{"id":3615,"count":13,"description":"The Bahamas are an island state in the Atlantic Ocean and lie southeast of the United States (Florida) and northeast of Cuba. The approximately 700 islands have a north-south extension of about 650 kilometers and a west-east width of up to 750 kilometers. Although the Bahamas lie in the open Atlantic Ocean, they are counted as part of the Caribbean. The archipelago got its name from the Spanish conquistadors. They called the waters around the islands Baja Mar (Spanish for 'shallow sea'), which later became the Bahamas. The two most important cities by far are the capital Nassau and Freeport. Together they are home to more than three quarters of the population. Nassau is by far the largest city of the island state with more than 200,000 inhabitants.","link":"https:\/\/one-million-places.com\/en\/central-america-caribbean\/the-bahamas","name":"The Bahamas","slug":"the-bahamas","taxonomy":"category","parent":3612,"meta":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/one-million-places.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories\/3615","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/one-million-places.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/one-million-places.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/taxonomies\/category"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/one-million-places.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories\/3612"}],"wp:post_type":[{"href":"https:\/\/one-million-places.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts?categories=3615"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}