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Caribbean Population, Size, Language

By Xavier Murphy

Published Mar 29, 2003

Below is a brief overview of the other Caribbean islands.

NAME	LOCATION	SIZE	POPULATION	LANGUAGE
Anguilla	Eastern Caribbean	40 Sq. Miles	10,300	English
Antigua/Barbuda	Eastern Caribbean	108 Sq. Miles	66,500	English
Aruba	S. Caribbean	77 Sq. Miles	81,507	Dutch, English, Spanish, Papiamento
The Bahamas	50 miles S. of Florida	700 Islands 29 Inhabited	273,000	English
Barbados	Windwards	166 Sq. Miles	264,000	English
Belize	Central America	8,867 Sq. Miles	214,000	English, Spanish, Creole
BR Virgin Islands	E. of Puerto Rico	36 Islands - 59 Sq Miles	17,896	English
Cayman Islands	NW of Jamaica	3 Islands - 100 Sq Miles	31,930	English
Curacao	S. Caribbean	444 Sq. Miles	146,828	Dutch, English, Spanish, Papiamento
Dominica	Eastern Caribbean	290 Sq. Miles	73.500	English, French Creole
Dominican Republic	E. 1/3 of Hispaniola	18,700 Sq Miles	7.7 million	Spanish
French Guiana	South American Coast	33,135 Sq. Miles	130,000	French
Grenada	E. Caribbean	133 Sq. Miles	95,500	English
Guadeloupe	E. Caribbean	687 Sq. Miles	410,000	French, Creole
Guyana	South America	83,000 Sq. Miles 5% Inhabited	730,000	English
Haiti	W 1/3 of Hispaniola	10,700 Sq. Miles	7 Million	French, Creole
Jamaica	South of Cuba	4,111 Sq. Miles	2.5 million	English
Martinique	E. Caribbean	840 Sq. Miles	360,000	French, Creole
Montserrat	Leeward Islands	39.5 Sq. Miles	10,581	English
St. Kitts/Nevis	Leeward Islands	133 Sq. Miles	42,000	English
St. Lucia	E. Caribbean	238 Sq. Miles	142,689	English & French Patois
St. Martin/St. Maarten	150 miles SE of Puerto Rico	37 sq. miles	32,000 (St Martin) & 38,876 (St. Maarten )	French, Dutch, English
St. Vincent & the Grenadines	E. Caribbean	150 Sq. Miles	118,000	English
Suriname	S. America, north of Brazil	63,251 Sq. Miles	455,000	Dutch, Surinamese, Hindi, Chinese and Javanese
Trinidad & Tobago	7 miles west of Venezuela	1,980 Sq. Miles	1.2 Million	English
Turks & Caicos	SE end of the Bahamas	192 Sq. Miles	13,800	English
US Virgin Islands	SE of Puerto Rico	135 sq miles	119,827	English

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