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The Caribbean archipelago encompasses more than 7,000 individual islands in an approximately 1-million-square-mile region. There are 13 sovereign island nations and 12 dependent territories, with close political ties throughout the region to Europe and the United States.
What area is considered the Caribbean?
The boundary nations of the Caribbean Sea. In geographical terms the Caribbean area includes the Caribbean Sea and all of the islands located to the southeast of the Gulf of Mexico, east of Central America and Mexico, and to the north of South America.There are also thousands of islands that are part of the island countries of the broadly defined Caribbean region. The boundary nations of the Caribbean Sea are
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Anguilla (21 islands)
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Antigua and Barbuda (37 islands)
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Aruba (4 islands)
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Bahamas, The (501 islands) approximately
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Barbados used to have 3 islands (but Pelican Island is now absorbed into Barbados through land reclamation, 1956–1961)
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Belize (plenty)
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British Virgin Islands (43 islands)
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Cayman Islands (12 islands)
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Cuba (23 islands)
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Dominica (7 islands)
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Dominican Republic (2 islands)
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Grenada (39 islands)
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Guadeloupe (38 islands)
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Haiti (12 islands)
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Honduras (6 islands)
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Jamaica (26 islands)
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Martinique (50 islands)
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Montserrat (3 islands)
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Netherlands Antilles (25 islands, this includes half of Saint Martin)
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Puerto Rico (142 islands )
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Saint Barthélemy (13 islands )
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Saint Kitts-and-Nevis (20 islands)
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Saint Lucia (17 islands) )
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Saint Martin (8 islands)
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Saint Vincent-and-the-Grenadines (39 islands)
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Trinidad-and-Tobago (21 islands)
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Turks-and-Caicos Islands (58 islands)
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United States Virgin Islands (81 islands)
The Power & Economic Potential
of the Caribbean Diaspora
The Caribbean diaspora is a sizeable, well-educated, and affluent demographic whose large majority is interested in investing in their own countries of origin. Due to the common heritage and strong connections across the region, they overwhelmingly take a regional approach to the Caribbean, rather than a nationalistic one. Supported by the right incentives and policies, diaspora members could play an even larger role in contributing to the region’s development.
These are some of the findings of a new study, “Diaspora Investing: The Business and Investment Interests of the Caribbean abroad”, by infoDev, a global innovation program in the World Bank. The assessment brings together knowledge and data gathered from over 850 self-identified members of the Caribbean diaspora, and sheds light on their characteristics and investment interests.
Diaspora
A diaspora is a large group of people with a similar heritage or homeland who have since moved out/away (spread) from original country to other places all over the world, yet who maintain strong cultural and connective links with the country of origin.The term diaspora comes from an ancient Greek word meaning "to scatter about." And that's exactly what the people of a diaspora do — they scatter from their homeland to places across the globe, spreading their culture as they go. The Bible refers to the Diaspora of Jews exiled from Israel by the Babylonians. But the word is now also used more generally to describe any large migration of refugees, language, or culture.
