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    The document defines the Caribbean geographically as the area washed by the Caribbean Sea, often called the Caribbean Basin. The Caribbean Sea is bounded by Venezuela, Colombia, Panama, Costa Rica, Nicaragua, Honduras, Guatemala, Belize, Mexico, Cuba, Jamaica, Haiti, the Dominican Republic, and Puerto Rico. The Caribbean includes the Greater Antilles islands of Cuba, Hispaniola, Jamaica, and Puerto Rico, the Lesser Antilles islands, the ABC islands of the Netherlands Antilles, and mainland territories of Guyana, Belize, Suriname, and French Guyana.

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    The document defines the Caribbean geographically as the area washed by the Caribbean Sea, often called the Caribbean Basin. The Caribbean Sea is bounded by Venezuela, Colombia, Panama, Costa Rica, Nicaragua, Honduras, Guatemala, Belize, Mexico, Cuba, Jamaica, Haiti, the Dominican Republic, and Puerto Rico. The Caribbean includes the Greater Antilles islands of Cuba, Hispaniola, Jamaica, and Puerto Rico, the Lesser Antilles islands, the ABC islands of the Netherlands Antilles, and mainland territories of Guyana, Belize, Suriname, and French Guyana.

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    GEOGRAPHICAL DEFINITION OF THE CARIBBEAN

    This term describes the area washed by the Caribbean Sea and is often described as the Caribbean Basin. The Caribbean Sea has been defined as an area between 9 and 22 degrees North and 60 and 89 degrees West. With these coordinates the Caribbean would be bounded to the south by the coast of Venezuela, Columbia and Panama, to the west by Costa Rica, Nicaragua, Honduras, Guatemala Belize and Mexico, to the north by Cuba Jamaica and Haiti, the Dominican Republic, and Puerto Rico and to the east by the Lesser Antilles chain of island. The common link is the Caribbean Sea.

    Location of the Caribbean


    Greater Antilles: Cuba, Hispaniola (Haiti and Dominican Republic), Jamaica, Puerto Rico Lesser Antilles: Windward islands: Grenada, St. Vincent, St. Lucia, Guadeloupe, Dominica, Martinique Leeward islands: Antigua and Barbuda, St. Kitts-Nevis, Montserrat, Anguilla, Virgin islands Netherland Antilles: Aruba, Bonaire, Curacao (ABC islands); Saint Marten, Saba, St. Eustatius Mainland Territories: Guyana, Belize, Suriname, Cayenne (French Guyana) Others: Barbados, Trinidad & Tobago, Cayman Islands, Bahama Islands, Turks and Caicos Islands

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