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Coordinates: 15°N 75°W. The Caribbean Sea [1] 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.
- 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
Map all coordinates using OpenStreetMap. The Caribbean Sea....
- Mesoamerican Barrier Reef
Map of the Caribbean (Colombian islands in the western Caribbean Sea not shown) The word "Caribbean" has multiple uses. Its principal ones are geographical and political. The Caribbean can also be expanded to include territories with strong cultural and historical connections to Africa, slavery, European colonisation and the plantation system.
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Map all coordinates using OpenStreetMap. The Caribbean Sea. Almost all of the Caribbean islands are in the Caribbean Sea, with only a few in inland lakes. The largest islands include Cuba, Hispaniola, Jamaica, Puerto Rico, North Andros, and Trinidad. Some of the smaller islands are referred to as a rock or reef.
The Caribbean Sea is one of the largest seas on Earth and has an area of about 2,754,000 km2 (1,063,000 sq mi). The sea's deepest point is the Cayman Trough, between the Cayman Islands and Jamaica, at 7,686 m (25,217 ft) below sea level.
Weddell Sea – 2.8 million km 2; Caribbean Sea – 2.754 million km 2; Mediterranean Sea – 2.510 million km 2; Gulf of Guinea – 2.35 million km 2; Tasman Sea – 2.3 million km 2; Bay of Bengal – 2.172 million km 2; Bering Sea – 2 million km 2; Sea of Okhotsk – 1.583 million km 2; Gulf of Mexico – 1.550 million km 2; Gulf of Alaska ...
Caribbean Map - North America. North America. 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 North and South America. Map. Directions. Satellite. Photo Map. Wikivoyage. Wikipedia. Photo: Wikimedia, CC0.
Caribbean. Map of the Caribbean. 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 ...
