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The Caribbean, (Spanish: Caribe; French: Caraïbe or more commonly Antilles; Dutch: Cariben or Caraïben, or more commonly Antillen) or the West Indies, is a group of islands and countries which are in or border the Caribbean Sea which lies on the Caribbean Plate. The countries and islands of the Caribbean are located to the south and east of Mexico and to the north and west of Venezuela, South America. There are at least 7,000 islands, islets, reefs, and cayes in the region. They are organized into 25 territories including sovereign states, overseas departments, and dependencies.
The name "West Indies" originates from Christopher Columbus' idea that he had landed in the Indies (then meaning all of south and east Asia) when he had in fact reached the Americas. The name "Caribbean" is named after the Caribs, one of the dominant Amerindian groups in the region at the time of European contact. The Caribbean consists of the Greater and Lesser Antilles, and is often considered part of North America.
At one time, there was a short-lived country called the Federation of the West Indies composed of ten of the English-speaking Caribbean territories of the region.
The Caribbean area is also famous for its sea pirates. See the article piracy in the Caribbean.
The region known as "Caribbean" is usually restricted to the islands of the Caribbean Sea, although sometimes the continental American coastline is included.
Contents
- 1 Historical groupings
- 2 Present-day island territories of the Caribbean
- 3 Continental countries with Caribbean coastlines and islands
- 4 Island territories near the Caribbean
- 5 Indigenous Tribes
- 6 See also
- 7 Regional Institutions
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Historical groupings
- Main article: History of the Caribbean
Most islands at some point were, or still are, colonies of European nations:
- British West Indies / Anglophone Caribbean - Anguilla, Antigua and Barbuda, Barbados, British Virgin Islands, Cayman Islands, Dominica (also French Creole speaking), Grenada, Guyana, Jamaica, Montserrat, Saint Kitts and Nevis, Saint Lucia (also French Creole speaking), Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Trinidad and Tobago and the Turks and Caicos Islands
- Danish West Indies - present-day United States Virgin Islands
- Dutch West Indies - present-day Netherlands Antilles and Aruba
- French West Indies - Anguilla (briefly), Antigua and Barbuda (briefly), Dominica, Dominican Republic, Grenada, Haiti, Montserrat (briefly), Saint Lucia, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Sint Eustatius (briefly), St Kitts and Nevis (St Kitts, but not Nevis), Trinidad and Tobago (Tobago only), present-day U.S. Virgin Islands (Saint Croix only, briefly), and the current French overseas départements of Martinique and Guadeloupe (including Saint-Barthélemy and northern half of Saint Martin)
- Spain - Cuba, Hispaniola (present-day Dominican Republic and Haiti), Puerto Rico
The British West Indies were formerly united by the United Kingdom into a West Indies Federation. The independent countries which were once a part of the B.W.I. still have a unified composite cricket team that successfully competes in test matches and one-day internationals. The West Indian cricket team includes the South American nation of Guyana, the only former British colony on that continent.
In addition, these countries share the University of the West Indies as a regional entity. The university consists of three main campuses in Jamaica, Barbados and Trinidad and Tobago, a smaller campus in the Bahamas and Resident Tutors in other contributing territories.
Present-day island territories of the Caribbean
Detail of tectonic plates from: Tectonic plates of the world
- See also: Caribbean South America, Caribbean basin
- Anguilla (British dependency)
- Anguillita Island
- Dog Island
- East Cay
- Little Scrub Island
- Prickly Pear Cays
- Sandy Island
- Scrub Island
- Seal Island
- Sombrero
- West Cay
- Antigua and Barbuda
- Aruba (part of the Kingdom of the Netherlands)
- Barbados
- Barbados
- Culpepper Island
- Pelican Island (now absorbed into Barbados)
- British Virgin Islands (British dependency, shares the Virgin Islands with the U.S. Virgin Islands.)
