The Caribbean
Two land borders run through the islands filed here. One follows the length of Hispaniola between Haiti and the Dominican Republic; the other divides an island of about 87 square kilometres between a French collectivity and a constituent country of the Kingdom of the Netherlands. Everywhere else the members meet across open water, and thirteen of them are sovereign states.
28 countries
- Anguilla
- Antigua and Barbuda
- Aruba
- BahamasThe Bahamas
- Barbados
- BonaireCaribbean Netherlands
- British Virgin Islands
- Cayman Islands
- Cuba
- Curaçao
- Dominica
- Dominican RepublicRepública Dominicana
- Grenada
- Guadeloupe
- HaitiHaïti
- Jamaica
- Martinique
- Montserrat
- Puerto Rico
- Saint BarthélemySaint-Barthélemy
- Saint Kitts and Nevis
- Saint Lucia
- Saint MartinSaint-Martin
- Saint Vincent and the Grenadines
- Sint Maarten
- Trinidad and Tobago
- Turks and Caicos Islands
- U.S. Virgin IslandsUnited States Virgin Islands
Common questions
Questions about Caribbean
How many countries are in the Caribbean?
The catalogue keeps 28 records under the region. Thirteen are sovereign states: Antigua and Barbuda, the Bahamas, Barbados, Cuba, Dominica, the Dominican Republic, Grenada, Haiti, Jamaica, Saint Kitts and Nevis, Saint Lucia, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, and Trinidad and Tobago. The rest are administered from London, Paris, The Hague or Washington, on terms that differ from one another even within the same group.
Are the Bahamas and the Turks and Caicos Islands in the Caribbean?
Both lie in the Atlantic, north of the Caribbean Sea, and both are filed under the Caribbean by the M49 scheme of the UN Statistics Division, which this catalogue follows. The Bahamas is also a full member of CARICOM and the Turks and Caicos Islands an associate member. The physical reading and the institutional reading disagree, and the disagreement is the answer rather than a fault in it.
Which Caribbean countries share a currency?
Eight use the Eastern Caribbean dollar: Anguilla, Antigua and Barbuda, Dominica, Grenada, Montserrat, Saint Kitts and Nevis, Saint Lucia, and Saint Vincent and the Grenadines. It has been pegged at 2.70 to the United States dollar since 7 July 1976. Five use the United States dollar itself and four the euro.
Is Belize in the Caribbean?
Not in this catalogue, which files Belize under Central America and follows the M49 scheme in doing so. Belize is a full member of CARICOM alongside Guyana and Suriname, both of them on the South American mainland, so the treaty roster and the regional grouping take in different places. Montserrat runs the other way: a British territory holding full CARICOM membership.