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Also known as Caribbean Basin

island region in the Caribbean

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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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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.

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “West Indies” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.

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