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{{Short description|English-speaking countries of the Caribbean}}
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The '''Commonwealth Caribbean''' refers to a group of [[English-speaking world|English-speaking]] [[sovereign states]] in the [[Caribbean]], including both [[island state]]s and mainland countries in the [[Americas]], that are members of the [[Commonwealth of Nations]] and were once part of the [[British Empire]]. The term may also include [[British Overseas Territories]] in the [[Caribbean Sea]]. 

==Nomenclature==
Before decolonisation, British [[Crown colonies]] in the [[West Indies]] were collectively known as the [[British West Indies]]. After gaining independence, the grouping of countries became known as the Commonwealth Caribbean.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://lcweb2.loc.gov/frd/cs/caribbean_islands/cx_appnc.html |title=The Commonwealth Caribbean |author=Staff writer |year=1989 |publisher=[[Library of Congress]], USA |access-date=31 August 2010 |archive-date=8 December 2009 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20091208063621/http://lcweb2.loc.gov/frd/cs/caribbean_islands/cx_appnc.html |url-status=live }}</ref> 

The Commonwealth Caribbean is also known as the '''English-speaking Caribbean''', Anglophone Caribbean, Anglo-Caribbean, or English-speaking West Indies, although use of these terms may also encompass other English-speaking Caribbean countries who are not members of the [[Commonwealth of Nations]].

== Countries and territories ==
The Commonwealth [[Caribbean]] encompasses [[sovereign state]]s that are members of the Commonwealth. It includes islands within the [[Caribbean Sea]] and mainland regions of the [[Americas]] that border the Caribbean.<ref>{{cite journal|title=Commonwealth Caribbean government publications: Biographies and acquisition aids|doi=10.1016/0196-335X(80)90028-X|last=Nilsen|first=Kirsti|volume=7|issue=6|year=1980|page=489|journal=Government Publications Review. Part A}}</ref> [[British Overseas Territories]] in the Caribbean and [[North Atlantic Ocean]] are also sometimes categorized together with the Commonwealth Caribbean.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.canada.ca/en/department-finance/programs/international-trade-finance-policy/canadas-unilateral-tariff-preference-programs-for-imports-from-developing-countries.html|title=Canada’s unilateral tariff preference programs for imports from developing countries|date=12 July 2024|access-date=16 February 2025|website=www.canada.ca|publisher=Government of Canada}}</ref>

The largest English-speaking island country in the Caribbean by area is the [[The Bahamas|Bahamas]], however the largest island in the region is [[Jamaica (island)|Jamaica]]. The largest in the region by area including countries with borders is [[Guyana]].

