What is the area of bahamas in square miles in 2001?

The total area of land belonging to the Bahamas is 5,358 square miles. That is only the land mass however, as the real size would be much larger since the water area that belongs to the Bahama Archipelago goes over 180 000 square miles. There is nothing odd about this since the Bahamas consist of over 700 islands so the area has to be large.