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together, the Caribbean Islands create a kind of long narrow chain, almost
2,500 miles long, and no more than 160 miles wide. Running roughly north
of and parallel to Central and South America, the islands are scattered
across a very large sea.
All the islands fall into four major groupings: The Greater Antilles, The Lesser Antilles, The Bahamas archipelago, and the southern islands along the South American coast. Each island is different in its physical characteristics and enjoys a variety of landforms and climates different from its neighbours. Each island's natural resources influence its economic and political fortunes.
More than thirty million people in the islands of the Caribbean share a common history and similar patterns of development. The rule of four major empires — the Spanish, French, Dutch and English — and the importation of forced and indentured labour, mainly from the African Continent, India and China, over the course of the Caribbean's 500 years history (since the arrival of Columbus), has imposed different language, religion, and cultural influences upon each island. There are enough similarities of history, culture and traditions, however, to have forged and created through the years, a distinctive Caribbean "flavour", character and identity, with its own unique island difference.
Most of the former colonies have become Independent
states since 1962. Fifteen countries of the English-speaking Caribbean
have joined in an association called the Caribbean Community (CARICOM).
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