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Guadeloupe
Guadeloupe is an overseas department and region of the French Republic in the Caribbean. It consists of six inhabited islands—Basse-Terre, Grande-Terre, Marie-Galante, La Désirade, and two Îles des Saintes—as well as many uninhabited islands and outcroppings. It is south of Antigua and Barbuda and Montserrat and north of Dominica. The capital city is Basse-Terre, on the southern west coast of Basse-Terre Island; the most populous city is Les Abymes and the main centre of business is neighbouring Pointe-à-Pitre, both on Grande-Terre Island. It had a population of 395,726 in 2024.
Anguilla
Anguilla is a British Overseas Territory in the Caribbean. 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. The territory consists of the main island of Anguilla, approximately long by wide at its widest point, together with a number of much smaller islands and cays with no permanent population. The territory's capital is The Valley. The total land area of the territory is , with a population of approximately in .
British Virgin Islands
British overseas territory in the Caribbean
Taíno people
The Taíno were the Indigenous peoples in most of the West Indies, in the Caribbean region of the Americas. Their culture has been continued today by their descendants and by Taíno revivalist communities. They were the first New World peoples encountered by non-Norse Europeans. Part of the Arawak group of Indigenous peoples in the Americas, the Taíno are also referred to as Island Arawaks or Antillean Arawaks.
West Indies Federation
federation of British colonies (1958–1962)
British West Indies
British territories in the Caribbean, sometimes including former colonies
University of the West Indies
International university in the Caribbean
Saint Christopher-Nevis-Anguilla
Crown Colony and later, a Dependent Territory of the United Kingdom (1958-1983), located in the Caribbean Sea
British Leeward Islands
former British colony (1671–1816), reunited later as a federal colony (1833–1960), located in the Caribbean
British Windward Islands
former British colony (1833–1959)
Colony of Jamaica
British colony on the island of Jamaica, 1655–1962
Commonwealth Caribbean
English-speaking countries of the Caribbean
British West Indies dollar
currency of British Guiana and the Eastern Caribbean territories of the British West Indies from 1935 to 1965
West Indies Associated States
collective name for Caribbean islands whose status changed from being British colonies to states in free association with the UK in 1967