===Sovereign states===
The Commonwealth Caribbean includes twelve sovereign states, made up of ten island nations in the Caribbean and two countries situated on the mainland of the Americas. These are:
{| class="wikitable sortable"
|-
! Sovereign state
! Population (2023)<ref>{{cite web|url=https://population.un.org/wpp/downloads?folder=Standard%20Projections&group=Most%20used|title=Standard Projections (Estimates and Projection scenarios)|website=population.un.org|access-date=16 February 2025|year=2024}}</ref>
! Area (km²)
! [[Commonwealth realm]] or a [[republic in the Commonwealth of Nations]]
|-
| {{flag|Antigua and Barbuda}}
| 93,000
| data-sort-value="440"|{{convert|440|km2|sqmi|abbr=on}}
| Realm
|-
| {{flag|The Bahamas}}
| 399,000
| data-sort-value="13943"|{{convert|13943|km2|sqmi|abbr=on}}
| Realm
|-
| {{flag|Barbados}}
| 282,000
| data-sort-value="439"|{{convert|439|km2|sqmi|abbr=on}}
| Republic
|-
| {{flag|Belize}}{{efn|name=mainland|Belize and Guyana, though situated on the mainland of the Americas, have coastlines along the Caribbean Sea and are frequently categorized together with other Caribbean Commonwealth states.}}
| 411,000
| data-sort-value="22,966"|{{convert|22,966|km2|sqmi|abbr=on}}
| Realm
|-
| {{flag|Dominica}}
| 67,000
| data-sort-value="750"|{{convert|750|km2|sqmi|abbr=on}}
| Republic
|-
|{{flag|Grenada}}
| 117,000
| data-sort-value="344"|{{convert|344|km2|sqmi|abbr=on}}
| Realm
|-
|{{flag|Guyana}}{{efn|name=mainland}}
|826,000
| data-sort-value="214,969"|{{convert|214,969|km2|sqmi|abbr=on}}
| Republic
|-
|{{flag|Jamaica}}
| 2,840,000
| data-sort-value="10,991"|{{convert|10,991|km2|sqmi|abbr=on}}
| Realm
|-
|{{flag|Saint Kitts and Nevis}}
| 47,000
| data-sort-value="261"|{{convert|261|km2|sqmi|abbr=on}}
| Realm
|-
|{{flag|Saint Lucia}}
|179,000
| data-sort-value="617"|{{convert|617|km2|sqmi|abbr=on}}
| Realm
|-
|{{flag|Saint Vincent and the Grenadines}}
| 101,000
| data-sort-value="389"|{{convert|389|km2|sqmi|abbr=on}}
| Realm
|-
|{{flag|Trinidad and Tobago}}
|1,503,000
| data-sort-value="5,131"|{{convert|5,131|km2|sqmi|abbr=on}}
|Republic
|}
====Notes====
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=== British Overseas Territories ===
{{main|British Overseas Territories}}
The term "Commonwealth Caribbean" may also apply to British Overseas Territories in the Caribbean, as they are English-speaking and the United Kingdom is a member of the Commonwealth. However, more specific terms, such as "British Overseas Territories in the Caribbean,"<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://ukdefencejournal.org.uk/the-british-overseas-territories-in-the-caribbean/|title=A Guide to British Overseas Territories in the Caribbean|last=Tossini|first=J. Vitor|date=2017-10-06|language=en-GB|access-date=2020-02-09|archive-date=30 June 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200630232547/https://ukdefencejournal.org.uk/the-british-overseas-territories-in-the-caribbean/|url-status=live}}</ref> "British Caribbean territories,"<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://cpdb.wmo.int/territories/bct|title=British Caribbean Territories (WMO Territory)|website=World Meteorological Organization|access-date=9 February 2020|archive-date=30 June 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200630100225/https://cpdb.wmo.int/territories/bct|url-status=dead}}</ref> and the older "[[British West Indies]]" are typically used to refer exclusively to these territories.

These five British Overseas Territories include:
{| class="wikitable sortable"
|-
! British Overseas Territory
! Population (2023)<ref>{{cite web|url=https://population.un.org/wpp/downloads?folder=Standard%20Projections&group=Most%20used|title=Standard Projections (Estimates and Projection scenarios)|website=population.un.org|access-date=16 February 2025|year=2024}}</ref>
! Area (km²)
|-
|{{flag|Anguilla}}
|14,000
| data-sort-value="91"|{{convert|91|km2|sqmi|abbr=on}}
|-
|{{flag|British Virgin Islands}}
|39,000
| data-sort-value="153"|{{convert|153|km2|sqmi|abbr=on}}
|-
|{{flag|Cayman Islands}}
|73,000
| data-sort-value="259"|{{convert|259|km2|sqmi|abbr=on}}
|-
|{{flag|Montserrat}}
|4,000
| data-sort-value="102"|{{convert|102|km2|sqmi|abbr=on}}
|-
|{{flag|Turks and Caicos Islands}}
|46,000
| data-sort-value="948"|{{convert|948|km2|sqmi|abbr=on}}
|}
The British territory of [[Bermuda]] is sometimes considered part of the Commonwealth Caribbean. However, Bermuda is neither geologically nor spatially associated with the Caribbean, which lies {{convert|1300|km2|mi2}} to the south and southwest of Bermuda.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.britannica.com/place/Bermuda|title=Bermuda|website=www.britannica.com|last1=Heaton|last2=Rushe|first1=Pauline|first2=George J.|date=17 February 2025|access-date=2 March 2025|publisher=Encyclopædia Britannica}}</ref>

==Intergovernmental organisations and unions==
Since the mid-20th century, several political and economic unions were formed involving Commonwealth Caribbean states.

