Category CARIBBEAN
Saint Martin
Saint Martin is the northern French portion of a small Caribbean island it shares with Sint Maarten, the Dutch southern portion. Located in the Leeward Islands of the northeastern Lesser Antilles, Saint Martin is an overseas collectivity of France known…
Antigua and Barbuda
Antigua and Barbuda is a twin-island state in the eastern Caribbean’s Leeward Islands, covering approximately 442 square kilometers. Its geography — volcanic and limestone terrain, extensive coral reefs, and low-lying coastlines — shapes everything from its tourism-driven economy to its…
Aruba
Aruba sits apart from the Caribbean most people picture. There are no rainforests dripping with humidity here, no dramatic volcanic peaks piercing the clouds. Instead, this small island in the southern Caribbean Sea offers something different: a dry, sun-baked landscape…
Bonaire
Bonaire sits in the southern Caribbean Sea, closer to Venezuela than to many islands most people associate with the region. It is one of the three ABC islands — Aruba, Bonaire, and Curaçao — a compact chain of dry, low-lying…
Curaçao
Curaçao sits in the southern Caribbean Sea, just north of the Venezuelan coast, and it looks nothing like the Caribbean most people picture. Instead of rainforest and volcanic peaks, you find dry hills, cactus-studded scrubland, and a coastline of limestone…
Saba
Saba is a small volcanic island of roughly 13 square kilometers in the northeastern Caribbean, dominated by Mount Scenery, the highest point in the entire Kingdom of the Netherlands at approximately 870–877 meters. Saba is a public entity of the…
Sint Eustatius
Sint Eustatius, often called Statia, is a small volcanic island of about 21 square kilometers in the northeastern Caribbean. It is dominated by The Quill, a dormant stratovolcano, and combines dramatic volcanic terrain with coral reefs, tropical dry forests, and…
Sint Maarten (Dutch side)
Sint Maarten is a constituent country of the Kingdom of the Netherlands, tucked into the northeastern Caribbean on the southern half of a single small island it shares with France. It is not an independent nation, and it is not…
Bahamas
The Bahamas is one of the Atlantic world’s most geographically distinctive countries. It is not a single island, nor a compact cluster. It is an archipelago of more than 700 islands and 2,000 cays, islets, and rocks, scattered across roughly…