Caribbean (Caribbean Islands, formerly known as Western India) - the division between the continents of the Americas. The name comes from the Indians called the Caribbean (Carib, Caraïbes), who once lived in the Caribbean part defined today as the Lesser Antilles.The knowledge about the habits of the Caribbean (and thus the name) became popular in the Europe of information printed on second voyage of Columbus.Caribbean include geographically: Antilles, the Bahamas, the Cayman Islands and some islands in the Caribbean Sea.The Caribbean island includes all states and dependent territories of Central America: Antigua and Barbuda, Bahamas, Barbados, Dominica, Dominican Republic, Grenada, Haiti, Jamaica, Cuba, Saint Kitts and Nevis, Saint Lucia, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Trinidad and Tobago, Anguilla, Netherlands Antilles, Aruba, British Virgin Islands, Guadeloupe, Cayman Islands, Martinique, Montserrat, Navassa Island, Puerto Rico, Saint-Barthélemy, Saint-Martin, Turks and Caicos Islands, U.S. Virgin Islands.In total, they cover an area 255 thousand. km ², with a population of more than 40 million people.
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