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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 ({{IPAc-en|ˌ|k|ær|ɪ|ˈ|b|iː|ə|n|,_|k|ə|ˈ|r|ɪ|b|i|ə|n}}, {{IPAc-en|local|ˈ|k|ær|ɪ|b|i|æ|n}};<ref name=dce>{{cite book|last1=Allsopp|first1=Richard |last2=Allsopp|first2=Jeannette |title=Dictionary of Caribbean English Usage|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=PmvSk13sIc0C&q=%22analogy+of+European%22|year=2003|publisher=University of the West Indies Press|isbn=978-976-640-145-0|page=136–}}</ref> {{lang-es|Caribe}}; {{lang-fr|Caraïbes}}<!-- In French, ''Caraïbes'' are plural. -->; {{lang-ht|Karayib}}; also {{lang-gcf|label=[[Social:Antillean Creole|Antillean Creole]]|Kawayib}}; {{lang-nl|Caraïben}}; Papiamento: {{Lang|PAP|Karibe}}) is a region of the [[Earth:Americas|Americas]] that comprises the Caribbean Sea, its surrounding coasts, and its islands (some of which lie within the Caribbean Sea<ref>{{Cite book|pages= 483–528|title= A Population History of North America|publisher = Cambridge University Press|date= 2000|isbn =978-0-521-49666-7|last=Engerman|first=Stanley L.|editor-last=Haines|editor-first=Michael R.|chapter=A Population History of the Caribbean|oclc=41118518|editor-last2=Steckel|editor-first2=Richard Hall }}</ref> and some of which lie on the edge of the Caribbean Sea where it borders the North Atlantic Ocean).<ref>{{Cite book|title=Understanding the contemporary Caribbean|publisher=Lynne Rienner|year=2003|isbn=978-1588266637|editor-last=Hillman|editor-first=Richard S.|location=London, UK|oclc=300280211|editor-last2=D'Agostino|editor-first2=Thomas J.}}</ref> The region lies southeast of the Gulf of Mexico and of the North American mainland, east of Central America, and north of [[Earth:South America|South America]].

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==Caribbean topic outline==

===History===
History of the Caribbean and [[Place:West Indies|West Indies]]:
* Spanish Caribbean (1492–1898)
* Piracy in the Caribbean (1500s–1830)
* Dutch Caribbean (1554–1863)
* British Caribbean (1586–1834)
* French Caribbean (1625–1817)
* Baltic-German Caribbean (1654-1689)
* Danish Caribbean (1672–1917)
* German Caribbean (1685-1693)
* Swedish Caribbean (1784–1878)
* History of the British West Indies
* Amelioration Act 1798
* Bishoprics, etc., in West Indies Act 1842
* British West Indian labour unrest of 1934–1939
* [[Engineering:Battle of the Caribbean|Battle of the Caribbean]] (1941-1945, World War II)

Historic topics:
* Afro-Caribbean
* Atlantic triangular slave-trade
* Caribbean Court of Justice
* Emancipation of the British West Indies
** Enslavement
* Energy and Climate Partnership of the Americas
* German interest in the Caribbean
* Good Neighbor policy
* Impact of hurricanes on Caribbean history
* [[Medicine:Influx of disease in the Caribbean|Influx of diseases]]
** Malaria
** COVID-19
* Monroe Doctrine
* Partnership for Prosperity and Security in the Caribbean
* [[Social:Pre-Columbian trans-oceanic contact theories|Pre-Columbian trans-oceanic contact theories]]
* Territorial evolution
* Third Border Initiative
* West Indian Brigade
* West India Regiment

===Geography and Geology===
Geography and Geology
* Antilles
** Greater Antilles
** Lesser Antilles
*** Leeward Islands
*** British Leeward Islands
*** Leeward Antilles
*** Windward Islands
* Caribbean Basin
* Caribbean Lowlands
* [[Earth:Caribbean Plate|Caribbean Plate]]
* Caribbean Sea
* [[Place:Caribbean South America|Caribbean South America]]
* Gulf of Honduras
* [[Finance:Latin America and the Caribbean|Latin America and the Caribbean]]
* Southern Caribbean
* [[Place:Western Caribbean zone|Western Caribbean zone]]

