This is a outline of topics related to the Caribbean region.
Links to outlines and indexes of countries in the Caribbean region are also provided.
The Caribbean (/ˌkærɪˈbiːən, kəˈrɪbiən/, locally /ˈkærɪbiæn/;[1] Spanish: Caribe; French: Caraïbes; Haitian Creole: Karayib; also Antillean Creole: Kawayib; Dutch: Caraïben; Papiamento: Karibe) is a region of the Americas that comprises the Caribbean Sea, its surrounding coasts, and its islands (some of which lie within the Caribbean Sea[2] and some of which lie on the edge of the Caribbean Sea where it borders the North Atlantic Ocean).
[3] The region lies southeast of the Gulf of Mexico and of the North American mainland, east of Central America, and north of South America.
History of the Caribbean and West Indies: Historic topics: Geography and Geology Geographic and geologic topics: Politics of the Caribbean region: Economy of the Caribbean: Demographics of the Caribbean Culture of the Caribbean: Indigenous peoples: Other general topics about or relating to the Caribbean not included above: Continental nations surrounding the Caribbean Sea include: ^These three form the SSS islands that with the ABC islands comprise the Dutch Caribbean, of which *the BES islands are not direct Kingdom constituents but subsumed with the country of the Netherlands.