Caribbean
The islands of the Caribbean Sea or West Indies are an extensive archipelago in the far west of the Atlantic Ocean, mostly strung between North and South America.
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Caribbean
- Region with 39,200,000 residents
- Description: region to the center-east of America composed of many islands / coastal regions surrounding the Caribbean Sea
- Also known as“Caribbean Islands”“Caribbean region”“Caribe”“The Caribbean”
- Neighbors: South America
- Categories
- Location: North America
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Latitude of center
14.5256° or 14° 31′ 32″ north
Longitude of center
-75.8183° or 75° 49′ 6″ west
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In Other Languages
From Afrikaans to Zeeuws—“Caribbean” goes by many names.
- Afrikaans: “Karibiese gebied”
- Albanian: “Karaibet”
- Amharic: “ካሪቢያን”
- Antigua and Barbuda Creole English: “Karibiyan”
- Antigua and Barbuda Creole English: “Kyaribiyan”
- Antigua and Barbuda Creole English: “Wes Indee dem”
- Arabic: “الكاريبي”
- Armenian: “Կարիբյան ավազան”
- Armenian: “Վեստ Ինդիա”
- Asturian: “Caribe”
- Azerbaijani: “Karib hövzəsi”
- Basque: “Karibea”
- Bavarian: “Karibik”
- Belarusian: “Вест-Індыя”
- Belarusian: “Вэст-Індыя”
- Belarusian: “Карыбы”
- Bengali: “ক্যারিবীয় অঞ্চল”
- Bislama: “Karibin”
- Bosnian: “Karibi”
- Breton: “Karib”
- Bulgarian: “Карибски регион”
- Burmese: “ကာရစ်ဘီယံဒေသ”
- Catalan: “Carib”
- Central Bikol: “Karibe”
- Central Kurdish: “کاریبی”
- Chechen: “Вест-Инди”
- Chinese: “加勒比”
- Chinese: “加勒比地区”
- Chinese: “加勒比地區”
- Corsican: “Caraibi”
- Croatian: “Karibi”
- Czech: “Karibik”
- Dagbani: “Caribbean”
- Danish: “Caribien”
- Dimli (individual language): “Karayib”
- Dimli (individual language): “Karibieni”
- Dutch: “Caraïben”
- Dutch: “Caraïbisch gebied”
- Dutch: “Caraïbische eilanden”
- Dutch: “Cariben”
- Egyptian Arabic: “الكاريبى”
- Egyptian Arabic: “كاريبى”
- Esperanto: “Karibaj Landoj”
- Esperanto: “Karibio”
- Estonian: “Kariibi mere regioon”
- Faroese: “Karibia”
- Finnish: “Karibia”
- Finnish: “Karibian saaret”
- Finnish: “Karibianmeri”
- Finnish: “Länsi-Intia”
- French: “Caraïbe”
- French: “Caraïbes”
- French: “espace caraïbe”
- French: “espace des Caraïbes”
- Friulian: “Caraibs”
- Galician: “Caribe”
- Georgian: “კარიბები”
- German: “Karibik”
- Greek: “Καραϊβική”
- Guarani: “Karimbe”
- Guarani: “Karíve”
- Guianese Creole French: “Karayb”
- Haitian: “Karayib”
- Hakka Chinese: “Caribe Thi-khî”
- Hausa: “Karibiyan”
- Hebrew: “הקריביים”
- Hindi: “कॅरीबियाई”
- Hindi: “कैरिबिया”
- Hindi: “कैरिबियाई क्षेत्र”
- Hungarian: “Karib-szigetek”
- Hungarian: “Karib-térség”
- Hungarian: “Karibi-szigetek”
- Iban: “Karibia”
- Icelandic: “Karíbahafseyjar”
- Iloko: “Karibe”
- Inari Sami: “Karibia”
- Indonesian: “Karibia”
- Irish: “Muir Chairib”
- Italian: “Caraibi”
- Jamaican Creole English: “Kiaribiyan”
- Jamaican Creole English: “Kyaribiyan”
- Japanese: “カリブ地域”
- Japanese: “カリブ海”
- Japanese: “カリブ海地域”
- Javanese: “Karibia”
- Javanese: “Kepuloan Karibia”
- Kadazan Dusun: “Karibia”
- Kashubian: “Karajibë”
- Kazakh: “Карибтер”
- Kikuyu: “Caribbean”
- Kinaray-A: “Kakaribihan”
- Kinaray-A: “Karibe”
- Kongo: “Karibe”
- Korean: “카리브 제도”
- Korean: “카리브”
- Kotava: “Kariba is Antilla”
- Kurdish: “Karîb”
- Lao: “ຄາຣິບຽນ”
- Latin: “Caribaeum”
