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Caribbean Sea
The Caribbean Sea is one of the types of salty seas located in the globe, and it is considered one of the branches of the Atlantic Ocean, where it is bordered on the southern side by the South American continent, and on the western side by the Central American continent, and on the north by the Greater Antilles, and on the eastern side by the Lesser Antilles. It covers an area of 2,754,000 km2, and several bays of it are branched from the Gulf of Daren, the Gulf of Venezuela, and the Gulf of Honduras, and it is connected to the waters of the Pacific Ocean through the Panama Canal located in the Central American continent.
Islands in the Caribbean Sea
The island of Haiti
Geographically located in the waters of the Caribbean Sea, specifically in the western third of the island of Hispaniola, and its land area is 27,750 km2, and it is divided administratively into ten provinces, and its capital is the city of Port / Prince, and the system of government is a parliamentary republic, and its official language is the French language in addition to the Haitian Creole language, It is characterized by the frequent occurrence of natural disasters on its lands, such as tropical storms and earthquakes, and the hot and humid tropical climate in the summer, and mild warm in the winter.
The island is one of the poorest countries in the world, and despite that, its economy depends on:
- The agriculture sector that relies on subsistence agriculture. Its main crops include rice, ordinary and white corn, coffee, sweet potatoes, cotton, sugar cane, cocoa and bananas.
- The small industrial sector, and the mineral mining sector such as marble, copper and limestone.
Guadeloupe
Geographically located in the waters of the Caribbean Sea and the Atlantic Ocean, it is among the Lesser Antilles, it is administratively affiliated to the state of France, and its land area is 1,628 km², and its capital is the city of Bass-Terry, and its official language is the French language, its official currency is the Euro, and it is called Santa Maria de Guadeloupe de Extremadura.
The island of Saint Lucia
It is considered part of the Lesser Antilles, and it is located geographically in the eastern side of the Caribbean Sea, specifically on the border with the waters of the Atlantic Ocean, and its land area is 616 km2, and it is divided administratively into ten suburbs, and its capital is the city of Castries, and its system of government is a constitutional, parliamentary, royal and constitutional. The National is (Earth, People, Light), and belongs to a number of international organizations such as the Alliance of Small Island States, the International Center for the Settlement of Advisory Disputes, the World Trade Organization, the International Finance Corporation, the United Nations, the International Development Association, and the Caribbean Group.
The island was named after its name Saint Lucy, whose origins are from Syracuse, and the first European colonists were the French, and in 1814 AD the British took total control of it, and in 1979 AD the island gained independence from them, and its gross domestic product amounts to 1.746 billion dollars according to statistics for the year 2009 A.D.
St. Kitts Islands
Geographically located in the Leeward Islands located in the waters of the Caribbean Sea and the waters of the Atlantic Ocean, it is astronomically located on a longitude 62.66667 degrees west of the Greenwich Line at a latitude of 17.33 degrees north of the equator, and its land area is 261 km², and is divided administratively into fourteen parishes, and its capital is the city of Pasteur And its system of government is a representative, constitutional, monarchy, and federal constitution, and its national motto is the homeland before the soul, and its official currency is the Eastern Caribbean dollar.
