What Is The Carribean? About The American Region
THE CARRIBEAN – In this topic, we will now know and discuss a region of North and South America called the Carribean.
As mentioned above, it is a region between North America and South America which consists of the Carribean sea, more than 700 islands, and the surrounding coasts.
It is bordered by the Gulf of Mexico, the mainland of North America, Central America and South America. It has an area of about 2.7 million kilometer squared or 1.06 million square mile. It has a papulation of about 43 million people.
The region is filled with people from different ethnic groups. Here are the following:
- African
- European
- Indian
- Spanish
- Portuguese
- Mestizo
- Mulatto
- Pardo
- Zambo
- Chinese
- Jewish
- Arab
- Amerindian
- Javanese
- Hmong
- Multiracial
The name was derived from the ethnic group Caribs from the Lesser Antilles and portions of adjacent South America during the conquest of Spaniards on the Americas.
Here are the following countries that is in the region:
- Anguilla
- Antigua and BArbuda
- Aruba
- The Bahamas
- Barbados
- Bonaire
- British Virgin Islands
- Cayman Islands
- Cuba
- Curaçao
- Dominica
- Dominican Republic
- Federal Dependencies of Venezuela
- Grenada
- Guadeloupe
- Haiti
- Jamaica
- Martinique
- Montserrat
- Navassa Island
- Nueva Esparta
- Puerto Rico
- Saba
- San Andrés and Providencia
- Saint Barthélemy
- Saint Kitts and Nevis
- Saint Lucia
- Saint Martin
- Saint Vincent and the Grenadines
- Sint Eustatius
- Sint Maarten
- Trinidad and Tobago
- Turks and Caicos Isands
- United States Virgin Islands
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