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Caribbean

The Caribbean is a geo-political region in the middle of the Americas centered around the Caribbean Sea in the North Atlantic Ocean, mostly overlapping with the West Indies.

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14869 landforms

Overview

The Caribbean is a geo-political region in the middle of the Americas centered around the Caribbean Sea in the North Atlantic Ocean, mostly overlapping with the West Indies. Bordered by North America to the north and also the west through Central America, and South America to the south, it comprises numerous islands, cays, islets, reefs, and banks. It includes the Lucayan Archipelago and Antilles of the west Indies; the Quintana Roo islands and Belizean islands of the Yucatán Peninsula; and the Bay Islands, Miskito Cays, Archipelago of San Andrés, Providencia and Santa Catalina, Corn Islands, and San Blas Islands of Central America. It also includes the coastal areas on the continental mainland of the Americas bordering the region from the Yucatán Peninsula in North America through Central America to the Guianas in South America.

From Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0

Census, cataloged

Major islands4
Minor islands2,145
Islets7,946
Rocks & skerries4,774

Major islands

Hispaniola
Area
73,990 km²
High point
3,098 m
Hispaniola is an island in the Greater Antilles of the Caribbean, located between Cuba and Puerto Rico. It is the most populous island in the West Indies and the second-largest by land area, after Cuba.

Cuba
Area
109,884 km²
Cuba, officially the Republic of Cuba, is an island country in the Caribbean. It comprises the eponymous main island as well as 4,195 islands, islets, and cays.
Cuba
Area
105,261 km²
High point
1,974 m
Cuba is an island nation in the Caribbean Sea. It comprises an archipelago of islands centred upon the geographic coordinates 21°3N, 80°00W. Cuba is the principal island, surrounded by four main archipelagos: the Colorados, the Sabana-Camagüey, the Jardines de la Reina and the Canarreos.
Haiti
Area
27,750 km²
Haiti, officially the Republic of Haiti, is a country in the Caribbean on the island of Hispaniola in the Caribbean Sea, east of Cuba and Jamaica and south of The Bahamas. It occupies the western side of the island, which it shares with the Dominican Republic. 4 million, it is the most populous Caribbean country.

