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Dominica is a beneficiary of the Caribbean Basin Initiative (CBI) that grants duty-free entry into the United States for many goods. Dominica also belongs to the predominantly English-speaking Caribbean Community (CARICOM), the CARICOM Single Market and Economy (CSME), and the Organisation of Eastern Caribbean States (OECS).
The region includes Canada, the Caribbean, Saint Pierre and Miquelon, Central America, Greenland, Mexico, and the United States. Canada is the largest country in North America and the Western Hemisphere. Saint Kitts and Nevis is the smallest country in North America overall, while El Salvador is the smallest country on the mainland.
This is a list of sovereign states and dependent territories in the Caribbean. In a general sense, the Caribbean can be taken to mean all the nations in and around the Caribbean Sea that lie within an area that stretches from The Bahamas in the north to Guyana in the south, and Suriname in the east to Belize in the west in a general sense.
United States dollar: Unincorporated organized territory and Commonwealth of the United States: Turks and Caicos Islands TCA English: Turks and Caicos Islands: Cockburn Town: 45,114 430 km 2 (166 sq mi) United States dollar United Kingdom: British Overseas Territory: United States Virgin Islands Virgin Islands of the United States VIR
According to a popular West Indian belief, Dominica is the only New World territory that Columbus would still recognize. [1] Dominica is the largest and most northerly of the Windward Islands. The island faces the Atlantic Ocean to the east and the Caribbean Sea to the west. [1]
Territories of the United States are sub-national administrative divisions and dependent territories overseen by the federal government of the United States. The American territories differ from the U.S. states and Indian reservations in that they are not sovereign entities .
Each US territory elects one member of the House of Representatives, however, that member does not have voting powers. The territories have no representation in the Senate.
Dominica's pre-Columbian name was Wai'tu kubuli, which means "Tall is her body". [2] The Carib Territory was established for the indigenous people of the island. Because the island lies between two French overseas departments , Guadeloupe to the north and Martinique to the south, and because it was colonized by France for a time, it is ...