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  2. Caribbean - Wikipedia

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    The Caribbean (/ ˌ k ær ɪ ˈ b iː ən, k ə ˈ r ɪ b i ən / KARR-ib-EE-ən, kə-RIB-ee-ən, locally / ˈ k ær ɪ b i æ n / KARR-ib-ee-an; [4] Spanish: el Caribe; French: les Caraïbes; Dutch: de Caraïben), is a subregion in the middle of the Americas centered around the Caribbean Sea in the North Atlantic Ocean.

  3. Caribbean Sea - Wikipedia

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    The Caribbean is home to about 9% of the world's coral reefs, covering about 50,000 km 2 (19,000 sq mi), most of which are located off the Caribbean Islands and the Central American coast. [14] Among them, the Belize Barrier Reef stands out, with an area of 963 km 2 (372 sq mi), which was declared a World Heritage Site in 1996.

  4. West Indies - Wikipedia

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    Caribbean Basin countries The subduction of the South American Plate and part of the North American Plate beneath the Caribbean Plate produces both the Puerto Rico Trench, the deepest part of the Atlantic Ocean, as well as the active volcanoes of the Lesser Antilles (bottom left of the image, south of the Virgin Islands)

  5. Borders of the oceans - Wikipedia

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    Maps exhibiting the world's oceanic waters. A continuous body of water encircling Earth, the World/Global Ocean is divided into a number of principal areas. Five oceanic divisions are usually recognized: Pacific, Atlantic, Indian, Arctic, and Southern/Antarctic; the last two listed are sometimes consolidated into the first three.

  6. List of political and geographic borders - Wikipedia

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    Below are separate lists of countries and dependencies with their land boundaries, and lists of which countries and dependencies border oceans and major seas.The first short section describes the borders or edges of continents and oceans/major seas.

  7. List of sovereign states and dependent territories in the ...

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    This is a list of sovereign states and dependent territories in the Caribbean. In a general sense, the Caribbean can be taken to mean all the nations in and around the Caribbean Sea that lie within an area that stretches from The Bahamas in the north to Guyana in the south, and Suriname in the east to Belize in the west in a general sense. This ...

  8. Caribbean plate - Wikipedia

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    The Caribbean plate is a mostly oceanic tectonic plate underlying Central America and the Caribbean Sea off the northern coast of South America. Roughly 3.2 million square kilometres (1.2 million square miles) in area, the Caribbean plate borders the North American plate, the South American plate, the Nazca plate and the Cocos plate.

  9. List of Caribbean islands - Wikipedia

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    The Colorados Archipelago is located off the north-western coast. The following islands are some of the major islands in the island country Cuba : [ 10 ] Cuba (largest island in the Caribbean 104,556 km 2 (40,369 sq mi), 21°56′02″N 78°45′15″W  /  21.93384°N 78.75425°W  / 21.93384; -78.75425  ( Island