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 and .
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The are an archipelago in the southeastern Caribbean, forming a boundary between the Caribbean Sea and the Atlantic Ocean. These islands were the first part of the New World to be settled and colonized by Europeans.

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is a Caribbean island. Its white sandy beaches can compete with any in the world and vary from metropolitan cocktail heavens and bustling surfing hotspots to quiet island getaways.

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is the largest Caribbean island. The country has nine World Heritage Sites, as well as beaches, colonial architecture and distinct cultural history.

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The is a Caribbean country that occupies the eastern half of the island of , which it shares with . Besides white sand beaches and mountain landscapes, the country is home to the oldest European city in the Americas, now part of .

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The is an archipelago nation in the Atlantic Ocean off the east coast of . The country is made up of about 3,000 islands and cays, of which approximately 30 are populated.

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is a Caribbean country on the western half of the island of . The poorest country in the Western Hemisphere, the country suffers from a myriad of social, economic, and political problems and since the 1950s, it has been in the news for all the wrong reasons.

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is an island nation in the Caribbean that attracts sunseekers for its laid-back beach culture, and music fans on the trail of 's most famous son, reggae legend Bob Marley.

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is a self-governing overseas territory in the Atlantic Ocean north of the Caribbean, off the coast of . It is one of the last remnants of the British colonial empire in North America.

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is a desert Caribbean island, a constituent country of the Kingdom of the Netherlands. Located off the coast of , this flat, river-less island is renowned for its white sand beaches.

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The are only about 60 km long, and consist of over 40 islands and cays. These islands have fabulous beaches throughout; in particular, Grace Bay.

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The are an island group in the Caribbean Sea, 90 mi south of . They are a self-governing British Overseas Territory. The stunning coral reefs and outstandingly clear waters have made this island group a popular destination for divers.

Caribbean

  • Type: 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: “Caraibas”, “Caraïbe”, “Caraïbisch gebied”, “Caraïbische eilanden”, “Caribbean Islands”, “Caribbean region”, “Cariben”, “el Caribe”, “El Caribe”, “espace caraïbe”, “espace des Caraïbes”, “Kakaribihan”, “Karib-szigetek”, “Kariben”, “Karibi-szigetek”, “Karibian saaret”, “Länsi-Intia”, “región del Caribe”, “Region Karaibski”, “The Caribbean”, “vùng Ca-ri-bê”, “Wast Indies”, “Wes Indee dem”, “Wyspy Karaibskie”, “Вест-Індыя”, “Վեստ Ինդիա”, “الكاريبى”, “ⴰⴽⴰⵕⴰⵢⵉⴱⵉ”, “कॅरीबियाई”, and “カリブ地域”
  • Neighbors:
  • Categories: transcontinental region, archipelago, and locality
  • Location:
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Latitude of center
14.5256° or 14° 31′ 32″ north
Longitude of center
-75.8183° or 75° 49′ 6″ west
Population
39,200,000
Open­Street­Map ID
node 5702212725
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­region
Geo­Names ID
9863210
Wiki­data ID
Q664609
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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”
  • Arabic: “الكاريبي”
  • Armenian: “Կարիբյան ավազան”
  • Asturian: “Caribe”
  • Azerbaijani: “Karib hövzəsi”
  • Basque: “Karibea”
  • Bavarian: “Karibik”
  • 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”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “كاريبى”
  • Esperanto: “Karibaj Landoj”
  • Esperanto: “Karibio”
  • Estonian: “Kariibi mere regioon”
  • Faroese: “Karibia”
  • Finnish: “Karibia”
  • Finnish: “Karibianmeri”
  • French: “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: “कैरिबिया”
  • Hindi: “कैरिबियाई क्षेत्र”
  • Hungarian: “Karib-térség”
  • 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: “カリブ海”
  • Japanese: “カリブ海地域”
  • Javanese: “Karibia”
  • Javanese: “Kepuloan Karibia”
  • Kadazan Dusun: “Karibia”
  • Kashubian: “Karajibë”
  • Kazakh: “Карибтер”
  • Kikuyu: “Caribbean”
  • 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: “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: “Karibia”
  • 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: “Karaiby”
  • 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”
  • 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”
  • 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”
  • Vietnamese: “Caribe”
  • 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”

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