Bahamas

The country calling code for Bahamas is +1. Country calling codes identify the destination country when placing an international call. The international access prefix used to leave your originating country varies by telephone network. On mobile phones, the + symbol is generally used instead. After the country code, dial the local Bahamas number, dropping any leading zero used for domestic dialling.

Bahamas is assigned BS as its ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 code and BHS as its alpha-3 code. Alpha-2 codes are the two-letter codes used in web addresses, currency pairs and shipping forms. Alpha-3 codes are the three-letter codes used in banking, aviation and international standards work. The internet country code top-level domain for Bahamas is .bs. ISO country codes are standardized identifiers, but they can change when countries or territories undergo changes in international status or classification.

The official currency of Bahamas is the Bahamian dollar, with the ISO 4217 code BSD and the symbol $. Prices, salaries and official accounts inside Bahamas are quoted in BSD. Exchange rates move daily, so check a live rate before converting rather than relying on a figure you saw last week.

The primary time zone for Bahamas is -05:00, currently UTC-05:00. The clock reads from your own device, so it follows daylight saving rather than showing a fixed offset.

The capital of Bahamas is Nassau. Bahamas sits in Americas, specifically the Caribbean subregion. Its approximate centre point is 24.25000000, -76.00000000. Traffic in Bahamas drives on the left. Languages recorded for Bahamas: English.

No land borders are recorded for Bahamas in this dataset, which is typical of island states and territories. The nearby page still ranks the closest countries by straight-line distance.