Independence Day (Bahamas), celebrates the independence of the Bahamas from the United Kingdom in 1973.

The holidays in The Bahamas include the following:

The Bahamas, officially the Commonwealth of The Bahamas, is an island country located within the Lucayan Archipelago. It contains 97 per cent of the archipelago's land area and 88 per cent of its population. It comprises more than 3,000 islands, cays and islets in the Atlantic Ocean, located north of Cuba and north-west of the island of Hispaniola and the Turks and Caicos Islands, southeast of the U.S. state of Florida and east of the Florida Keys. The capital and largest city is Nassau on the island of New Providence. The Royal Bahamas Defence Force describes the Bahamas' territory as encompassing 470,000 km² (180,000 sq mi) of ocean space.