Minor islands

196

Jamaica
Area
10,962 km²
High point
2,256 m
Island of Puerto Rico
Area
8,703 km²
High point
1,328 m
Trinidad
Area
4,823 km²
High point
940 m
North Andros Island
Area
3,323 km²
High point
24 m
Isla de la Juventud
Area
2,198 km²
High point
303 m
Great Inagua
Area
1,541 km²
High point
33 m
Martinique
Area
1,089 km²
High point
1,397 m
Great Abaco
Area
1,074 km²
High point
40 m
Margarita Island
Area
952 km²
High point
960 m
Basse-Terre Island
Area
847 km²
High point
1,467 m
Dominica
Area
751 km²
High point
1,447 m
Cayo Romano
Area
750 km²
High point
62 m
Gonâve Island
Area
682 km²
High point
361 m
Grand Bahama
Area
671 km²
High point
18 m
Saint Lucia
Area
603 km²
High point
950 m
Grande-Terre
Area
593 km²
High point
136 m
Mangrove Cay
Area
568 km²
High point
35 m
Acklins
Area
434 km²
High point
41 m
Barbados
Area
433 km²
High point
340 m
Curaçao
Area
428 km²
High point
372 m
Eleuthera
Area
416 km²
High point
58 m
Long Island
Area
405 km²
High point
31 m
Cayo Coco
Area
401 km²
High point
16 m
Saint Vincent
Area
344 km²
High point
1,234 m
Cat Island
Area
338 km²
High point
63 m
Grenada
Area
313 km²
High point
840 m
Tobago
Area
300 km²
High point
580 m
Cayo Romano Occidental
Area
294 km²
High point
44 m
Middle Caicos
Area
284 km²
High point
43 m
Mayaguana
Area
283 km²
High point
39 m
Bonaire
Area
272 km²
High point
241 m
Antigua
Area
271 km²
High point
402 m
Saint Kitts and Nevis
Area
269 km²
Crooked Island
Area
263 km²
High point
48 m
Saint Croix
Area
217 km²
High point
334 m
New Providence
Area
213 km²
High point
39 m
North Caicos
Area
205 km²
High point
31 m
Middle Bight Cay
Area
198 km²
High point
34 m
Grand Cayman
Area
195 km²
High point
28 m
East Caicos
Area
194 km²
High point
45 m
West Grand Bahama
Area
189 km²
High point
32 m
Aruba
Area
179 km²
High point
188 m
Tortuga
Area
179 km²
High point
459 m
Barbuda
Area
174 km²
High point
43 m
Saint Kitts
Area
168 km²
High point
1,156 m
Marie-Galante
Area
159 km²
High point
204 m
San Salvador Island
Area
155 km²
High point
40 m
La Tortuga Island
Area
152 km²
High point
48 m
Great Exuma
Area
143 km²
High point
38 m
Vieques
Area
133 km²
High point
281 m
Little Inagua
Area
130 km²
High point
29 m
Unnamed island
Area
125 km²
High point
21 m
Cayo Guajaba
Area
119 km²
High point
50 m
Providenciales
Area
116 km²
High point
48 m
Saona Island
Area
108 km²
High point
38 m
Unnamed island
Area
106 km²
High point
10 m
Montserrat
Area
103 km²
High point
915 m
Unnamed island
Area
101 km²
High point
13 m
Nevis
Area
93.8 km²
High point
960 m
Cayo Fragoso
Area
89 km²
High point
11 m
Cayo Grande
Area
83.3 km²
High point
15 m
Cayo Piedra del Obispo
Area
80.2 km²
High point
12 m
Rum Cay
Area
76.7 km²
High point
40 m
Saint Martin
Area
72.7 km²
High point
418 m
Anguilla
Area
72.1 km²
High point
73 m
Saint Thomas
Area
71.3 km²
High point
474 m
Unnamed island
Area
71 km²
High point
7 m
La Blanquilla Island
Area
64.4 km²
High point
46 m
Tortola
Area
56.5 km²
High point
521 m
Isla de Mona
Area
55.3 km²
High point
92 m
Coche Island
Area
55.1 km²
High point
67 m
Little Abaco
Area
54.9 km²
High point
22 m
Saint John
Area
49.7 km²
High point
377 m
Grande Cayemite
Area
48.9 km²
High point
239 m
Cayos de la Virazón
Area
48.6 km²
High point
15 m
Big Wood Cay
Area
47.8 km²
High point
19 m
Île-à-Vache
Area
45.7 km²
High point
74 m
La Orchila Island
Area
42.8 km²
High point
132 m
Cayos de las Cinco Leguas
Area
42.1 km²
High point
11 m
Unnamed island
Area
41.8 km²
High point
7 m
Beata Island
Area
41.3 km²
High point
84 m
Cayo Cruz del Padre
Area
40.1 km²
High point
12 m
Anegada
Area
39.9 km²
High point
13 m
Cayman Brac
Area
38.6 km²
High point
43 m
Cayo Largo del Sur
Area
37 km²
High point
14 m
Unnamed island
Area
33.3 km²
High point
7 m
Samana Cay
Area
33.2 km²
High point
26 m
Carriacou
Area
32.1 km²
High point
291 m
Unnamed island
Area
31.2 km²
High point
28 m
Little Cayman
Area
28.6 km²
High point
18 m
Culebra
Area
26.8 km²
High point
185 m
Cayos Dromedarios
Area
25.9 km²
High point
11 m
Yellow Cay
Area
25.4 km²
High point
10 m
Cayo Cruz
Area
25 km²
High point
9 m
Cubagua Island
Area
24.5 km²
High point
56 m
Unnamed island
Area
24.3 km²
High point
8 m
Little Exuma Island
Area
23.8 km²
High point
27 m
West Caicos
Area
22.9 km²
High point
19 m
