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The Caribbean Sea is a body of water adjacent to the Atlantic Ocean, south of the Gulf of Mexico. It is bounded on the south by Venezuela, Colombia, and Panama, to the west by Costa Rica, Nicaragua, Honduras, Guatemala, Belize, and the Yucatan peninsula of Mexico, to the north by the Greater Antilles islands of Cuba, Hispaniola, JamaicaThis article is about the country. For others uses, see Jamaica (disambiguation). Jamaica is a country in the Caribbean Sea, located south of Cuba and to the west of Hispaniola, on which Haiti and the Dominican Republic are situated. Jamaica ( In Detail), and Puerto RicoThe Commonwealth of Puerto Rico ("Estado Libre Asociado de Puerto Rico") is a self-governing unincorporated organized territory of the United States located in the northeastern Caribbean, east of the Dominican Republic. Puerto Rico, the smallest of the Gr, and to the east by the Lesser AntillesThe Lesser Antilles are part of the Antilles, which together with the Bahamas form the West Indies. They are a long chain of islands, wrapped around the eastern end of the Caribbean Sea on the boundary with the Atlantic Ocean. The Lesser Antilles are (gen.The Caribbean Sea covers about 2,754,000To help compare orders of magnitude of different surface areas, here is a list of areas between 1 million kmē and 10 million kmē. See also areas of other orders of magnitude. Areas smaller than 1 million kmē 1,000,000 kmē is equal to: 386,000 square miles kmēSquare kilometre (symbol km is an SI unit of surface area. It is one of the SI derived units. 1 kmē is equal to: the area of a square measuring 1 kilometre on each side 1 000 000 mē 100 hectares 0. 386 102 square miles (statute) 247. 105 381 acres Convers (1,063,000 square miles). The sea's deepest point is the Cayman TrenchCayman Trench also called Bartlett Deep or Bartlett Trough is a submarine trench on the floor of the western Caribbean Sea between Jamaica and the Cayman Islands. It extends from the Windward Passage at the southeastern tip of Cuba toward Guatemala. The r, between Cuba and JamaicaThis article is about the country. For others uses, see Jamaica (disambiguation). Jamaica is a country in the Caribbean Sea, located south of Cuba and to the west of Hispaniola, on which Haiti and the Dominican Republic are situated. Jamaica ( In Detail), 7500To help compare different orders of magnitude this page lists lengths between 1 km and 10 km (103 to 104 m). See also lengths of other orders of magnitude. Distances shorter than 1 km 1,000 metres is equal to: 1 kilometre 0. 62 miles 3,280 feet wavelength m (25,000 feet) below sea level.
The entire area of the Caribbean Sea, especially the numerous islands in the sea, is known as just the Caribbean.
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