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The West Indies refers to the islands scattered across the Caribbean Sea, located between North and South America. This region matters because it has played a significant role in world history, trade, and culture, and today is home to diverse nations and territories with distinct identities.
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Research
39,005 papers- Rickettsia africae in the West Indies.ReviewEmerging infectious diseases · 2006Kelly PJDOI: 10.3201/eid1202.050903
- [Chlordecone and cancer in French-West Indies].Revue d'epidemiologie et de sante publique · 2008Multigner LDOI: 10.1016/j.respe.2008.06.256
- [Sargassum seaweed assaults the French West Indies].La Revue du praticien · 2024Resiere D, Florentin J, Nevière R
- Golden Jubilee: independence of Jamaica, Trinidad and Tobago, and the University of the West Indies as a degree granting institution.The West Indian medical journal · 2012Barton EN
- Contraception and induced abortion in the West Indies: a review.ReviewThe West Indian medical journal · 2011Boersma AA, de Bruijn JG
- Migration and multiple sclerosis: the French West Indies experience.ReviewJournal of the neurological sciences · 2007Cabre PDOI: 10.1016/j.jns.2007.06.044
- Assessment of river ecological status in the French West Indies based on diatom flora.Environmental monitoring and assessment · 2024Heinry L, Guéguen J, Boutry S et al.DOI: 10.1007/s10661-024-12980-w
- Traditional botanical remedies on a small Caribbean island: Middle (Grand) Caicos, West Indies.ReviewJournal of alternative and complementary medicine (New York, N.Y.) · 1997Halberstein RADOI: 10.1089/acm.1997.3.227
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Encyclopedic overview
The West Indies are an island subregion of the Americas, surrounded by the North Atlantic Ocean and the Caribbean Sea, which comprises 13 independent island countries and 18 dependencies in three archipelagos: the Greater Antilles, the Lesser Antilles, and the Lucayan Archipelago.
The subregion includes all the islands in the Antilles, in addition to The Bahamas and the Turks and Caicos Islands, which are in the North Atlantic Ocean. The term is often interchangeable with "Caribbean", although the latter may also include coastal regions of Central and South American mainland nations.
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