Name: カリブ海を解説!(地理ナウ!) (CARIBBEAN EXPLAINED! (Geography Now!))
Uploaded: 2021-01-14T10:21:59.000Z
Duration: 14 min 25 s
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So I asked you guys on social Media with the next filler week episode.

I did a little poll on the two most popular suggestions on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram, the slight majority on all platforms said they wanted me to do a fil A week on the Caribbean explained.

Now culturally speaking, most of these places are very similar, like they'll celebrate their own version of Carnival.

We all love seafood and play their variation of reggae, soccer and calypso music.

They all have, like the sexiest black people or Creole black people on the planet anyway.

On the technical side, the Caribbean is made of thousands of islands, islands and reefs divided into 34 island entities, 13 of which are fully sovereign nation states, and the rest are overseas regions, territories, dependencies and common walls or autonomous constituencies that belong to the UK, France, Netherlands, the USA, Venezuela and Colombia.

Generally, if it had to be categorically placed, the Caribbean is considered part of North America, although sometimes others will say it's just kind of its own thing.

The island chains are shaped like a hook engulfing the Caribbean Sea, which is on the Caribbean plate.

And off these islands, there are three main island chains the Lucayan Archipelago, the Greater Antilles and the Lesser Antilles.

In this video, we'll first go through the fully sovereign states, and then they did tendencies and territories given minds.

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Thank You Dollar Shave Club, Antigua and Barbuda, one of the four Twin Island countries.

It's kind of like the quieter, rich getaway island area famous further black pineapple.

They have 365 beaches, one for every day of the year.

Most of the 93,000 people live on Antigua Island, and only about 2000 livres on Barb Uda, the flat, marshy island.

They also legally owned Redonda Island, which has nothing but birds in a small, unnamed gecko species on it.

The Bahamas named after the Spanish word Baha Mar, meaning shallow sea.

This was the first place Christopher Columbus discovered on his voyage to the New World.

Long story short because of its location.

It's kind of like the Hawaii of the East Coast.

Is it pretty much we're Americans anywhere east of the Mississippi like to go on vacation when they want a tropical island experience.

There's so many cruise ships that go here to me, tourist sites like underwater caves, pink sand beaches, fortresses, native Taino sites.

There's even an island with swimming pigs that come up to you and ask for food.

Barbados is basically the oddball of the Caribbean.

For one, it's not even located on the trench line, and for some reason it's just about 100 miles east of their neighbors, which means they're outside of the hurricane zone, and they rarely get affected.

It was also the only island to have been briefly colonized by the Portuguese, but then they just kind of abandoned it, known as the Bay.

They're one of the richest nations in the Caribbean, known for their month long crop over festival.

They love eating, flying fish and cou cou washed down with Mount Gay rum.

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Cuba, the largest and most populous of the Caribbean nations, but not the most populous island that belongs to Hispaniola, the name of the island shared with Haiti and Dominican Republic.

Cuba is, of course, a Spanish speaking Caribbean nation considered part of Latin America.

We all know about the revolution, that Shaka Vera stuff and how the Marxist Leninist Communist Party has ruled since the sixties, which led to the tension during the Cuban missile crisis.

No, but seriously, Cuba sticks out much in that they were pretty much isolated for a long time and kind of kept things to themselves.

There was a lot of tension against the U.

Aside from all that, though, they have lots of resource is and culture I mean, you can still find the sunset Rio ritual is being performed by boxing in baseball are huge out here.

They love doing the mambo cha cha and bolero and Roomba Dominika, the quiet bookworm girl, youngest sister of the Caribbean.

Dominica is probably the most well kept island in the Caribbean, nature wise, and the government deliberately discourages mass tourism to maintain the beauty.

Lots of rare animal species found your, including the national animal that Cicero parrots found on the flag.

This is a volcanic island, and it is still growing through the geothermal activity.

They have the second largest hot spring in the world boiling lake, and they have Champagne Beach, with bubbles coming out of the ground.

Dominique also has one of the highest centenarian populations per capita on the planet, many states because of the healthy diet and happy, carefree atmosphere.

Dominican Republic Dominicans have quite a reputation.

First off, they share the island with Haiti, and together the island as a whole has over 20 million people, about twice that of Cuba.

The Dominican Republic is, of course, a Spanish speaking Latin American country.

Yet for a long time, there was a lot of tension between them and the French and Haiti.

Haiti even took over for a time, and lots of crazy things happen.

For what it's worth, gold Dominicans are definitely known for being some of the best baseball players in the world.

They, along with Chile, are the fastest talkers in the Spanish speaking world, and many people have trouble understanding them.

And there's always like this weird rivalry they have with Puerto Rico.

And, like everything, food, dance, sports.

For what it's worth, though, the majority of the people in the D R are either black or mixed with black, making it the blackest of all the Latin American countries.

Moran Gay Chat on the phone goes until stones.

But don't tell that to the Puerto Ricans.

Grenada, The Spice Island, Grenada is known for two things being the world's second largest producer of nutmeg after Indonesia, producing about 20% of the world's supply.

Even put it on their flag, and the other one is the operation Agent fury invasion in the eighties, which was criticized internationally.

But it kind of worked out on the people of Grenada.

We're like, kind of okay with it in the end and look it up.

Grenade is also famous for their interesting jab Jab festival, in which people doused themselves in oil and wear horns and dance to a drum fueled frenzy to express freedom.

Somehow Haiti, the first black republic in the world gaining independence from France and 18 four had a revolution, and you know the rest.

This place is Syria, typically known as the Voodoo Island.