- Anegada
- Beef Island
- Bellamy Cay
- Carvel Rock
- Cockroach Island
- Cooper Island
- Dead Chest Cay
- Diamond Cay
- Dog Islands
- Drowned Island
- East Seal Dog Island
- Eustatia Island
- Fallen Jerusalem Island
- Frenchmans Cay
- Grouge Dog Island
- Ginger Island
- Great Camanoe
- Great Dog Island
- Great Thatch
- Great Tobago Island
- Green Cay
- Guana Island
- Jost Van Dyke
- Key Cay
- Little Anegada
- Little Camanoe
- Little Cay
- Little Jost Van Dyke
- Little Seal Dog Island
- Little Thatch
- Little Tobago
- Little Wickmans Cay
- Marina Cay
- Mosquito Island
- Nanny Cay
- Necker Island
- Norman Island
- Old Jerusalem Island
- Oyster Rock
- Pelican Island
- Peter Island
- Prickly Pear Island
- Saba Rock
- Salt Cay
- Sandy Cay
- Scrub Island
- Spanish Island
- Tortola
- Virgin Gorda
- West Dog Island
- Cayman Islands (British dependency)
- Cayman Brac
- Grand Cayman (with the capital George Town)
- Little Cayman
- Cuba
- Dominica
- Bird Island (disputed territory with Venezuela located about 110 km (70 mi) west of the island of Dominica)
- Grenada (shares the Grenadines group with Saint Vincent and the Grenadines)
- Carriacou
- Grenada
- Petit Martinique
- Ronde Island
- Petite Martinique
- Guadeloupe (overseas department of France)
- Basse-Terre
- La Désirade
- Grande-Terre
- Marie-Galante
- Iles de la Petite Terre
- Saint-Barthélemy (also Saint Barts)
- Saint-Martin (part of the island Saint Martin shared with the Netherlands Antilles; note the dash)
- Iles des Saintes
- Terre de Haut
- Terre de Bas
- Hispaniola
- Jamaica
- Martinique (overseas department of France)
- Montserrat (British dependency)
- Navassa Island (U.S. insular area)
- Netherlands Antilles (part of the Kingdom of the Netherlands)
- Bonaire
- Curaçao
- Saba
- Sint Eustatius
- Sint Maarten (part of the island Saint Martin shared with Guadeloupe)
- Puerto Rico (U.S. commonwealth)
- Culebra
- Mona
- Puerto Rico
- Vieques
- Saint Kitts and Nevis
- Saint Lucia
- Saint Vincent and the Grenadines (shares the Grenadines group with Grenada)
- Baliceaux Island
- Bequia
- Canouan Island
- Mayreau
- Mustique
- Palm Island
- Petit Mustique
- Petit Saint Vincent
- Saint Vincent
- Tobago Cays
- Union Island
- Young Island
- Trinidad and Tobago
- Tobago
- Trinidad
- Chacachacare
- Gaspar Grande
- Huevos
- Monos
- United States Virgin Islands (U.S. territory, shares the Virgin Islands with the British Virgin Islands)
- Birsk Island
- Buck Island
- Capella Island
- Cas Cay
- Cow And Calf Island
- Dog Island
- Dry Rock
- Fish Cay
- Flat Cay
- Grass Cay
- Great Saint James Island
- Green Cay
- Hassel Island
- Inner Brass Island
- Johnsons Reef
- Leduck Island
- Little Saint James Island
- Lovango Cay
- Ningo Island
- Outer Brass Island
- Packet Rock
- Patricia Cay
- Saba Island
- Saint Croix
- Saint John
- Saint Thomas
- South-West Rock
- Stranglers Island
- Thatch Cay
- Turtledove Cay
- Water Island
- Welk Rock
Continental countries with Caribbean coastlines and islands
- Belize
- Ambergris Caye
- Belize City
- Big Creek
- Caye Caulker
- Glover's Reef
- Hicks Cays
- Lighthouse Reef
- South Water Caye
- Turneffe Islands
- Colombia
- Archipelago of San Andres and Providencia
- Costa Rica
- French Guiana
- Guatemala
- Guyana
- Honduras
- Cortés department
- Atlántida department
- Gracias a Dios department
- Islas de la Bahía Department
- Puerto Cortés
- Tela
- La Ceiba
