on fingers myself. The horizontals
stripse are of equal width, there is no doubt about that, but
vertical division is given as 2+4, i.e. the triangle height is
suposed to be 1/3 of the length. Judging from all the pictures I
have seen that is entirely wrong - the triangle seems to be of
equal sides (i.e. the height is sqrt(3)/2).
eljko Heimer, 7 Febuary 2001
I agree. It is a mistake.
Armand du Payrat, 16 Febuary 2001
Bahamas flag colour shades from Album 2000 are:
Pantone --- CMYK
B 312c --- 100-0-15-0
Y 115c --- 0-10-80-0
Santiago Dotor, 26 Febuary 2001
Smith (1975) reported:
"The golden sands of the 700 Bahamian islands are reflected
in the centre of the flag, while the aquamarine stripes bring to
mind the various shades of ocean waters around those
islands. The black triangle indicates the unity of the
Bahamian people in their determination to develop the resources
of both land and sea."
This seems a bit "embroidered" to me, and given the
fact that the flag was fairly new in 1975 when the book was
published (and probably brand new when he actually wrote it), I
wonder whether Bahamians still see these aspirations in their
flag?
Rob Raeside, 12 March 2001
In Album 2000 - Corr. Nr 1 [pay01]
- Page BA 1.1 (National flag) - New specifications: ~2.6:~3.4
instead of 2:4 along the horizontal axis.
Ivan Sache, 8 October 2001
Bahamas is divided to 21 districts. There are no known flags
of those districts. The districts are:
- Acklins and Crooked Islands
- Bimini
- Cat Island
- Exuma
- Fresh Creek
- Freeport
- Governorīs Harbour
- Green Turtle Cay
- Harbour Island
- High Rock
- Inagua
- Kemps Bay
- Long Island
- Mayaguana
- Marsh Harbour
- Nichollstown and Berry Islands
- New Providence
- Ragged Island
- Rock Sound
- Sandy Point
- San Salvador and Rum Cay
List based on Administrative
divisions of the World.
Dov Gutterman, 25 October 2004