List of Caribbean countries and their capitals
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Our planet has a huge amount of island countries, some major and some minor but all of them important. Sometimes to group these islands we name their entire area a certain way, sometimes using the sea where they are located, this being the case of the Caribbean. To know the states that are in this zone, in this lesson from a PROFESSOR we are going to talk about the Caribbean countries and their capitals.
Index
- The Caribbean and island groups
- List with the countries and capitals of the Caribbean
- Dependencies and capitals of the Caribbean
The Caribbean and island groups.
The Caribbean is the name by which the Caribbean Sea, all the islands that are located in it and the coasts that surround the sea. Therefore we can say that the countries that are part of the Caribbean are all those islands that live all along this sea, but also all those countries whose coasts are bathed by Caribbean water, such as certain South American or Central American countries.
Its location is north of South America, east of Central America, and southeast of North America. For all this it is a region of great American influence, there are many countries in these regions that we call Caribbean because their coasts are bathed by the Caribbean Sea.
Regarding its expansion, we can differentiate two data, those that speak of its land surface, and those that include the entire area that we call the Caribbean. Being the land surface of 235,996 km2 and the surface counting everything we call the Caribbean of 2,754,000 km2. This whole area is populated by 43,888,319 inhabitants, which gives us approximately 195 inhabitants per km2. Some of the most populated cities in this area are Santo Domingo, Caracas and San Juan.
Within the vast space that is the Caribbean, we can speak of a series of island groups, some groups of islands that receive their own name, these being the following:
- Greater Antilles: A group of islands in the northern Caribbean, which is made up of some of the largest islands in the entire Caribbean. These islands are Cuba, Hispaniola, Jamaica and Puerto Rico.
- Lesser Antilles: They are a group of small islands that form an arc to the south of the Greater Antilles. These islands are Antigua and Barbuda, Barbados, Dominica, Grenada, Saint Kitts and Nevis, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Saint Lucia, and Trinidad and Tobago.
- Bahamas: A set of islands that make up the state of the Bahamas.
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List with the countries and capitals of the Caribbean.
When talking about the different countries and capitals of the Caribbean, we must bear in mind that countries are states with full autonomy, which do not depend on a different state. The Caribbean is an area with many dependencies, since there are still echoes of the colonial past of the area, being a region where the states Europeans had many colonies, due to the islands possessing a number of very valuable resources a few centuries ago, such as the sugar. Many of the islands have not become fully independent of the European states, which is why they are currently called dependencies.
In this section we are not going to talk about dependencies, but about what we call sovereign states, being countries that have total autonomy. To talk about them we are going to divide them into two parts, dividing them into those countries that are islands, and all those that are continental states but that have islands or coasts bathed by the Sea Caribbean.
Caribbean countries that are islands
To talk about the countries and their capitals, we are going to follow the method of previous lessons, placing the name of the country on the left and the name of the current official capital on the right. Therefore, the island countries of the Caribbean and their capitals are the following:
- Antigua and Barbuda: Saint John's.
- Bahamas: Nassau.
- Barbados: Bridgetown.
- Cuba: Havana.
- Dominica: Roseau.
- Granada: Saint George.
- Haiti: Port au Prince.
- Jamaica: Kingston.
- Dominican Republic: Santo Domingo.
- Saint Kitts and Nevis: Basseterre.
- Saint Vincent and the Grenadines: Kingstown.
- Saint Lucia: Castries.
- Trinidad and Tobago: Port of Spain.
Caribbean countries that are not islands
On the other hand, there are the countries that are part of the Caribbean although they are not islands, because their coasts are bathed by the Caribbean Sea. The continental countries that belong to the Caribbean are the following:
- Mexico: Mexico City.
- Belize: Belmopan.
- Colombia Bogota.
- Costa Rica: San José.
- Guatemala: Guatemala City.
- Guyana: Georgetown.
- Honduras: Tegucigalpa.
- Panama: Panama City.
- Venezuela Caracas.
- Suriname: Paramaribo.
- El Salvador: San Salvador.
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Dependencies and capitals of the Caribbean.
To conclude this lesson on the Caribbean countries and their capitals, we must talk about the different dependencies that exist in the Caribbean area. Dependencies are countries that do not have full autonomy, controlling part of the government and economy of their own region, but being dependent on another state, generally a European country. For all this they are considered countries, but at the same time they are part of another state, which is generally located a long way away.
The Caribbean is an area with a huge amount of dependencies, and therefore it is important to mention them together with their capitals. Next, we are going to list the dependencies of the Caribbean, placing their name on the left, their capital on the right, and in parentheses the state on which they are dependent. The Caribbean dependencies at present are the following:
- Anguilla: The Valley (UK)
- Aruba: Oranjestad (Netherlands)
- British Virgin Islands: Road Town (UK)
- Navaza Island: Without capital (United States)
- Cayman Islands: George Town (UK)
- Saba Island: The Bottom (Netherlands)
- Curaçao: Willemstad (Netherlands)
- Bonaire: Kralendijk (Netherlands)
- Turks and Caicos Islands: Cockburn Town (UK)
- Sint Maarten: Philipsburg (The Netherlands)
- Saint Eustatius: Oranjestad (Netherlands)
- Saint Martin: Marigot (France)
- Saint Bartholomew: Gustavia (France)
- United States Virgin Islands: Charlotte Amalie (United States)
- Martinique: Fort-de-France (France)
- Montserrat: Plymouth and Brades (UK)
- French Guiana: Cayenne (France)
- Puerto Rico: San Juan (United States)
- Guadeloupe: Basse-Terre (France)
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