Long Cay
Area
22.8 km²
High point
31 m
Virgin Gorda
Area
21.9 km²
High point
414 m
Cayo Santa María
Area
21.5 km²
High point
20 m
Unnamed island
Area
21.1 km²
High point
12 m
South Caicos
Area
21.1 km²
High point
47 m
Sint Eustatius
Area
20.9 km²
High point
600 m
Great Harbour Cay
Area
20.8 km²
High point
26 m
Gresquí
Area
20.3 km²
High point
20 m
La Désirade
Area
19.7 km²
High point
279 m
Saint Barthelemy
Area
19.2 km²
High point
286 m
Cayo del Rosario
Area
18.2 km²
High point
12 m
Grand Turk Island
Area
18.2 km²
High point
30 m
Unnamed island
Area
18.1 km²
High point
5 m
Unnamed island
Area
18 km²
High point
13 m
Unnamed island
Area
17.4 km²
High point
3 m
Cayo Cantiles
Area
17.1 km²
High point
10 m
Unnamed island
Area
16.7 km²
High point
19 m
Moore's Island
Area
16.5 km²
High point
27 m
Cayo Guillermo
Area
16.4 km²
High point
15 m
Cayo Blanquizal
Area
16.2 km²
High point
10 m
Bequia
Area
16.1 km²
High point
265 m
Ernst Thälmann Island
Area
14.9 km²
High point
10 m
Linder Cay
Area
14.5 km²
High point
9 m
Pine Cay
Area
14.4 km²
High point
10 m
Williams Island
Area
13.8 km²
High point
5 m
Saba
Area
13.1 km²
High point
870 m
Unnamed island
Area
12.8 km²
High point
9 m
Lightbourn's Cay
Area
12.1 km²
High point
6 m
Cayo Las Picúas
Area
12 km²
High point
9 m
Cayo Cantiles
Area
11.9 km²
High point
10 m
Great Guana Cay
Area
11.9 km²
High point
35 m
Barraterre Island
Area
11 km²
High point
22 m
Cayo Esquivel
Area
10.9 km²
High point
13 m
Cayo Paredón Grande
Area
10.5 km²
High point
8 m
North Bimini
Area
10.4 km²
High point
21 m
Cayo Judas
Area
10.4 km²
High point
10 m
Cayo Diego Pérez
Area
10.1 km²
High point
6 m
Cayo del Macío
Area
9.9 km²
High point
8 m
Cayo Culebra
Area
9.7 km²
High point
11 m
Unnamed island
Area
9.5 km²
High point
10 m
Unnamed island
Area
9.4 km²
High point
7 m
Cayo Las Brujas
Area
9.4 km²
High point
18 m
Catalina Island
Area
9 km²
High point
25 m
Current Island
Area
9 km²
High point
20 m
Unnamed island
Area
8.7 km²
High point
3 m
Union Island
Area
8.7 km²
High point
304 m
Plana Cays
Area
8.6 km²
High point
18 m
Big Harbour Cay
Area
8.6 km²
High point
10 m
Cayo Campos
Area
8.5 km²
High point
11 m
Jost Van Dyke
Area
8.5 km²
High point
315 m
Lowlands island
Area
8.4 km²
High point
72 m
Cayo Marcos
Area
8.4 km²
High point
10 m
Ragged Island
Area
8.4 km²
High point
32 m
Cayo Mégano Grande
Area
8.4 km²
High point
8 m
Conception Island
Area
8.4 km²
High point
20 m
August Cay
Area
8.2 km²
High point
8 m
Unnamed island
Area
8.2 km²
High point
4 m
Sweetings Cay
Area
8 km²
High point
8 m
South Bimini
Area
7.9 km²
High point
21 m
Canouan
Area
7.7 km²
High point
232 m
Unnamed island
Area
7.5 km²
High point
7 m
Cayo Matías
Area
7.4 km²
High point
6 m
Cayo Siju
Area
7 km²
High point
11 m
Plana Cays
Area
7 km²
High point
20 m
Unnamed island
Area
7 km²
High point
4 m
Little San Salvador Island
Area
7 km²
High point
27 m
Klein Bonaire
Area
6.9 km²
High point
7 m
Cayo de Buenavista
Area
6.8 km²
High point
11 m
Terre-de-Bas Island
Area
6.8 km²
High point
293 m
Unnamed island
Area
6.7 km²
Salt Cay
Area
6.7 km²
High point
19 m
Little Ambergris Cay
Area
6.6 km²
High point
5 m
Unnamed island
Area
6.5 km²
High point
7 m
Cayo San Juan
Area
6.4 km²
High point
4 m
Great Sale Cay
Area
6.4 km²
High point
8 m
Unnamed island
Area
6.4 km²
High point
14 m
Unnamed island
Area
6.3 km²
High point
2 m
Cayo Francés
Area
6.2 km²
High point
25 m
Cayo La Potala
Area
6.1 km²
High point
14 m
Unnamed island
Area
6 km²
High point
9 m
Unnamed island
Area
6 km²
High point
12 m
Unnamed island
Area
5.9 km²
High point
5 m
Little Harbour Cay
Area
5.8 km²
High point
9 m
Cayo El Sapo
Area
5.7 km²
High point
8 m
Parrot Cay
Area
5.7 km²
High point
19 m
McLean's Town Cay
Area
5.6 km²
High point
8 m
Unnamed island
Area
5.6 km²
High point
3 m
Cayo Versagua
Area
5.6 km²
High point
13 m
Mustique
Area
5.6 km²
High point
144 m
Cayo Lucas
Area
5.4 km²
High point
28 m
High Ridge Cay
Area
5.3 km²
High point
9 m
Unnamed island
Area
5.3 km²
High point
4 m
Unnamed island
Area
5.2 km²
High point
100 m
Unnamed island
Area
5.1 km²
High point
5 m
Unnamed island
Area
5.1 km²
High point
6 m
Unnamed island
Area
5 km²
High point
9 m
Chub Cay & Fraziers Hog Cay
Area
4.8 km²
High point
14 m
Cayo Las Loras
Area
4.8 km²
High point
10 m

