Caribbean Sea

The Caribbean Sea is a sea of the North Atlantic Ocean in the tropics of the Western Hemisphere, located south of the and southwest of the Sargasso Sea.
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  • Type: Sea
  • Description: tropical sea of the Atlantic Ocean, located east of Central America, south of the Greater Antilles and north of South America
  • Also known as: “Caribbean”, “North Sea of the Spaniards”, and “The Caribbean”
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Caribbean Sea

Latitude
15° north
Longitude
-75° or 75° west
Open location code
77772222+22
Open­Street­Map ID
node 305640123
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­sea
Wiki­data ID
Q1247
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In Other Languages

From Afrikaans to Yue Chinese—“Caribbean Sea” goes by many names.
  • Afrikaans: “Karibiese See”
  • Albanian: “Deti i Karaibeve”
  • Amharic: “ካሪቢያን ባሕር”
  • Arabic: “البحر الكاريبي”
  • Arabic: “البحر الكريبي”
  • Arabic: “بحر كاريبي”
  • Arabic: “كاريبي”
  • Aragonese: “Mar Caribe”
  • Armenian: “Կարիբյան ծով”
  • Assamese: “কেৰিবিয়ান সাগৰ”
  • Asturian: “Mar Caribe”
  • Azerbaijani: “Karib dənizi”
  • Azerbaijani: “Kariblər”
  • Balinese: “Segara Karibia”
  • Bambara: “Karayibu Ji”
  • Bashkir: “Кариб диңгеҙе”
  • Basque: “Karibe itsasoa”
  • Bavarian: “Karibischs Meea”
  • Bavarian: “Karibischs Meer”
  • Belarusian: “Карыбскае мора”
  • Bengali: “ক্যারিবীয় সাগর”
  • Bhojpuri: “कैरेबियन सागर”
  • Bosnian: “Karipsko more”
  • Breton: “Mor Karib”
  • Bulgarian: “Карибско море”
  • Burmese: “ကာရစ်ဘီယံ ပင်လယ်”
  • Catalan: “mar Carib”
  • Catalan: “Mar Carib”
  • Cebuano: “Caribbean Sea (dagat sa U.S. Virgin Islands)”
  • Cebuano: “Caribbean Sea”
  • Cebuano: “Dagat Caribbean”
  • Central Bikol: “Dagat Karibe”
  • Central Kurdish: “دەریای کاریبی”
  • Chavacano: “Mar Caribe”
  • Chechen: “Карибан хӀорд”
  • Chechen: “Карибийн хӀорд”
  • Chinese: “Caribe Hái”
  • Chinese: “加勒比海”
  • Chuvash: “Кариб тинĕсĕ”
  • Cornish: “Mor Karib”
  • Corsican: “Mare Caraibicu”
  • Corsican: “Mare di i Caraibi”
  • Corsican: “Mari Caraibicu”
  • Corsican: “Mari di i Caraibi”
  • Crimean Tatar: “Karib deñizi”
  • Croatian: “Karipsko more”
  • Czech: “Karibské moře”
  • Danish: “Caribiske Hav”
  • Dutch: “Caraibische Zee”
  • Dutch: “Caraïbische Zee”
  • Dutch: “Caribische Zee”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “البحر الكاريبى”
  • Esperanto: “Kariba Maro”
  • Estonian: “Kariibi meri”
  • Extremaduran: “Mari Caribi”
  • Faroese: “Karibiska Havið”
  • Fiji Hindi: “Caribbean Samundar”
  • Finnish: “Karibianmeri”
  • French: “mer des Antilles”
  • French: “mer des Caraïbes”
  • French: “Mer des Caraïbes”
  • Galician: “Mar Caribe”
  • Georgian: “კარიბის ზღვა”
  • German: “Karibisches Meer”