Geographic and geologic topics:
* Bioregion
**[[Biology:Caribbean Initiative|Caribbean Initiative]]
** Mammals
*** [[Biology:Caribbean monk seal|Caribbean monk seal]]
*** List of bats of the Caribbean by island
*** List of eulipotyphlans of the Caribbean
*** Pilosans of the Caribbean
*** Rodents of the Caribbean
** Sealife
*** Caribbean hermit crab
*** [[Biology:Aliger gigas|Caribbean Queen Conch]]
*** [[Biology:Caribbean reef octopus|Caribbean reef octopus]]
*** [[Biology:Caribbean reef shark|Caribbean reef shark]]
*** [[Biology:Caribbean sculptured sea catfish|Caribbean sculptured sea catfish]]
*** [[Biology:West Indian manatee|West Indian manatee]]
** [[Biology:List of trees of the Caribbean|Trees]]
*** [[Biology:Caribbean pine|Caribbean pine]]
* [[Earth:Caribbean large igneous province|Caribbean large igneous province]]
* Earthquakes
* [[Earth:Extreme points of the Caribbean|Extreme points]]
* Islands (by area)
* Metropolitan areas
* Mountains
* Rivers
* Ultras
* Sovereign states
* Dependent territories
* World Heritage Sites

===Politics===
Politics of the Caribbean region:
* Afro-Caribbean leftism
* Association of Caribbean States
* [[Organization:Caribbean Community|Caribbean Community]]
* Caribbean Legion
* [[Finance:CARIFORUM|CARIFORUM]]
* Coat of arms of the British Windward Islands
* Foreign relations
** Canada–Caribbean relations
** Caribbean–China relations
* [[Organization:Organisation of African, Caribbean and Pacific States|Organisation of African, Caribbean and Pacific States]]
* [[Organization:Organisation of Eastern Caribbean States|Organisation of Eastern Caribbean States]]
* Pan-Caribbean Congress
* [[Place:West Indies Federation|West Indies Federation]]
**West Indies Associated States
** Governor-General of the West Indies Federation
**West Indies Democratic Labour Party
**Democratic Labour Party (West Indies Federation)
**West Indies Federal Labour Party

===Economy===
Economy of the Caribbean:
* Airlines
** Caribbean Airline Pilots Association
* Airports
* Anchor coinage
* Caribbean Basin Trade and Partnership Act
* Caribbean Basin Initiative
* Caribbean Basin Trade and Partnership Act
* Caribbean Basin Trade Partnership Act
* Caribbean Regional Maritime Agreement
* Currencies of the British West Indies
** British West Indies dollar
* Caribbean Broadcasting Corporation (Barbados)
* Caribbean Cinemas 
* Caribbean Development Bank
* Caribbean Free Trade Association
* Central banks and currencies
* Citrus industry
* Companies
* Fishing industry
* Grog
* [[Organization:Latin American and Caribbean Economic Association|Latin American and Caribbean Economic Association]]
* Hotels in the Caribbean
*Postage stamps and postal history of the Leeward Islands
* Rum producers
* Stock exchanges in the Americas
** Eastern Caribbean Securities Exchange
* Sugar plantations
** Cuban sugar economy
** Sugar production in the Danish West Indies
* Tourism
** Caribbean Tourism Organization

===Demographics===
Demographics of the Caribbean
* Languages
**Dutch
**English
**French
**[[Social:Caribbean Hindustani|Hindustani]]
**Spanish
**Other
**Pre-Arawakan
* List of populated places in the Caribbean
* Countries by population