Rocks & skerries

4774

On the chart above, at its closest zooms.

Listing 200 of 14869; the rest are on the chart.

Figures

Comparative heights

Islands by area

km², log scale

Groups within

Photographs

The lookout beside the Castillo de San Felipe del Morro, Old San Juan, PR
Ktorrespr / CC BY-SA 4.0
Rainforest on Island of St. Lucia in Caribbean
Paul Harrison / CC BY-SA 4.0
Groove Masters, Jouve Morning, San Nicolas 2025
Ginelly.Q / CC0
Groove Masters, Jouve Morning, San Nicolas 2025
Ginelly.Q / CC0
Rainforest on Island of St. Lucia in Caribbean; closeup of palm tree root cluster
Paul Harrison / CC BY-SA 4.0
Taken during a Cruise excursion
Paul Harrison / CC BY-SA 4.0
Grab hopper dredger (owned / operated by?) Santaella Estructuras Submarinas
ImagePerson / CC0
Taken somewhere in the Caribbean
ImagePerson / CC BY-SA 4.0
Tropical miniature landscape.
Paul Harrison / CC BY-SA 4.0
Rare view of the Cacique range - Tradewinds Trail - El Toro Wilderness - before Hurricane Maria - Nikon Image
RaulGarcia271828 / CC BY-SA 4.0
In the Tradewinds Trail - the cloud forest, before Hurricane Maria. Nikon image.
RaulGarcia271828 / CC BY-SA 4.0
Taken at Granpa's House in Mamiku Gardens
ImagePerson / CC0

Sources

Facts

Geometry, areas and high points: OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL), Copernicus GLO-30, via Talus.
Wikidata
Wikipedia

