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In geography, the Caribbean Basin or Caribbean Proper is generally defined as the Caribbean Sea and any territories in or touching the Caribbean Sea. This means countries like Barbados and The Bahamas, which are culturally and politically Caribbean, are not included. [1]
Anguilla (
United Kingdom)
Antigua and Barbuda 
Aruba (
Netherlands)
Colombia (Disputed by 
Jamaica, 
Nicaragua and 
United States)
Belize 
British Virgin Islands ( United Kingdom) Caribbean Netherlands ( Netherlands) Colombia 
Antioquia 
Atlántico 
Bolívar 
Cesar (Does not border the Caribbean Sea)
Chocó 
Córdoba 
La Guajira 
Magdalena 
San Andrés y Providencia 
Sucre 
Cayman Islands ( United Kingdom)
Costa Rica 
Cuba 
Curaçao ( Netherlands)
Dominica 
Dominican Republic 
France 
Grenada 
Haiti 
Honduras 
Guatemala Jamaica 
Mexico 
Montserrat ( United Kingdom)
Navassa Island (Disputed by Haiti) Nicaragua 
Panama 
Puerto Rico ( United States) Saint Barthélemy ( France)
Saint Kitts and Nevis 
Saint Lucia Saint Martin ( France)
Saint Vincent and the Grenadines Colombia (Disputed by Honduras, Jamaica, and United States)
Sint Maarten ( Netherlands)
Trinidad and Tobago 
United States Virgin Islands ( United States)
Venezuela 
The Antilles is an archipelago bordered by the Caribbean Sea to the south and west, the Gulf of Mexico to the northwest, and the Atlantic Ocean to the north and east.
The Inter-American Division of Seventh-day Adventists is a sub-entity of the General Conference of Seventh-day Adventists, which oversees the Church's work in Mexico, Central America, the Caribbean, and Northern South America.
The Association of Caribbean States is an advisory association of nations centered on the Caribbean Basin. It was formed with the aim of promoting consultation, cooperation, and concerted action among all the countries of the Caribbean coastal area. The primary purpose of the ACS is to promote greater trade between the nations, enhance transportation, develop sustainable tourism, and facilitate greater and more effective responses to local natural disasters.
The Commonwealth Caribbean is the region of the Caribbean with English-speaking countries and territories, which once constituted the Caribbean portion of the British Empire and are now part of the Commonwealth of Nations. The term includes many independent island nations, British Overseas Territories and some mainland nations.
The West Indies is a subregion of North America, surrounded by the North Atlantic Ocean and the Caribbean Sea, which comprises 13 independent island countries and 19 dependencies in three archipelagos: the Greater Antilles, the Lesser Antilles, and the Lucayan Archipelago.
The United Nations geoscheme for the Americas is an internal tool created and used by the UN's Statistics Division (UNSD) for the specific purpose of UN statistics.
The Spanish West Indies, Spanish Caribbean or the Spanish Antilles were Spanish colonies in the Caribbean. In terms of governance of the Spanish Empire, The Indies was the designation for all its overseas territories and was overseen by the Council of the Indies, founded in 1524 and based in Spain. When the Crown established the Viceroyalty of New Spain in 1535, the islands of the Caribbean came under its jurisdiction.
The Caribbean is a subregion of the Americas that includes the Caribbean Sea and its islands, some of which are surrounded by the Caribbean Sea and some of which border both the Caribbean Sea and the North Atlantic Ocean; the nearby coastal areas on the mainland are sometimes also included in the region. The region is south-east of the Gulf of Mexico and Northern America, east of Central America, and north of South America.
This is a timeline of the territorial evolution of the Caribbean and nearby areas of North, Central, and South America, listing each change to the internal and external borders of the various countries that make up the region.
The languages of the Caribbean reflect the region's diverse history and culture. There are six official languages spoken in the Caribbean:
The term Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) is an English-language acronym referring to the Latin American and the Caribbean region. The term LAC covers an extensive region, extending from The Bahamas and Mexico to Argentina and Chile. The region has over 670,230,000 people as of 2016, and spanned for 21,951,000 square kilometres (8,475,000 sq mi).
The following lists events that happened during 2020 in The Caribbean.
