{"id":132365,"date":"2026-11-06T10:54:50","date_gmt":"2026-11-06T05:24:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=132365"},"modified":"2026-11-12T10:56:31","modified_gmt":"2026-11-12T05:26:31","slug":"bahamas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/bahamas\/","title":{"rendered":"Bahamas"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><b>Bahamas Latest News<\/b><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Recently, Bahamas joined the International Solar Alliance (ISA) as its 116th member.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><b>About Bahamas<\/b><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><b>Location:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> It is an <\/span><b>archipelagic country<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> comprising over 700 coral islands, islets and cays situated in the <\/span><b>northwest of the West Indies in the West Atlantic Ocean.<\/b><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><b>Capital City:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> Nassau<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2><b>Geographical Features of Bahamas<\/b><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><b>Topography:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> The islands were mostly created by the <\/span><b>disintegration of coral reefs and seashells<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, and low scrub covers much of their surfaces.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><b>Climate:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> The Bahamas has a <\/span><b>subtropical marine climate<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> characterized by year-round warm temperatures, moderate rainfall, and cooling trade winds.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><b>Lakes:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> New Providence, San Salvador and Great Inagua<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><b>Mountain:<\/b> <b>Mount Alvernia<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, also known locally as Como Hill, is the highest point in The Islands of The Bahamas at 206 feet (63 meters).<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><b>Strategic Significance:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> The strategic location of the islands commands the gateway to the <\/span><b>Gulf of Mexico<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, the <\/span><b>Caribbean Sea, and the entire Central American region.<\/b><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>Source: <\/b><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/newsonair.gov.in\/bahamas-joins-international-solar-alliance-as-116th-member\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">News On Air<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bahamas is an archipelagic country comprising over 700 coral islands, islets and cays situated in the northwest of the West Indies in the West Atlantic Ocean. Read more about Bahamas, Location, Geographical Features, Latest News.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":132715,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[11433],"class_list":["post-132365","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","tag-bahamas","no-featured-image-padding"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132365","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/24"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=132365"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132365\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":132741,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132365\/revisions\/132741"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/132715"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=132365"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=132365"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=132365"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}