Photographs

Lookout near el Morro, Old San Juan, PR. Ktorrespr / CC BY-SA 4.0
Rainforest ST Lucia 2012 01 0760. Paul Harrison / CC BY-SA 4.0
Groove Masters, Jouve Morning, San Nicolas 2025 - 2. Ginelly.Q / CC0
Jouve Morning, San Nicolas 2025. Ginelly.Q / CC0
Rainforest St. Lucia Palm Tree Roots 0869. Paul Harrison / CC BY-SA 4.0
RANFOREST DOMINICA 6435. Paul Harrison / CC BY-SA 4.0
Santamar 222 Aruba 0579. ImagePerson / CC0
Tropical Beach Shells 0136. ImagePerson / CC BY-SA 4.0
West Indian cherry Malpighia emarginata aloe st maarten. Paul Harrison / CC BY-SA 4.0
YUNQUE PR 2013 RAIN FOREST 1483. RaulGarcia271828 / CC BY-SA 4.0
YUNQUE PR 2013 RAIN FOREST. RaulGarcia271828 / CC BY-SA 4.0
Kalanchoe pinnata St Lucia 0459. ImagePerson / CC0

Cuba	109,884 km²
Cuba	105,261 km²
Hispaniola	73,990 km²
Haiti	27,750 km²
Jamaica	10,962 km²
Island of Puerto Rico	8,703 km²
Trinidad	4,823 km²
North Andros Island	3,323 km²
Isla de la Juventud	2,198 km²
Great Inagua	1,541 km²
Martinique	1,089 km²
Great Abaco	1,074 km²
Margarita Island	952 km²
Basse-Terre Island	847 km²
Dominica	751 km²
Cayo Romano	750 km²
Gonâve Island	682 km²
Grand Bahama	671 km²
Saint Lucia	603 km²
Grande-Terre	593 km²
Mangrove Cay	568 km²
Acklins	434 km²
Barbados	433 km²
Curaçao	428 km²
Eleuthera	416 km²
Long Island	405 km²
Cayo Coco	401 km²
Saint Vincent	344 km²
Cat Island	338 km²
Grenada	313 km²
Tobago	300 km²
Cayo Romano Occidental	294 km²
Middle Caicos	284 km²
Mayaguana	283 km²
Bonaire	272 km²
Antigua	271 km²
Saint Kitts and Nevis	269 km²
Crooked Island	263 km²
Saint Croix	217 km²
New Providence	213 km²
North Caicos	205 km²
Middle Bight Cay	198 km²
Grand Cayman	195 km²
East Caicos	194 km²
West Grand Bahama	189 km²
Aruba	179 km²
Tortuga	179 km²
Barbuda	174 km²
Saint Kitts	168 km²
Marie-Galante	159 km²
San Salvador Island	155 km²
La Tortuga Island	152 km²
Great Exuma	143 km²
Vieques	133 km²
Little Inagua	130 km²
Unnamed island	125 km²
Cayo Guajaba	119 km²
Providenciales	116 km²
Saona Island	108 km²
Unnamed island	106 km²
Montserrat	103 km²
Unnamed island	101 km²
Nevis	93.8 km²
Cayo Fragoso	89 km²
Cayo Grande	83.3 km²
Cayo Piedra del Obispo	80.2 km²
Rum Cay	76.7 km²
Saint Martin	72.7 km²
Anguilla	72.1 km²
Saint Thomas	71.3 km²
Unnamed island	71 km²
La Blanquilla Island	64.4 km²
Tortola	56.5 km²
Isla de Mona	55.3 km²
Coche Island	55.1 km²
Little Abaco	54.9 km²
Saint John	49.7 km²
Grande Cayemite	48.9 km²
Cayos de la Virazón	48.6 km²
Big Wood Cay	47.8 km²
Île-à-Vache	45.7 km²
La Orchila Island	42.8 km²
Cayos de las Cinco Leguas	42.1 km²
Unnamed island	41.8 km²
Beata Island	41.3 km²
Cayo Cruz del Padre	40.1 km²
Anegada	39.9 km²
Cayman Brac	38.6 km²
Cayo Largo del Sur	37 km²
