West Indies
The West Indies is a subregion of North America, surrounded by the North Atlantic Ocean and the Caribbean Sea, which comprises 13 independent island countries and 19 dependencies in three archipelagos: the Greater Antilles, the Lesser Antilles, and the Lucayan Archipelago.[5]
This article is about the island region in the Caribbean and North Atlantic Ocean. For other uses, see West Indies (disambiguation).Area
239,681 km2 (92,541 sq mi)
151.5/km2 (392/sq mi)
Indigenous, Afro-Caribbean, Euro-Caribbean, Indo-Caribbean, Latino or Hispanic (Spanish, Portuguese, Mestizo, Mulatto, Pardo, and Zambo), Chinese, Jewish, Arab, Javanese,[3] Hmong, Multiracial
- 73.5% Christianity
- 52.3% Catholicism
- 20.2% Protestantism
- 1.0% other Christian
- 73.5% Christianity
- 20.6% no religion
- 2.5% folk religions
- 2.1% Hinduism
- 1.3% others[4]
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Anguilla (UK) -
Aruba (Netherlands) -
Bonaire (Netherlands) -
British Virgin Islands (UK) -
Cayman Islands (UK) -
Curaçao (Netherlands) -
Guadeloupe (France) -
Martinique (France) -
Montserrat (UK) -
Haiti-
Navassa Island (United States) and (Haiti) -
Puerto Rico (United States) -
Saba (Netherlands) -
Saint Barthélemy (France) -
Saint Martin (France) -
Sint Eustatius (Netherlands) -
Sint Maarten (Netherlands) -
Turks and Caicos Islands (UK) -
US Virgin Islands (United States)
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The subregion includes all the islands in the Antilles, in addition to The Bahamas and the Turks and Caicos Islands, which are in the North Atlantic Ocean. Nowadays, the term West Indies is often interchangeable with the term Caribbean, although the latter may also include coastal regions of Central and South American mainland nations, including Mexico, Belize, Panama, Colombia, Venezuela, French Guiana, Guyana, and Suriname, as well as the Atlantic island nation of Bermuda, all of which are geographically distinct from the three main island groups, but culturally related.