Caribbean region
Tropical island chain
The Caribbean region is the area encompassing the Caribbean Sea and its islands, along with the surrounding coastal territories.
It includes island nations like Jamaica, Cuba, Haiti, and Trinidad, plus mainland areas with Caribbean coastlines.
The term groups these places by geography, culture, and history—particularly the shared legacy of colonialism and the plantation economy.
Tourism drives much of the Caribbean region's economy.
- rumMolasses-based liquor
- reggaeJamaican offbeat music style
- CreoleFused language, stabilized
- hurricanesPowerful tropical rotating windstorms
- steelpanTuned percussion from barrels
tourism · slavery · calypso · Rastafarianism · colonization · sugarcane · sugar trade · archipelago · islands · carnival · sea turtles · endemic species · plantations · biodiversity hotspots · independence · conch · coconut water · coral reefs
Caribbean regionArctic
Earth's northernmost zone
Antarctic · polar regions · Siberia · subarctic · tundra
Caribbean regionCentral Asia
Continental interior between Russia and Iran
Sahara Desert · heartland · Gobi Desert · Great Plains · Tibetan Plateau