Because it contains a chain of islands within a sea or stretch of water.
The Bahamas
The term is archipelago.
The archipelago that lies between Florida and Haiti is the Bahamas. An archipelago is a group of islands or island chain.
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The Bahamas is an archipelago that is located northeast of Cuba.
It is its own chain of islands, an archipelago named The Bahamas.
700 islands are there in the archipelago of the Bahamas,cannot believe you out there did not know that.
The Bahamas is a nation composed of many islands, also known as an archipelago. It does not border any countries because it is surrounded by water. The nearest countries are Cuba, Haiti, Dominican Republic and USA.
A country with many islands is called an archipelago.