  • Gilaki: “کارائيب ٚ دریا”
  • Gilaki: “کاراییبˇ دریا”
  • Greek: “Καραϊβική Θάλασσα”
  • Guarani: “Para Karimbe”
  • Guarani: “Para Karíve”
  • Guianese Creole French: “Lanmè Karayib”
  • Gujarati: “કેરેબિયન સાગર”
  • Haitian: “Lanmè Karayib”
  • Hakka Chinese: “Caribe-hói”
  • Hakka Chinese: “Kâ-le̍t-pí-hói”
  • Hebrew: “הים הקריבי”
  • Hindi: “कॅरीबियाई सागर”
  • Hindi: “कैरिबियाई सागर”
  • Hungarian: “Karib-tenger”
  • Icelandic: “Karíbahaf”
  • Ido: “Karibeano”
  • Ido: “Karibiana Maro”
  • Iloko: “Baybay Karibe”
  • Inari Sami: “Karibiameerâ”
  • Indonesian: “Laut Karibia”
  • Ingush: “Кариба форд”
  • Interlingua: “Mar Caribe”
  • Irish: “Muir Chairib”
  • Italian: “Mar dei Caraibi”
  • Italian: “mare Caraibico”
  • Italian: “Mare Caraibico”
  • Italian: “Mare dei Caraibi”
  • Jamaican Creole English: “Kiaribiyan Sii”
  • Japanese: “カリブ海”
  • Javanese: “Sagara Karibiya”
  • Javanese: “Segara Karibiya”
  • Kabiyè: “Karayiibɩ Teŋgu”
  • Kabyle: “Ilel Akaribi”
  • Kannada: “ಕೆರಿಬ್ಬಿಯನ್ ಸಮುದ್ರ”
  • Kara-Kalpak: “Karib teńizi”
  • Karachay-Balkar: “Кариб тенгиз”
  • Kazakh: “Кариб теңізі”
  • Kirghiz: “Кариб деңизи”
  • Komering: “Lawok Karibia”
  • Korean: “까리브해”
  • Korean: “카리브해”
  • Kotava: “Kariba Bira”
  • Kurdish: “Deryaya Karîbê”
  • Latin: “Mare Caribaeum”
  • Latin: “Mare Caribicum”
  • Latvian: “Karību jūra”
  • Lezghian: “Кариб гьуьл”
  • Limburgan: “Caribische Ziè”
  • Lingua Franca Nova: “Mar Caribe”
  • Lithuanian: “Karibų jūra”
  • Livvi: “Karibien meri”
  • Lojban: “karibes. zei xamsi”
  • Lombard: “Mar di Caraib”
  • Low German: “Karibisch Meer”
  • Low German: “Karibische See”
  • Lower Sorbian: “Karibiske mórjo”
  • Luxembourgish: “Karibescht Mier”
  • Macedonian: “Карипско Море”
  • Madurese: “Tasè’ Karibia”
  • Maithili: “क्यारेबियन सागर”
  • Malagasy: “Ranomasina Karaîba”
  • Malay: “Laut Caribbean”
  • Malay: “Laut Kariba”
  • Malay: “لاءوت کاريبا”
  • Malay: “لاءوت کاريبيئن”
  • Malayalam: “കരീബിയൻ കടൽ”
  • Manx: “Yn Vooir Charibagh”
  • Marathi: “कॅरिबियन समुद्र”
  • Mazanderani: “کارائیب دریا”
  • Min Dong Chinese: “Caribe Hāi”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Caribe Hái”
  • Mingrelian: “კარიბიშ ზუღა”
  • Moksha: “Карибонь иневедь”
  • Mongolian: “Карибын тэнгис”
  • Moroccan Arabic: “لبحر د لكاريبي”
  • Navajo: “Kayíbíyinsíí”
  • Nepali: “क्यारिबियन सागर”
  • Nepali: “क्यारिबियाली सागर”
  • Newari: “क्यारिबियन सागर”
  • Northern Frisian: “Kariibisk Sia”
  • Northern Sami: “Karibiamearra”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Det karibiske hav”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Karibhavet”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Det karibiske havet”
  • Norwegian: “Det karibiske hav”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Mar Cariba”
  • Old English (ca. 450-1100): “Caribisc Sæ”