- Trujillo
- La Mosquitia
- Puerto Lempira
- Guanaja
- Roatán
- Útila
- Cayos Cochinos
- Swan Islands
- Mexico
- Cancún
- Isla Contoy
- Isla Cozumel
- Isla Mujeres
- Nicaragua
- Corn Islands
- Cayos Miskitos
- Panama
- San Blas Islands
- Bocas del Toro
- Suriname
- Venezuela
- Isla Margarita
- Los Monjes Archipelago
- Las Aves Archipelago
- Isla de Aves
- Los Hermanos Island
- Los Frailes Island
- Los Roques Archipelago
- La Sola Island
- La Tortuga Island
- La Orchila Island
- Los Testigos Island
- La Blanquilla Island
- Isla de Patos
The nations of Belize and Guyana, although on the mainland of Central America and South America respectively, were former British colonies and maintain many cultural ties to the Caribbean and are members of CARICOM. The Turneffe Islands (and many other islands and reefs) are part of Belize and lie in the Caribbean Sea.
Island territories near the Caribbean
Though not technically in the Caribbean Sea, the nearby Bahaman Archipelago is sometimes considered to be part of the Caribbean.
- Bahamas
- Abaco
- Acklins Island
- Andros
- Bimini Islands
- Cat Island
- Crooked Island
- Eleuthera
- Grand Bahama
- Great Abaco
- Great Exuma
- Great Inaco
- Long Island
- Mayaguana
- New Providence
- Ragged Island
- San Salvador Island
- Turks and Caicos Islands (British dependency)
- Grand Turk
- Middle Caicos
- North Caicos
- Parrot Cay
- Pine Cay
- Providenciales
- Salt Cay
- South Caicos
Indigenous Tribes
- Arawak
- Carib
- Ciboney
- Garifuna
- Lucayan
- Taino
See also
Find more information on Caribbean by searching Wikipedia's sister projects:
Dictionary definitions from Wiktionary
Textbooks from Wikibooks
Quotations from Wikiquote
Source texts from Wikisource
Images and media from Commons
News stories from Wikinews
- African diaspora
- Americas (terminology)
- British Afro-Caribbean community
- Caribbean English
- CONCACAF
- Council on Hemispheric Affairs
- History of the Caribbean
- Indo-Caribbean
- Music of the Caribbean
- Politics of the Caribbean
- Tongue of the Ocean
- Tourism in Caribbean
- West Indies Federation
Regional Institutions
Here are some of the bodies that several islands share in collaboration:
- Association of Caribbean States (ACS), Trinidad and Tobago
- Caribbean Community (CARICOM), Guyana
- Organisation of Eastern Caribbean States (OECS), Saint Lucia
- Caribbean Development Bank (CDB), Barbados
- Caribbean Disaster Emergency Response Agency (CDERA), Barbados
- Caribbean Examinations Council (CXC), Barbados and Jamaica
- Caribbean Programme for Economic Competitiveness (CPEC), Saint Lucia [1]
- Caribbean Tourism Organisation (CTO), Barbados
- Inter-American Economic Council (IAEC), Washington, D.C.
- Latin American and Caribbean Internet Addresses Registry (LACNIC), Brazil and Uruguay
- United Nations - Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC), Chile and Trinidad and Tobago
- The Caribbean Regional Environmental Programme (CREP) [2]
- Caribbean Association of Industry and Commerce (CAIC), Trinidad and Tobago [3]
- Caribbean Hotel Association (CHA), Puerto Rico [4]
- Caribbean Regional Fisheries Mechanism (CRFM), Belize [5]
- Caribbean Regional Negotiating Machinery (CRNM), Barbados and Dominican Republic [6]
Many of the nations in the Caribbean play international cricket as one team called the West Indies.
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