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Aruba, Bonaire and Curacao.
Many of the Caribbean islands were once foreign territories or Spain, The Netherlands, France, UK, US or the Dutch. Many of the islands are still part of those nations.
The Spanish-speaking Caribbean islands are:CubaPuerto Rico (U.S. Commonwealth that has both Spanish & English as official languages)Dominican RepublicAll other Caribbean islands do not have Spanish as an official language, but many of them still understand it or have a majority population that use it as a second language.
The current British overseas territories:- Anguilla- British Virgin Islands- Cayman Islands- Montserrat- Turks and Caicos Islands
Probably the coast line of Belize protected by the Belize Barrier Reef. Not one of the Caribbean islands but still strictly in the Carribbean.
There are fourteen overseas territories still 'British': 1) