Caribbean

This article is about the group of islands. For the body of water surrounding them, see Caribbean Sea. For the Indigenous inhabitants of the Caribbean or people of Caribbean descent, see Caribbean people. For other uses, see Caribbean (disambiguation).

Caribbean

Map of the Caribbean region of the Americas
Area	239,681 km2 (92,541 sq mi)
Population	44,182,048
Population density	151.5/km2 (392/sq mi)
Ethnic groups	Afro-Caribbean Indo-Caribbean and other Asian-Caribbean White-Caribbean Mixed-Caribbean Indigenous Caribbean
Religions	73.5% Christianity 52.3% Catholicism 20.2% Protestantism 1.0% other Christian 20.6% No Religion 2.5% Folk Religions 2.1% Hinduism 1.3% others
Demonym	Caribbean, West Indian
Countries	13 Antigua and Barbuda Bahamas Barbados Cuba Dominica Dominican Republic Grenada Haiti Jamaica Saint Kitts and Nevis Saint Lucia Saint Vincent and the Grenadines Trinidad and Tobago
Time zone	UTC−05:00 to UTC−04:00
Internet TLD	Multiple
Calling codes	Multiple
Largest cities	Largest Cities Santo Domingo Port-au-Prince Port of Spain San Juan Havana Kingston Santiago de los Caballeros Santiago de Cuba Willemstad Oranjestad Punta Cana Cap-Haïtien Nassau Paramaribo Chetumal Spanish Town Porlamar Cayenne Georgetown Bridgetown San Fernando Belize City
UN M49 codes	029 – Caribbean 419 003 – North America Latin America and the Caribbean 019 – Americas 001 – World

The Caribbean is a geo-political region in the middle of the Americas centered around the Caribbean Sea in the North Atlantic Ocean, mostly overlapping with the West Indies. Bordered by North America to the north and also the west through Central America, and South America to the south, it comprises numerous islands, cays, islets, reefs, and banks.

It includes the Lucayan Archipelago, Antilles of the West Indies; the Quintana Roo islands and Belizean islands of the Yucatán Peninsula; and the Bay Islands, Miskito Cays, Archipelago of San Andrés, Providencia and Santa Catalina, Corn Islands, and San Blas Islands of Central America. It also includes the coastal areas on the continental mainland of the Americas bordering the region from the Yucatán Peninsula in North America through Central America to the Guianas in South America.

Caribbean as seen from space at night, 2012