The Caribbean Explained 

I love when people create things about the Caribbean it makes me feel special

I love how you're an American living Germany, and you've already lost the ability to say "the" instead saying "zhe"

No one: KhAnubis: the France

"This is a fascinating region" KhAnubis, when talking about literally any region. Seriously, I'd like you to make a video on a region you don't find fascinating, I dare you.

1:45 Bruh, you forgot Guadeloupe and Martinique. Those are part of the France, too.

As a longtime geonerd, the Caribbean gave me trouble, but not NEARLY as much as Oceania. There aren't a lot of countries, but remembering where all of them are relative to each other is tricky. And that's before you factor in the overseas territories. Speaking of overseas territories, you forgot to mention Guadeloupe and Martinique when talking about Caribbean territories of countries outside the Caribbean.

Dont forget our brothers in Belize. They are just as Caribbean as Guyana.

Guyana is absolutely recognized as part of the Caribbean in Caribbean textbooks. The clue was it having CARICOM's headquarters. Though "Countries in the Caribbean sea" seems like a solid simple definition to encompass what counts... In the Caribbean we are accommodating.

As a Grenadian thank you for doing this overview.

I'm Guyanese, even though we aren't touched by the Caribbean sea, we are very close to Caribbean culture.

As a Jamaican I think the Caribbean is overlooked area

Khanubi: "30 is opposite of 5." Mathematician: *scream*

It's great seeing a video about the Caribbean. It indeed has a rich and diverse heritage with lots of cultures mixing into one pot. You've missed out our French brothers and sisters in Guadeloupe and Martinique who share so much with the rest of us, including Carnival. Correction: OECS is pronounced: O.E.C.S not O-ECS. There are plenty native groups still in existence in the Caribbean today, most found in the islands off of (and part of) St. Vincent and Grenada, Dominica and some other smaller islands across the region.

Montserrat has a week off for St Patrick's Day while us in Ireland only get a day off.

“After totally failing to grow tobacco here” Cuba on the other hand, it’s still grown on the island. It’s the third largest export sector. Also, the Bahamas once wanted to join Canada as well. It’s quite a fascinating region with very interesting history

Yesterday was Indian arrival day in Trinbago. Thanks for highlighting us we barely get spoken about

You missed the breakup of the West Indies Union, which is still survived by the West Indies cricket team

who else here is from the caribbean watching this caribbean people for life also thank you for pronouning my country turks and caicos with sense usually especially white people dont pronoun it right

Finally, someone talks about my home. You should do a Dominican Republic video.

As a Jamaican I'm so glad you made this video, even though I know all this stuff already, but I didn't know *Brandenburg* colonized the area

How could you forget the 2 biggest islands of the Lesser Antilles, i.e. "zhe" French regions of Guadeloupe including Marie Galante, and Martinique?

Proud to be caribbean. Aruba tap in!!🇦🇼❤️

I'm from Grenada and I'm saying thank you for doing this video. Many do not know much about this region. I hope you mention Guadeloupe and Martinique (French oversees territories) in another video

Thank you for pronouncing Dominica and Grenada correctly, most people always mess that up. Also not mentioned in this video, but the Bay Islands of Honduras are considered Caribbean and they formally a UK colony. Most of the people still living there today are of Caymanian descent and English is still a primary language despite it being part of Honduras.

You forgot to mention Papiamento. The second creole language that became an official language and it’s spoken on Aruba, Bonaire & Curaçao

I am a Geography geek and I am starting to fall for your channel now. Also I liked how you give shout out to GN and Atlas Pro. Great work dude

Jamaica and Haiti aren't the only Caribbean countries with creole languages. St.lucia, Dominica, Guadeloupe, and Martinique (maybe there's more but I forgot). Otherwise, the video was great, I really love learning about my region.

Because I have played so much Sid Meier's Pirates, I know many names and locations of Caribbean islands and major cities.

how about a Eastern/Central Europe explained? The ones that were occupied/incorporated into Soviet sphere of influence. They contain many lesser known countries. Since the fall of the Iron Curtain, they've really changed drastically, though a lot of people still don't know much. I love visiting these countries (I'm from Taiwan).

My parents are from the Dominican Republic 🇩🇴….. much love to all the island nations 🙌🏽

Oh this will be interesting to watch as a Dominican!

As a Floridian, I can confirm we get bullied by hurricanes annually. It's just a part of life here.