===Culture===
Culture of the Caribbean:
* Actors
* Architecture
** Antonin Nechodoma (Prairie style)
* Art
** Art schools
** The Caribbean Artists Movement
** Caribbean Festival of Arts
** English Caribbean arts
** Dutch Caribbean arts
** French Caribbean arts
** Spanish-Caribbean Arts
** Artists
* Caribbean people
** Afro-Caribbean people
** Asian Caribbean
** British African-Caribbean people
** British Indo-Caribbean people
** Caribbean Brazilians
** Caribbean region of Colombia
** Creole people of the Caribbean
** Eastern Caribbean people
** Indo-Caribbean
** West Indian
** White Caribbean
** Women in the Caribbean
* Carnivals
*Crafts
** Paper craft
** [[Engineering:Periagua|Periagua]] (dugout)
* Cuisine
** Beer
** Jerk (cooking)
** Pelau
** Rice and peas
** [[Chemistry:Rum|Rum]]
** Rum cake
* Dancers
** Ring shout
* Feminism in the Caribbean
** [[Organization:Caribbean Association for Feminist Research and Action|Caribbean Association for Feminist Research and Action]]
* Film
** Cinema of the Caribbean
** List of Caribbean films
* Literature
** Caribbean folklore
** Caribbean Voices
** Small Axe Project
* Music
** Calypso music
** Concert Halls
** Folk music
** Lesser Antilles music
** Musicians
* Painting
* Picong (banter)
* Poetry
* Quadrille dress
* Scout Jamboree
* Sculptors
* Sport 
** British West Indies at the 1960 Summer Olympics
** Caribbean Football Union
** Central American and Caribbean Games
** Central American and Caribbean Junior Championships in Athletics
** Cricket in the West Indies
** West Indian cricket team
** West Indies women's cricket team
** West Indies national football team
** West Indies national rugby league team
* Stadiums
* Television stations
** Caribbean's Next Top Model
** ESPN Caribbean
** Tempo Networks
* Theatre
* Universities and educational associations
** Association of Caribbean University, Research and Institutional Libraries
** American University of the Caribbean (Sint Maarten)
** [[Organization:Caribbean Philosophical Association|Caribbean Philosophical Association]]
** Caribbean University (Puerto Rico)
** [[Organization:International University of the Caribbean|International University of the Caribbean]]
** Medical schools
*** Caribbean Medical University
** [[Organization:University of the Southern Caribbean|University of the Southern Caribbean]] (Trinidad and Tobago)
** [[Organization:University of the West Indies|University of the West Indies]]

