The Caribbean or the West Indies is a group of islands in the Caribbean Sea. These islands curve southward from the bottom tip of Florida to the Northwest of Venezuela in South America. There are at least 7000 islands, islets, reefs and cayes in the region. They are organized into twenty-five territories including sovereign states, overseas departments and dependencies.
The word CARIBBEAN is based on the perspective that when European explorers first visited the western tropical Atlantic realm they met native seafarers which carried with them edible beans for trade. Thought to be a version of the European legume called CAROB, the explorers named these native seafarers CARIBS that traded BEANS - and thus the name of the realm became known as the CARIBBEAN.

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