Unnamed island	33.3 km²
Samana Cay	33.2 km²
Carriacou	32.1 km²
Unnamed island	31.2 km²
Little Cayman	28.6 km²
Culebra	26.8 km²
Cayos Dromedarios	25.9 km²
Yellow Cay	25.4 km²
Cayo Cruz	25 km²
Cubagua Island	24.5 km²
Unnamed island	24.3 km²
Little Exuma Island	23.8 km²
West Caicos	22.9 km²
Long Cay	22.8 km²
Virgin Gorda	21.9 km²
Cayo Santa María	21.5 km²
Unnamed island	21.1 km²
South Caicos	21.1 km²
Sint Eustatius	20.9 km²
Great Harbour Cay	20.8 km²
Gresquí	20.3 km²
La Désirade	19.7 km²
Saint Barthelemy	19.2 km²
Cayo del Rosario	18.2 km²
Grand Turk Island	18.2 km²
Unnamed island	18.1 km²
Unnamed island	18 km²
Unnamed island	17.4 km²
Cayo Cantiles	17.1 km²
Unnamed island	16.7 km²
Moore's Island	16.5 km²
Cayo Guillermo	16.4 km²
Cayo Blanquizal	16.2 km²
Bequia	16.1 km²
Ernst Thälmann Island	14.9 km²
Linder Cay	14.5 km²
Pine Cay	14.4 km²
Williams Island	13.8 km²
Saba	13.1 km²
Unnamed island	12.8 km²
Lightbourn's Cay	12.1 km²
Cayo Las Picúas	12 km²
Cayo Cantiles	11.9 km²
Great Guana Cay	11.9 km²
Barraterre Island	11 km²
Cayo Esquivel	10.9 km²
Cayo Paredón Grande	10.5 km²
North Bimini	10.4 km²
Cayo Judas	10.4 km²
Cayo Diego Pérez	10.1 km²
Cayo del Macío	9.9 km²
Cayo Culebra	9.7 km²
Unnamed island	9.5 km²
Unnamed island	9.4 km²
Cayo Las Brujas	9.4 km²
Catalina Island	9 km²
Current Island	9 km²
Unnamed island	8.7 km²
Union Island	8.7 km²
Plana Cays	8.6 km²
Big Harbour Cay	8.6 km²
Cayo Campos	8.5 km²
Jost Van Dyke	8.5 km²
Lowlands island	8.4 km²
Cayo Marcos	8.4 km²
Ragged Island	8.4 km²
Cayo Mégano Grande	8.4 km²
Conception Island	8.4 km²
August Cay	8.2 km²
Unnamed island	8.2 km²
Sweetings Cay	8 km²
South Bimini	7.9 km²
Canouan	7.7 km²
Unnamed island	7.5 km²
Cayo Matías	7.4 km²
Cayo Siju	7 km²
Plana Cays	7 km²
Unnamed island	7 km²
Little San Salvador Island	7 km²
Klein Bonaire	6.9 km²
Cayo de Buenavista	6.8 km²
Terre-de-Bas Island	6.8 km²
Unnamed island	6.7 km²
Salt Cay	6.7 km²
Little Ambergris Cay	6.6 km²
Unnamed island	6.5 km²
Cayo San Juan	6.4 km²
Great Sale Cay	6.4 km²
Unnamed island	6.4 km²
Unnamed island	6.3 km²
Cayo Francés	6.2 km²
Cayo La Potala	6.1 km²
Unnamed island	6 km²
Unnamed island	6 km²
Unnamed island	5.9 km²
Little Harbour Cay	5.8 km²
Cayo El Sapo	5.7 km²
Parrot Cay	5.7 km²
McLean's Town Cay	5.6 km²
Unnamed island	5.6 km²
Cayo Versagua	5.6 km²
Mustique	5.6 km²
Cayo Lucas	5.4 km²
High Ridge Cay	5.3 km²
Unnamed island	5.3 km²
Unnamed island	5.2 km²
Unnamed island	5.1 km²
Unnamed island	5.1 km²
Unnamed island	5 km²
Chub Cay & Fraziers Hog Cay	4.8 km²
Cayo Las Loras	4.8 km²

Chart

Overview

Census, cataloged

Major islands

Cuba

Haiti

Minor islands

Saint Kitts and Nevis

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