===Indigenous peoples of the Caribbean===
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Indigenous peoples:
* List of Caribbean indigenous peoples
* Taíno (Indigenous peoples of the Bahamas)
** List of Taínos
** Taino archaeology
* Arawak
** [[Social:Arawakan languages|Arawakan languages]]
* Kalinago (Carib people)
* Indigenous Caribbean Visual Arts
* Indigenous Caribbean people
* Indigenous peoples of the Americas
* Indigenous Names of the Eastern Caribbean islands
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===Related topics===
Other general topics about or relating to the Caribbean not included above:
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*[[Place:Caribbean South America|Caribbean South America]] (Colombia,  Venezuela, and the Guiannas)
*Bocas del Toro Creole (Panama)
*[[History:European colonization of the Americas|European colonization of the Americas]]
*Exploration by Christopher Columbus
*[[History:First wave of European colonization|First wave of European colonization]]
*History of colonialism
*Miskito Coastal Creole (Nicaraugua)
*San Andrés-Providencia Creole (Colombia)
*Territories of the United States (including those in the Caribbean)
*United Nations Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean
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===Countries and territories in the Caribbean region===
{| class="wikitable sortable" style="border-spacing: 2px"
|+ [[Earth:Island country|Island nations]] of the Caribbean
|- style="vertical-align: top;"
!Country/territory
!Outline
!Index
|-
|{{AIA}}
|[[Biology:Outline of Anguilla|Outline of Anguilla]]
|Index of Anguilla-related articles
|-
|{{ATG}}
|[[Biology:Outline of Antigua and Barbuda|Outline of Antigua and Barbuda]]
|Index of Antigua and Barbuda–related articles
|-
|{{ABW}}
|[[Biology:Outline of Aruba|Outline of Aruba]]
|Index of Aruba-related articles
|-
|{{BHS}}
|[[Biology:Outline of the Bahamas|Outline of the Bahamas]]
|Index of the Bahamas-related articles
|-
|{{BRB}}
|[[Biology:Outline of Barbados|Outline of Barbados]]
|Index of Barbados-related articles
|-
|{{BLZ}}
|[[Biology:Outline of Belize|Outline of Belize]]
|Index of Belize-related articles
|-
|{{BES}} Bonaire
|
|
|-
|Outline of British Virgin Islands
|Index of British Virgin Islands-related articles
|-
|{{CAY}}
|Outline of Cayman Islands
|Index of Cayman Islands–related articles
|-
|{{CUB}}
|[[Biology:Outline of Cuba|Outline of Cuba]]
|Index of Cuba-related articles
|-
|Outline of Curaçao
|Index of Curaçao-related articles
|-
|{{DMA}}
|[[Biology:Outline of Dominica|Outline of Dominica]]
|Index of Dominica-related articles
|-
|{{DOM}}
|Outline of Dominican Republic
|Index of Dominican Republic–related articles
|-
|{{VEN}} Federal Dependencies of Venezuela
|
|
|-
|{{GRD}}
|[[Biology:Outline of Grenada|Outline of Grenada]]
|Index of Grenada-related articles
|-
|Outline of Guadeloupe
|Index of Guadeloupe-related articles
|-
|{{HTI}}
|[[Biology:Outline of Haiti|Outline of Haiti]]
|Index of Haiti-related articles
|-
|{{JAM}}
|[[Biology:Outline of Jamaica|Outline of Jamaica]]
|Index of Jamaica-related articles
|-
|Outline of Martinique
|Index of Martinique-related articles
|-
|{{MSR}}
|[[Biology:Outline of Montserrat|Outline of Montserrat]]
|Index of Montserrat-related articles
|-
|{{Flagicon|USA}} Navassa Island
|Outline of Navassa Island
|Index of Navassa Island-related articles
|-
|{{VEN}} Nueva Esparta
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|
|-
|{{PRI}}
|[[Biology:Outline of Puerto Rico|Outline of Puerto Rico]]
|Index of Puerto Rico–related articles
|-
|{{BES}} Saba
|
|
|-
|{{COL}} San Andrés and Providencia
|
|
|-
|[[Biology:Outline of Saint Barthélemy|Outline of Saint Barthélemy]]
|Index of Saint Barthélemy–related articles
|-
|[[Biology:Outline of Saint Kitts and Nevis|Outline of Saint Kitts and Nevis]]
|Index of Saint Kitts and Nevis–related articles
|-
|{{LCA}}
|[[Biology:Outline of Saint Lucia|Outline of Saint Lucia]]
|Index of Saint Lucia–related articles
|-
|Outline of Saint Martin
|Index of Saint Martin–related articles
|-
|{{BES}} Sint Eustatius
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|
|-
|[[Biology:Outline of the Netherlands Antilles|Outline of the Netherlands Antilles]]
|Index of the Netherlands Antilles–related articles
|-
|[[Biology:Outline of Saint Vincent and the Grenadines|Outline of Saint Vincent and the Grenadines]]
|Index of Saint Vincent and the Grenadines–related articles
|-
|[[Biology:Outline of Trinidad and Tobago|Outline of Trinidad and Tobago]]
|Index of Trinidad and Tobago–related articles
|-
|{{TCA}}
|Outline of Turks and Caicos Islands
|Index of Turks and Caicos Islands–related articles
|-
|Outline of United States Virgin Islands
|Index of United States Virgin Islands–related articles
|}

[[Earth:Americas|Continental nations]] surrounding the Caribbean Sea include:
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*{{CRI}}
*{{GTM}}
*{{HND}}
*{{MEX}}
*{{NIC}}
*{{PAN}}
*{{VEN}}

==See also==
* :fr:Caraïbes
* :es:Caribe (región)
*{{Intitle|Caribbean}}
*[[Place:Anglo-America|Anglo-America]]
*Latin American culture
*Latin America
*Index of Central America-related articles
*Lists of country-related topics
*[[Biology:Outline of North America|Outline of North America]]
*[[Biology:Outline of South America|Outline of South America]]
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==References==
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