Caribbean Geographic Location

Islands of the Caribbean region includes the Windward, Leeward and Caricom members states.  The map shows the islands and where they are located in the Caribbean sea. Other Caribbean countries and mainland territories bordering the Caribbean sea coast of South America are not fully highlighted on the map. They include Belize, Venezuela, Suriname, Guyana and French-Guyana.

The Greater Antilles consist of four large islands: Puerto Rico, Hispaniola (containing Haiti and the Dominican Republic), Cuba, and Jamaica. While there is evidence of volcanism in the Greater Antilles, they are, for the most part, a submerged mountain range jutting westward into the Caribbean for over a thousand miles. To the north of Cuba and Hispaniola are the low-lying Bahamian Islands. The whole of that area and the eastern coast of Venezuela are collectively known as the Cultural cradel of the Caribbean.