- Latvian: “Karību reģions”
- Limburgan: “Caraïbische eileng”
- Lithuanian: “Karibų jūros regionas”
- Lombard: “America caraibica”
- Low German: “Kariben”
- Low German: “Karibik”
- Low German: “Karibisk gebeed”
- Luxembourgish: “Karibik”
- Macedonian: “Кариби”
- Malagasy: “Karaiba”
- Malagasy: “Karaîba”
- Malay: “Caribbean”
- Malay: “Karibia”
- Malay: “کاريبيئن”
- Malayalam: “കരീബിയൻ”
- Maltese: “Karibew”
- Marathi: “कॅरिबियन”
- Min Dong Chinese: “Caribe dê-kṳ̆”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Caribe Tē-khu”
- Mingrelian: “კარიბიშ კოკეფი”
- Nepali: “क्यारिबियाली”
- Northern Frisian: “Kariibik”
- Northern Sami: “Karibia”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Caribbean”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Karibia”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Karibien”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Karibia”
- Norwegian: “Karibia”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Cariba”
- Oromo: “Karibiyaan”
- Panjabi: “ਕੈਰੀਬੀਆ”
- Papiamento: “Karibe”
- Persian: “کارائیب”
- Persian: “منطقه کارائیب”
- Picard: “Caraïbes”
- Piemontese: “América caraìbica”
- Polish: “Caribbean”
- Polish: “Caribe”
- Polish: “Karaiby”
- Polish: “Region Karaibski”
- Polish: “Wyspy Karaibskie”
- Portuguese: “Caraibas”
- Portuguese: “Caraíbas”
- Portuguese: “Caribe”
- Pushto: “کارابين”
- Quechua: “Chawpi Awya Yalap Wat’a qutu”
- Quechua: “Chawpi Awya Yalap Wat’ankuna”
- Romanian: “Caraibe”
- Romanian: “Insulele Caraibe”
- Romansh: “Caribica”
- Russian: “Вест-Индия”
- Russian: “Карибский регион”
- Russian: “Карибы”
- Sanskrit: “वेष्ट्-इण्डीस्”
- Sardinian: “Caràibes”
- Saterfriesisch: “Karibik”
- Scots: “Caribbean”
- Scots: “Wast Indies”
- Scottish Gaelic: “An Roinn Charaibeach”
- Serbian: “Кариби”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Karibi”
- Silesian: “Karaiby”
- Sindhi: “ڪيريبيئن علائقو”
- Skolt Sami: “Karibia”
- Slovak: “Karibik”
- Slovenian: “Karibi”
- Somali: “Kaaribiyaan”
- South Azerbaijani: “کارائیپ”
- Spanish: “Caribe”
- Spanish: “el Caribe”
- Spanish: “El Caribe”
- Spanish: “región del Caribe”
- Standard Moroccan Tamazight: “ⴰⴽⴰⵕⴰⵢⵉⴱⵉ”
- Standard Moroccan Tamazight: “ⴽⴰⵕⴰⵢⵉⴱⵉ”
- Sundanese: “Karibia”
- Swahili: “Visiwa vya Karibi”
- Swedish: “Karibien”
- Swedish: “Västindien”
- Swiss German: “Karibik”
- Tagalog: “Karibe”
- Talysh: “Karibi hevzə”
- Talysh: “Karibi ləpəkon”
- Tamil: “கரிபியன்”
- Tatar: “Кәриб төбәге”
- Telugu: “కరిబియన్”
- Thai: “แคริบเบียน”
- Tibetan: “ཁེ་ར་བི་ཧན།”
- Tonga (Tonga Islands): “ʻAmelika Kalipiane”
- Tulu: “ವೆಸ್ಟ್ ಇ೦ಡೀಸ್”
- Tulu: “ವೆಸ್ಟ್ ಇಂಡೀಸ್”
- Tumbuka: “Caribbean”
- Turkish: “Karayipler”
- Ukrainian: “Кариби”
- Urdu: “کیریبین”
- Venetian: “Caràibe”
- Venetian: “Caràibi”
- Venetian: “Caribe”
- Vietnamese: “Caribe”
- Vietnamese: “vùng Ca-ri-bê”
- Vietnamese: “vùng Caribe”
- Vietnamese: “Vùng Caribe”
- Vlaams: “Karajiebn”
- Vlax Romani: “Kareybe”
- Waray (Philippines): “Caribe”
- Welsh: “Y Caribî”
- Western Frisian: “Karibysk gebiet”
- Western Frisian: “Karibysk Gebiet”
- Western Panjabi: “کیریبیا”
- Wu Chinese: “加勒比地区”
- Wu Chinese: “卡里平”
- Yiddish: “קאראאיבן”
- Yoruba: “Kàríbẹ́ánì”
- Yue Chinese: “加勒比”
- Zeeuws: “Caraïben”
North America: Highlights
Notable places include United States and Canada.
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