Besides economic and political unions, the national cricket associations of several Commonwealth Caribbean countries and British Overseas Territories are members of [[Cricket West Indies]]. While its membership primarily made up of associations from Commonwealth Caribbean, Cricket West Indies also includes representatives from two non-Commonwealth territories, [[Sint Maarten national cricket team|Sint Maarten]] of the [[Dutch Caribbean]] and the [[United States Virgin Islands national cricket team|United States Virgin Islands]]. The organisation fields a composite team, the [[West Indies cricket team]], which competes in [[International Cricket Council]]-recognized tournaments.

=== West Indies Federation (1958–62)===
{{Main|West Indies Federation}}
[[File:Map of the West Indies Federation.svg|alt=West Indies Federation Map|thumb|The Caribbean with [[West Indies Federation]] members in red. The short-lived federation was made up of [[British West Indies]] colonies from 1958–62.]]
Between 1958 and 1962, there was a short-lived federation between several English-speaking Caribbean countries, called the West Indies Federation. It included the [[Crown colonies]] that made up the British West Indies, including Barbados, [[Colony of Jamaica|Jamaica]], Trinidad and Tobago, the [[British Leeward Islands]] and the [[British Windward Islands]].

===Caribbean Free Trade Association (1965–1973)===
{{main|Caribbean Free Trade Association}}
The Caribbean Free Trade Association (CARIFTA) was established on 15 December 1965, with Antigua and Barbuda, Barbados, Guyana, and Trinidad and Tobago as its founding members. The organisation aimed to integrate the economies of the newly formed sovereign states of the British West Indies by providing an agreement for free trade and encouraging "balanced development" in the region. Seven additional members were added to CARIFTA in 1968, Dominica, Grenada, Jamaica, Montserrat, [[Saint Christopher-Nevis-Anguilla]], Saint Lucia, and St Vincent and the Grenadines. In 1971, British Honduras joined the organisation. In 1973, CARIFTA was replaced by the Caribbean Community.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://caricom.org/the-caribbean-free-trade-association-carifta/|website=caricom.org|title=Caribbean Free Trade Association (CARIFTA)|publisher=Caribbean Community Secretariat|year=2023|access-date=23 November 2023}}</ref>

=== Caribbean Community (1973–present) ===
{{Main|Caribbean Community}}
[[File:Caricom Member states 2024.png|thumb|Full members include all Caribbean Commonwealth sovereign states, Montserrat, Haiti, and Suriname.]]
The English-speaking parts of the Caribbean established the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) in 1973, and it currently includes all the independent English-speaking island countries plus Belize, Guyana and Montserrat, as well as all other British Caribbean territories and Bermuda as associate members. English was its sole official language until 1995, following the addition of Dutch-speaking [[Suriname]].

== Wider Anglophone communities in the region ==
{{See also|English-speaking world|Anglosphere}}
Since there are other non-Commonwealth Caribbean islands in which English is the primary or secondary language, the term Commonwealth Caribbean is not necessarily inclusive of all islands that encompass the English-speaking Caribbean, such as being a former or current British colony in the Caribbean. Accordingly, the terms Anglophone Caribbean, English-speaking Caribbean, Anglo-Caribbean, or English-speaking West Indies are also used.{{Citation needed|date=January 2023}}

