West Indies

West Indies
Area	239,681 km2 (92,541 sq mi)
Population	44,182,048
Population density	151.5/km2 (392/sq mi)
Ethnic groups	Afro-Caribbean; Latin-Caribbean; Indo-Caribbean; White-Caribbean; Mixed-Caribbean; Asian-Caribbean; Indigenous
Religions	73.5% Christianity 52.3% Catholicism; 20.2% Protestantism; 1.0% other Christian; ; ; 20.6% no religion; 2.5% folk religions; 2.1% Hinduism; 1.3% others;
Demonym	West Indian, Caribbean
Countries	16 Cuba ; Haiti ; Jamaica ; Dominican Republic ; Trinidad and Tobago ; Guyana ; Suriname ; Barbados ; Bahamas ; Belize ; Antigua and Barbuda ; Grenada ; Saint Kitts and Nevis ; Saint Lucia ; Saint Vincent and the Grenadines ; Dominica ;
Dependencies	18 Anguilla (UK) ; Aruba (Netherlands) ; Bonaire (Netherlands) ; British Virgin Islands (UK) ; Cayman Islands (UK) ; Curaçao (Netherlands) ; Guadeloupe (France) ; Martinique (France) ; Montserrat (UK) ; Haiti- Navassa Island (United States) and (Haiti) ; Puerto Rico (United States) ; Saba (Netherlands) ; Saint Barthélemy (France) ; Saint Martin (France) ; Sint Eustatius (Netherlands) ; Sint Maarten (Netherlands) ; Turks and Caicos Islands (UK) ; US Virgin Islands (United States) ;
Languages	English; Spanish; French; Dutch; French Creoles; English Creoles; Dutch Creoles; Spanish Creoles; Papiamento; Caribbean Hindustani; Indigenous languages;
Time zones	UTC−05:00 to UTC−04:00
Internet TLD	Multiple
Calling code	Multiple
Largest cities	Santo Domingo; Havana; Port-au-Prince; San Juan; Port of Spain; Kingston; Santiago de Cuba; Santiago de los Caballeros; Nassau; Camagüey; Cap-Haïtien
UN M49 code	029 – Caribbean; 419 – Latin America; 019 – Americas; 001 – World

The West Indies is an island subregion of the Americas, surrounded by the North Atlantic Ocean and the Caribbean Sea, which comprises 13 independent island countries and 19 dependencies in three archipelagos: the Greater Antilles, the Lesser Antilles, and the Lucayan Archipelago.^[4]^[5]

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, including Mexico, Belize, Honduras, Panama, Colombia, Venezuela, French Guiana, Guyana, and Suriname, as well as the Atlantic island nation of Bermuda, all of which are culturally related but geographically distinct from the three main island groups.

West Indies as seen from space at night, 2012

^ "World Population Prospects 2022". United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs, Population Division. Retrieved July 17, 2022.
^ "World Population Prospects 2022: Demographic indicators by region, subregion and country, annually for 1950–2100" (XSLX) ("Total Population, as of 1 July (thousands)"). United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs, Population Division. Retrieved July 17, 2022.
^ Johnson, Todd M.; Crossing, Peter F. (14 October 2022). "Religions by Continent". Journal of Religion and Demography. 9 (1–2): 91–110. doi:10.1163/2589742x-bja10013.
^ "West Indies". World Atlas.
^ "West Indies (island group, Atlantic Ocean)". Britannica.

[UN_WPP-1] "World Population Prospects 2022". United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs, Population Division. Retrieved July 17, 2022.

[UN_WPP_2022-2] "World Population Prospects 2022: Demographic indicators by region, subregion and country, annually for 1950–2100" (XSLX) ("Total Population, as of 1 July (thousands)"). United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs, Population Division. Retrieved July 17, 2022.

[3] Johnson, Todd M.; Crossing, Peter F. (14 October 2022). "Religions by Continent". Journal of Religion and Demography. 9 (1–2): 91–110. doi:10.1163/2589742x-bja10013.

[4] "West Indies". World Atlas.

[5] "West Indies (island group, Atlantic Ocean)". Britannica.

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