  • Old English (ca. 450-1100): “Caribisc Sǣ”
  • Ossetian: “Карибы денджыз”
  • Panjabi: “ਕਰੀਬੀਆਈ ਸਮੁੰਦਰ”
  • Panjabi: “ਕੈਰੇਬੀਆਈ ਸਾਗਰ”
  • Papiamento: “Laman Karibe”
  • Persian: “دریای کارائیب”
  • Piemontese: “Mar dij Caràib”
  • Polish: “Morze Karaibskie”
  • Portuguese: “Mar das Caraíbas”
  • Portuguese: “Mar do Caribe”
  • Romanian: “Caraibe”
  • Romanian: “Marea Caraibilor”
  • Romanian: “Marea de Nord a Spaniolilor”
  • Russia Buriat: “Кариб тэнгис”
  • Russia Buriat: “Карибын тэнгис”
  • Russian: “Караибское море”
  • Russian: “Карибское море”
  • Russian: “Кари́бы”
  • Rusyn: “Карібске море”
  • Samogitian: “Karėbu jūra”
  • Sardinian: “Mare Caraìbicu”
  • Scots: “Caribbean Sea”
  • Scots: “Caribbean”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “Am Muir Caraibeach”
  • Serbian: “Карипско море”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Karipsko more”
  • Sicilian: “Mari dî Caraibbi”
  • Sicilian: “Mari dî Caràibbi”
  • Silesian: “Karajibske Morze”
  • Sindhi: “ڪيريبئن سمنڊ”
  • Sinhala: “කැරිබියන් මුහුද”
  • Skolt Sami: “Karibiamiârr”
  • Slovak: “Karibské more”
  • Slovenian: “Karibsko morje”
  • Somali: “Bada Kaariibiyaanka”
  • Somali: “Badda Karabiya”
  • South Azerbaijani: “کارائیب دنیزی”
  • Spanish: “El Caribe”
  • Spanish: “Mar Caribe”
  • Standard Moroccan Tamazight: “ⵉⵍⵍ ⴰⴽⴰⵔⵉⴱⵉ”
  • Sundanese: “Laut Karibia”
  • Swahili: “Bahari ya Karibi”
  • Swedish: “Karibiska havet”
  • Swiss German: “S Karibische Meer”
  • Tagalog: “Dagat Karibe”
  • Tajik: “Баҳри Кариб”
  • Tamil: “கரிபியக் கடல்”
  • Tatar: “Кариб диңгезе”
  • Thai: “ทะเลแคริบเบียน”
  • Tosk Albanian: “Karibisches Meer”
  • Turkish: “Karayip Denizi”
  • Turkmen: “Karib deňzi”
  • Tyap: “Kyai A̱sa̱khwot Karibi”
  • Udmurt: “Карибской зарезь”
  • Ukrainian: “Карибське море”
  • Upper Sorbian: “Karibika”
  • Upper Sorbian: “Karibiske morjo”
  • Urdu: “بحیرہ کریبین”
  • Urdu: “بحیرہ کیریبین”
  • Uzbek: “Karib dengizi”
  • Venetian: “Mar de i Caràibi”
  • Venetian: “Mar dei Caràibi”
  • Veps: “Kariban meri”
  • Vietnamese: “biển Caribe”
  • Vietnamese: “Biển Caribe”
  • Vlaams: “Karajiebiesche Zêe”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Dagat Caribe”
  • Wayuu: “Palaaka Kariiwe”
  • Welsh: “Môr y Caribî”
  • Western Armenian: “Քարիպեան ծով”
  • Western Armenian: “Քարիպեան Ծով”
  • Western Frisian: “Karibyske See”
  • Western Mari: “Кариб тангыж”
  • Western Panjabi: “بحیرہ کیریبین”
  • Western Panjabi: “کیریبین سمندر”
  • Wu Chinese: “加勒比海”
  • Yakut: “Кариб байҕала”
  • Yiddish: “קאראיבישער ים”
  • Yoruba: “Òkun Kàríbẹ́ánì”
  • Yue Chinese: “加勒比海”
  • “Caribbean Sea”
  • “Karėbu jūra”
  • “Karibeh Weyatl”
  • “Mare Caraibeche”
  • “Ne Karibeh”
  • “telo suli Kalipi”
  • “कैरेबियन सागर”

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