Caribbean Statistics

The Caribbean is the 2,500,000 sq. km (965,000 sq mi) of the Caribbean Sea and the countries in it. The nations making up the region have a surface area is 90,000 square miles. This region is bounded by the Greater Antilles in the north, by the Lesser Antilles in the east, by the coasts of Venezuela, Columbia and Panama in the south and by the eastern coasts of Costa Rica, Nicaragua, Honduras, Guatemala, Belize and the Mexican Yucatan peninsula in the west. By this definition, countries such as the Bahamas and the Turks & Caicos Islands are not in the Caribbean as they are in the Atlantic. They are, however, considered part of the Caribbean for reasons of similar history and culture. There are over 30 million people in the Caribbean.