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The West Indies is a North American subregion, 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, including the English-speaking countries and territories in the wider ...
When the Central and South American nations that border the Caribbean Sea (many of which have a cultural and linguistic heritage that sets their history out of the scope of the region) are excluded, the Caribbean covers the same geographical area as the West Indies, containing a total of 16 sovereign states (general sense) and 12 island ...
This list of Caribbean countries and dependencies by population is sorted by the mid-year normalized demographic projections from the United Nations, [1] the change from the previous year, and the most recent official figure.
With an area of 207,411 square kilometres (80,082 sq mi), not counting the Virgin Islands, the Greater Antilles constitute nearly 90% of the land mass of the entire West Indies, [4] as well as over 90% of its population.
The West Indies cricket team, nicknamed The Windies, [10] is a men's cricket team representing the West Indies—a group of mainly English-speaking countries and territories in the Caribbean region—and administered by Cricket West Indies. The players on this composite team are selected from a chain of fifteen Caribbean nation-states and ...
The Caribbean with West Indies Federation members in red. The short-lived federation was made up of British West Indies colonies from 1958–62.. Between 1958 and 1962, there was a short-lived federation between several English-speaking Caribbean countries, called the West Indies Federation, which consisted of all the island nations (except the Bahamas), and the territories (excluding Bermuda ...
Country or Countries 86 Little Exuma: 29 11 Bahamas: 87 West Caicos: 28 11 Turks and Caicos Islands: 88 Beata Island: 27 10 Dominican Republic: 89 San Andrés: 26 10 Colombia ( San Andrés y Providencia) 90 Little Cayman: 26 10 Cayman Islands: 91 Cayo Cruz: 26 10 Cuba: 92 Big Pine Key: 25.8 10 United States ( Florida) 93 Cubagua: 24 -
Test International- West Indies made their debut as a Test playing nation in 1976 against Australia. In past time, West Indies women's rarely play test and won it. One Day International-West Indies played their first ODI International in 1979 against England. They were not able to participate in first five edition of Women's Cricket World Cup.