TRAVEL GUIDE to THE CARIBBEAN 

The Caribbean Region is a massive archipelago located in the Caribbean Sea, subdivided into regions: the Lucayan Archipelago, the Greater Antilles, the Lesser Antilles, and the ABC Islands. With 13 sovereign states and 17 dependent territories in the Caribbean, the predominant languages are English, Spanish, French, Dutch and Antillean creole. 

The Caribbean sprawls across more than 1.06 million square miles and is primarily located between North America and South America.

Currency: The Eastern Caribbean dollar serves as the official currency for the Organisation of the Eastern Caribbean States (OECS), an economic and monetary union established in 1981 to harmonize economic and trade policies among the 10 islands located in the Eastern Caribbean.

Only eight of the participating countries use the XCD. Martinique belongs to French DOM-TOM and therefore uses the euro, while the British Virgin Islands use the U.S. dollar.

Despite their small size and relative proximity to one another, many other Caribbean nations use their own currencies.