Remembering the Caribbean island countries and territories? Maybe this might work 😅... Start from the South-East and go up: ( You can also remember this 10-digit (or just the first 7): *532 2623 223* ) *5-3-2 are English, French, English* Trinidad & Tobago, Grenada, Barbados, St. Vincent, St. Lucia, Guadeloupe, Martinique, Dominica, St. Kitts and Nevis, Antigua and Barbuda, *2 French Saints and 6 Dutch Sisters* Saint Martin, Saint Barthelemy, Sint Maarten, Sint Eustacias, Saba, Aruba, Bonaire, and Curaçao *America 2, next to 3 small British* Puerto Rico, U.S. Virgin Islands, U.K. Virgin Islands, Montserrat, Anguilla, *A Conjoined twin, mother Spanish, father English* Dominican Republic, Haiti Jamaica Cuba *To top it all off, spread out across the sea, are scattered island groups, fair little ones 3* Cayman Islands, Turks and Caicos, Bahamas *5-3-2 are English, French, English,* *2 French Saints and 6 Dutch Sisters,* *America 2, next to 3 small British,* *A Conjoined twin, mother Spanish, father English,* *To top it all off spread out across the sea,* *are scattered island groups, fair little ones 3*

As a self described Geographile, it pangs me to say Caribbean memorization perfection has long eluded me.

I just found your channel, and I'm Puerto Rican! Much love from the Island of Enchantment! Also, we have the worst luck ever. We got nuked by Hurricane Irma and María and this January we had a series of earthquakes, plus Coronavirus ofc. Guess we really are enchanted. xD

My family originates in the Caribbean.My Mother's family is from an OECS country. The Caribbean is filled with beutiful people and beautiful places.

Actually 5:00 not just one Jamaica, Grenada, and Guyana all went through a slightly red phase, especially the latter two

About 2,500-3,000 years ago, farmers and potters related to the Arawak-speakers of northeast of actual Venezuela established a second pathway into the Caribbean. Using the delta fingers of Orinoco River Basin like highways, they travelled from the interior to coastal Venezuela and pushed north into the Antilles islands of the Caribbean Sea, settling Puerto Rico and eventually moving westward. Their arrival ushered in the region’s Ceramic Age, marked by agriculture and the widespread production and use of pottery. Over time, nearly all genetic traces of Archaic Age people vanished, except for a holdout community in western Cuba that persisted as late as European arrival. Intermarriage between the two groups was rare, with only three individuals in the study showing mixed ancestry. Many present-day Cubans, Dominicans and Puerto Ricans are the descendants of ancient people from Venezuela , as well as European immigrants and enslaved Africans. But researchers noted only marginal evidence of Archaic Age ancestry in modern individuals.

fun fact the people claiming to have taino in their bloods could be correct as some did flee to the mountains in the caribbean countries and could have made contact with the maroons who ran from slave plantations

I'm very glad that you mentioned Guyana even though we aren't an island of the West Indies. We are still part of the English speaking Caribbean/CARICOM.

Wonderful video

I am very satisfied with the number of mentions Haiti got in this video! L'union fait la force :D

Don't forget my folks in the Honduran Bay Islands and the Nicaraguan coast! The Caribbean coasts and islands of Central American countries in general are dotted with lots of communities much closer culturally to the greater Caribbean than Latin America. Belize is pretty much a whole country based on this.

people on the coast of Honduras and Nicaragua have more in common (including last names and family history) to the Caribbean than to Central America

I knew the Carribbean was a melting pot but your video explained it on the next level detail Cheers KhAnbuis 😎

2:00 It was huge news in 2014 here that we'd finally get our own Hawaii, but we were baited

Glad you took my suggestion and turned it into this. You made me proud

*pirates music intensifies* Yo ho me heartie! Excellent video. Yer won't be keel-hauled on me watch! (Sorry for any pirates I may have offended with that impersonation)

i;m vincentian thank u for explaining what the caribbean is. because some people ask dumb questions when it comes to talking about my region

The Caribbean can be considered part of North America, but Suriname and Guyana can be considered part of the Caribbean, culturally, even though they are south America, it makes everything weird

No mention on the West Indies cricket team? It’s a good example of

You forgot Belize sir

Can you make a video with ways of memorising the geographical order of countries in the Caribbean?

Couldve also covered a bit on Haiti and the DRs history which goers way backl too it is interesting however great video! greetings from Santo domingo , DR

Makes a video about the Caribbean but doesn’t mention Belize

Thank you for not saying "Anti-gwa and Barbooda". Deeply appreciated.

