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The Caribbean Sea is an oceanic sea on the Caribbean Plate. The Caribbean Sea is separated from the ocean by several island arcs of various ages. The youngest stretches from the Lesser Antilles to the Virgin Islands to the northeast of Trinidad and Tobago off the coast of Venezuela .
- Mesoamerican Barrier Reef
A coral skeleton from the Mesoamerican Barrier Reef System,...
- Cayman Trough
The Cayman Trough (also known as the Cayman Trench, Bartlett...
- Gulf of Honduras
The Gulf of Honduras is shown in the centre of this map. The...
- List of Caribbean islands
Almost all of the Caribbean islands are in the Caribbean...
- History of the Caribbean
The history of the Caribbean reveals the significant role...
- Mesoamerican Barrier Reef
The sea is southeast of the Gulf of Mexico. This entire sea covers an area of 2,750,000 square kilometres (1,060,000 sq mi). It is bordered by Cuba, Hispaniola and Puerto Rico in the north, Central America in the west and South America in the south. This sea is also as deep as the oceans.
The Caribbean (/ ˌ k ær ɪ ˈ b iː ən, k ə ˈ r ɪ b i ən / KARR-ih-BEE-ən, kə-RIB-ee-ən, locally / ˈ k ær ɪ b iː æ n / KARR-ih-bee-an; Spanish: el Caribe; French: les Caraïbes; Dutch: de Caraïben) is a subregion of the Americas that includes the Caribbean Sea and its islands, some of which are surrounded by the Caribbean Sea ...
The Caribbean or Caribbean Area (Dutch: Cariben or Caraiben, French: Caraïbe or more commonly Antilles; Spanish: Caribe) is a region of the Americas. It includes the Caribbean Sea, its islands (more than 7,000 islands, small islands and cays, most of them surrounding the sea), and the coastal islands of north South America and east Central ...
NameArea [2] (km2)Population [3]Density (inhab./km2)26453,737204110,86011,061,88610076,42020,113,56426348,67010,219,630210The Caribbean Sea is a sea of the Atlantic Ocean in the tropics of the Western Hemisphere. It is bounded by Mexico and Central America to the west and southwest, to the north by the Greater Antilles starting with Cuba, to the east by the Lesser Antilles, and to the south by the northern coast of South America.
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