In addition to these formally recognised countries, there are substantial communities of Commonwealth Caribbean origin along the Atlantic or Caribbean coast of Central America, as a part of the [[western Caribbean zone]]. These communities, which began forming in the seventeenth century, include areas of Nicaragua and Honduras that made up the [[Miskito people#British-Miskito alliance|Miskito Kingdom]] (which was under British protection after 1740), the [[Garifuna people|Garifuna]] community (which was deported to the coast in 1797 and took up English as its language), the [[Archipelago of San Andrés, Providencia and Santa Catalina]] (Colombia), and the many and numerous Anglophone Caribbean people who were brought to Central America by the canal companies (the French and American [[Panama Canal]] efforts), railroad companies, and particularly the fruit companies, such as [[United Fruit Company|United Fruit]] after the 1870s and particularly in the first decades of the twentieth century.  Many have never fully integrated into the otherwise Spanish-speaking communities in which they reside, such as the Caracoles of [[Honduras]].{{Citation needed|date=January 2023}}
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!Non-Commonwealth Anglophone territories
!Notes
|-
|{{flag|Honduras}} [[Bay Islands Department|Bay Islands]]
| The Bay Islands are one of the [[Departments of Honduras|18 departments]] of [[Honduras]], consisting primarily of the islands of [[Guanaja]], [[Roatán]], and [[Útila]], along with a number of smaller islands.  Historically settled by people from the United Kingdom (mainly England), the territory has remained primarily English-speaking, even though the islands were annexed by Honduras in the 1860s, largely due to their relative isolation from the rest of Honduras and due to immigration from other English-speaking areas of the Caribbean.  Spanish remains the official language, and is the second-most spoken language, on the islands, and many people are bilingual in both English and Spanish.
|-
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* {{flag|United States}}
** {{flag|Puerto Rico}}
** {{flag|U.S. Virgin Islands}}{{Tree list/end}}
| English has been one of the two [[official language]]s of Puerto Rico alongside Spanish as its predominant and primary language since 1902, this is due to the fact that Puerto Rico had remained under [[Captaincy General of Puerto Rico|Spanish rule]] for more than 400 years from 1493 to 1898 and has remained an [[Commonwealth (U.S. insular area)|American Commonwealth]] since 1898. Because of this, English is taught in all Puerto Rican schools and is the primary language of all of the U.S. federal agencies in Puerto Rico. Its status as an official language however was briefly removed in 1991 but was brought back in 1993 and English has remained the co-official language of the Commonwealth since then.<ref>{{cite web |title=English in Puerto Rico |url=https://www.puertoricoreport.com/english-in-puerto-rico/#.Y5DmOnbMKUl |website=Puerto Rico Report |access-date=7 December 2022 |archive-date=7 December 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221207191919/https://www.puertoricoreport.com/english-in-puerto-rico/#.Y5DmOnbMKUl |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{cite news |title=Puerto Rico makes Spanish official language |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/politics/1991/04/06/puerto-rico-makes-spanish-official-language/50b6c2a9-563e-4f8b-a00e-1b65b80a0a6e/ |newspaper=Washington Post |access-date=7 December 2022 |archive-date=2 May 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200502211047/https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/politics/1991/04/06/puerto-rico-makes-spanish-official-language/50b6c2a9-563e-4f8b-a00e-1b65b80a0a6e/ |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{Cite book |last=Valle |first=Sandra Del |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=9-8nUaEdpFMC&dq=puerto+spanish+main+language&pg=PA21 |title=Language Rights and the Law in the United States: Finding Our Voices |date=2003-01-01 |publisher=Multilingual Matters |isbn=978-1-85359-658-2 |language=en |access-date=6 September 2022 |archive-date=18 November 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221118152604/https://books.google.com/books?id=9-8nUaEdpFMC&dq=puerto+spanish+main+language&pg=PA21 |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{Cite book |last=Johannessen |first=B. Gloria Guzmán |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=bMqDDwAAQBAJ&dq=puerto+spanish+main+language&pg=PA161 |title=Bilingualism and Bilingual Education: Politics, Policies and Practices in a Globalized Society |date=2019-01-14 |publisher=Springer |isbn=978-3-030-05496-0 |language=en |access-date=6 September 2022 |archive-date=18 November 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221118152555/https://books.google.com/books?id=bMqDDwAAQBAJ&dq=puerto+spanish+main+language&pg=PA161 |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{cite news |url=http://www.efe.com/efe/english/life/p-rico-senate-declares-spanish-over-english-as-first-official-language/50000263-2704154 |title=P. Rico Senate declares Spanish over English as first official language |work=News Report |date=4 September 2015 |agency=Agencia EFE |access-date=7 February 2016 |location=San Juan, Puerto Rico |archive-date=1 November 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201101090937/https://www.efe.com/efe/english/life/p-rico-senate-declares-spanish-over-english-as-first-official-language/50000263-2704154 |url-status=dead }}</ref>
The [[United States Virgin Islands|U.S. Virgin Islands]] is another English-speaking territory in the Caribbean that is under the administration of the United States. English has been the predominant and official language since 1917 when the islands were transferred from Denmark to the United States. Under Danish rule, the official language was Danish, but it was solely the language of administration and was only spoken by Danish people, a tiny minority of the overall population that primarily occupied administrative roles in colonial Danish West Indian society. Since both the U.S. Virgin Islands and Puerto Rico are owned by the United States, it is not considered to be a part of the Commonwealth. [[Virgin Islands Creole|Virgin Islands Creole English]], which is an English-based creole locally known as "dialect", is spoken in informal situations. The form of Virgin Islands Creole spoken on [[Saint Croix]], known as Crucian, is slightly different from the ones that are spoken on [[Saint Thomas, U.S. Virgin Islands|Saint Thomas]] and [[Saint John, U.S. Virgin Islands|Saint John]].<ref>Plata Monllor, Miriam R. 2008. ''[https://www.proquest.com/openview/369ee80a01bc1b23da102f852163d45a/1?pq-origsite=gscholar&cbl=18750 Phonological features of Crucian Creole. Doctoral Dissertation] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230117164311/https://www.proquest.com/openview/369ee80a01bc1b23da102f852163d45a/1?pq-origsite=gscholar&cbl=18750 |date=17 January 2023 }}''. Doctoral dissertation, University of Puerto Rico. ProQuest Dissertations Publishing.</ref><ref>Vergne Vargas, Aida M. 2017. ''[https://www.proquest.com/openview/d153f5d0ad8e13e10b0f2042f4accf76/1?pq-origsite=gscholar&cbl=18750&diss=y A Comparative Study of the Grammatical Structures of Crucian Creole and West African Languages] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230117164311/https://www.proquest.com/openview/d153f5d0ad8e13e10b0f2042f4accf76/1?pq-origsite=gscholar&cbl=18750&diss=y |date=17 January 2023 }}''. Doctoral dissertation, University of Puerto Rico. ProQuest Dissertations Publishing.</ref>
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* {{flag|Netherlands}}
** {{flag|Sint Maarten}}
** {{flag|Saba}}
** {{flag|Sint Eustatius}}{{Tree list/end}}
[[Sint Maarten]], a [[Kingdom of the Netherlands#Constituent countries|constituent country]] of the [[Kingdom of the Netherlands]], is also a majority English-speaking territory in the Caribbean. However, as with the Kingdom of the Netherlands, it isn't a part of the Commonwealth. English is the day-to-day administrative language and language of communication in Sint Maarten, and the first language of the majority (67.5%) of the population. A local variety of [[Virgin Islands Creole]] is spoken in informal situations by Sint Maarteners between themselves. Local signage uses both Dutch and English. The main languages are English and Dutch. There were English-medium and Dutch-medium schools in Sint Maarten, and the Dutch government policy towards St. Maarten and other [[SSS islands]] promoted English-medium education.<ref>{{cite web |title=CIA World Factbook – Sint Maarten |url=https://www.cia.gov/the-world-factbook/countries/saint-martin/ |website=[[The World Factbook]] |access-date=17 January 2023 |archive-date=3 November 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211103012953/https://www.cia.gov/the-world-factbook/countries/saint-martin |url-status=live }}</ref><ref name="Klompp80">Klomp, Ank. "Saint Martin: Communal Identities on a Divided Caribbean Island." In: Niedermüller, Peter and Bjarne Stoklund (editors). ''Journal of European Ethnology'' Volume 30:2, 2000: ''Borders and Borderlands: An Anthropological Perspective''. [[Museum Tusculanum Press]], 2000. {{ISBN|8772896779}}, 9788772896779. Start: p. [https://books.google.com/books?id=NnfLPtJ0i1UC&pg=PA73 73]. CITED: p. [https://books.google.com/books?id=NnfLPtJ0i1UC&pg=PA80 80].</ref>