My favorite part about living in the Caribbean is that we are all really cool with each other in some way but the moment someone talks about whos food teste the best it's like world war 3 has begone XD

2:56 Thank you, I didn't know that =D

West Indies makes it easy to remember the Caribbean

Love from Jamaica!!❤️♥️

Another great vid for the bank! BTW If you ever dedicate a video on Surinam, and would like some footage of officials speaking Dutch with members of the public, look up "Politie Paramaribo" on RU-vid. It's copyrighted, but maybe you can circumvent by invoking "Fair Use".

I'm a genealogy researcher and I traced my family tree in the Virgin Islands back nearly 300 years! I hope other people of the West Indies get to know more about our fascinating history. Colonisalism is a significant part of our past but there is much more to the history than you can imagine. I would encourage anyone with connections to the region to research their family history as I've got so much out of the experience.

You broke it down pretty good for someone who doesnt live in the Caribbean👍

Yeeeesss Geography now the best Channel😉🤩

I live in the Caribbean in the bahamas American people always say Caribbean and Bahamas wrong lol

I didn't sleep at night trying to remember these islands and polynesian islands

im thanking you for even mentioning aruba in the video like bruh nobody talks about my island country

anyone else had to watch this for homework?

As a Jamaican & Carib-being I applaud and thank you for your overview!

Belize is also a Carribean country

Love this content ! I’m growing my RU-vid channel and appreciate the info .

As a cruzan it’s cool to learn about the other parts of the Caribbean

You forgot to mention Guadeloupe, Martinique, Navassa Island, and Guantanamo Bay Naval Base (considered an occupied territory by the Cuban Government). Belize and French Guiana are sometimes included in the Caribbean too.

KhAnubis one day will you do a video on how did Hinduism 🕉 Spread to The Caribbean and Northern South America one day?

Any specific reason you left out Belize? While we do boarder Mexico and Gautemala, Dr. Carla Barnett , Secretary General of CARICOM is Belizean. We are a member state of Central America and the Caribbean. Proud of both in fact.

"Geography nerds trip over to name all the country " 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 So true man Man I love your channel

As a Puerto Rican the use of the Mexican flag to represent the Spanish Language triggers me a bit. All kidding aside I can tell you all the stories about the Carribean. Stories of pirates you probably never heard or fun fact that are hard to find online cause I lived in the carribean for almost all my life lol.

car-rib-bean

Great insight information.....who would have knew....except U :)

Bruh this dudes daily dose of internet

Saba is the best island there, super small and was fun to live on

Hey! You didnt even mention my people! A large number of Indian people settled in countries like Trinidad and Guyana! So did alot of Asians! :(

Proud caribbean girl🇯🇲🇯🇲

Great islands like Jamaica, The Bahamas, Trinidad, Tobago, Dominica, The Dominican Republic, Puerto Rico, Cuba, And Bermuda yeah

Belize sometimes

Love to visit all!!

Watching this with my class in zoom lol my teacher is really nice

The tv series death in paradise is filmed in Guadelouoe. Very beautiful Island

Good content, but Caricom Day isn't celebrated on the 4th of July, but on the first Monday in July.

Are francophones considered latinamericans? I mean they do speak a Latin derived language but I don’t know many people that considered Haiti, French Guyana, Quebec and sant Pierre et Miquelon part of Latinamerica, well it would depend on the definition you use

I kinda wanna see one of this videos on the Balkans/east Europe

Jamaica is one of the best country in the caribbean and we all know this Jamaica land we love 🇯🇲🇯🇲🇯🇲🇯🇲🇯🇲🇯🇲🇯🇲🇯🇲🇯🇲🇯🇲🇯🇲🇯🇲🇯🇲🇯🇲🇯🇲🇯🇲🇯🇲🇯🇲

Missed Guadeloupe

thank you for being up st kitts my home country

Nice

Claiming? You realize Mestizos are a mix of Americans and Europeans. That started since 1500 legally. 450 years before it became legal in Anglo USA in the 1960's. Which is why America is very mixed in most of the 35 American nations.

The Dominican Republic is a country, a central island in the Caribbean; it is not a northern territory in the Caribbean.

Can you make a video for native American settlements before Europeans?

It’s time to learn Geography...NOW

Greetings from Suriname #Subbed #Belled You forgot Sranang-tongo creole based language in suriname