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Big Pine Key: 25.8 10 United States ( Florida) 93 Cubagua: 24 - Venezuela ( Nueva Esparta) 94 Ragged Island: 23 9 Bahamas: 95 South Caicos: 21.2 8 Turks and Caicos Islands: 96 Saint Barthélemy: 21 8 Saint Barthélemy: 97 Sint Eustatius: 21 8.1 Sint Eustatius: 98 Virgin Gorda: 21 8 British Virgin Islands: 99 Long Cay: 21 8 Bahamas: 100 La ...
The Caribbean Sea. Most of the Caribbean countries are islands in the Caribbean Sea, with only a few in inland lakes. The largest islands include Cuba, Hispaniola, Jamaica and Puerto Rico. Some of the smaller islands are referred to as a rock or reef. Islands are listed in alphabetical order by sovereign state.
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. This ...
The air temperature is warm year round, in the 70s, 80s and 90s, and only varies from winter to summer about 2–5 degrees on the southern islands and about a 10–20 degrees difference on the northern islands of the Caribbean. The northern islands, like the Bahamas, Cuba, Puerto Rico and the Dominican Republic, may be influenced by continental ...
The Northern Territory Legislative Council was the partly elected governing body from 1947 until its replacement by the fully elected Northern Territory Legislative Assembly in 1974. The total enrolment for the 1947 election was 4,443. The Northern Territory was split into five electorates: Darwin, Alice Springs, Tennant Creek, Batchelor, and ...
The landmass that makes up what is the modern-day Bahamas, lies at the northern part of the Greater Antilles region and was believed to have been formed 200 million years ago when they began to separate from the supercontinent Pangaea. The Pleistocene Ice Age around 3 million years ago, had a profound impact on the archipelago's formation.
Anguilla (/ æ ŋ ˈ ɡ w ɪ l ə / ang-GWIL-ə) is a British Overseas Territory in the Caribbean. [6] It is one of the most northerly of the Leeward Islands in the Lesser Antilles, lying east of Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands and directly north of Saint Martin. [7]
Puerto Rico has the largest Jewish community in the Caribbean, at roughly 3,000, [268] and is the only Caribbean island where Conservative, Reform and Orthodox Jewish movements are all represented. [269] [270] The island's first synagogue, Sha'are Zedeck, was established in 1952 by American Jews. [271] [272] [269]