Both English and Dutch are spoken and understood on the island and taught in schools, and both languages are official. Despite the island's Dutch affiliation, English is the principal language spoken on the island and has been used in its school system since the 19th century. Dutch is only spoken by 32% of the population. English is the sole medium of instruction in Saba schools. Dutch government policy towards Saba and other SSS islands promotes English-medium education.<ref name=languages>English can be used in relations with the government. {{cite web|url=http://wetten.overheid.nl/BWBR0028063/tekst_bevat_taal%2Bin%2Bhet%2Bbestuurlijk%2Bverkeer/geldigheidsdatum_14-10-2012|title=Invoeringswet openbare lichamen Bonaire, Sint Eustatius en Saba|language=nl|publisher=wetten.nl|access-date=2012-10-14|archive-date=17 January 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150117173755/http://wetten.overheid.nl/BWBR0028063/tekst_bevat_taal+in+het+bestuurlijk+verkeer/geldigheidsdatum_14-10-2012|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.tourismbonaire.com/includes/trends-in-the-caribbean-netherlands-2017.pdf|title=Trends in the Caribbean Netherlands 2017|date=2017|publisher=Tourism Bonaire|access-date=2022-08-14|url-status=live|archive-date=2022-04-01|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220401045757/https://www.tourismbonaire.com/includes/trends-in-the-caribbean-netherlands-2017.pdf}}</ref>
| The official language is Dutch, but English is the "language of everyday life" on the island and education is solely in English.<ref>{{Cite web |date=19 June 2014 |title=English to Be Sole Language of Instruction in St Eustatian Schools |url=http://www.government.nl/news/2014/06/19/english-to-be-sole-language-of-instruction-in-st-eustatian-schools.html |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150224093715/http://www.government.nl/news/2014/06/19/english-to-be-sole-language-of-instruction-in-st-eustatian-schools.html |archive-date=24 February 2015 |access-date=20 February 2015 |website=Government of the Netherlands}}</ref> A local [[English-based creole languages|English-based creole language]] is also spoken informally, locally known as the [[Virgin Islands Creole|Netherlands Antilles Creole English]]. More than 52% of the population speaks more than one language.
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* {{flag|France}}
** {{flag|Saint Martin}}{{Tree list/end}}
| Although French is the sole official language of the territory, use of English on the island dates back to 1600s, and a local [[English-based creole languages|English-based creole language]] is spoken in informal situations on both the French and Dutch sides of the island, it is known locally as [[Virgin Islands Creole|Saint Martin English]].<ref>{{cite web |title=CIA World Factbook – Saint Martin |url=https://www.cia.gov/the-world-factbook/countries/saint-martin/ |access-date=24 July 2019 |archive-date=3 November 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211103012953/https://www.cia.gov/the-world-factbook/countries/saint-martin |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>Holm (1989) ''Pidgins and Creoles,'' vol. 2</ref>
|}

==See also==
{{Portal|Geography}}
*[[Anglo-America]]
*[[British America]]
*[[British West Indies]]
*[[Caribbean English]]
*[[Languages of the Caribbean]]

===Other parts of the Caribbean===
*{{annotated link|Danish West Indies}}
*{{annotated link|Dutch Caribbean}}
*{{annotated link|Latin America and the Caribbean}}
* [[Latin Caribbean (disambiguation)]]
**{{annotated link|French West Indies}}
**{{annotated link|Spanish West Indies}}

==References==
{{reflist}}

==Further reading==
* Mawby, Spencer. ''Ordering Independence: The End of Empire in the Anglophone Caribbean, 1947–69'' (Springer, 2012).
* [http://countrystudies.us/caribbean-islands/2.htm U.S. Library of Congress – The Commonwealth Caribbean]

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[[Category:British West Indies]]
[[Category:Caribbean Community]]
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[[Category:English-speaking countries and territories]]
[[Category:English language in the Caribbean]]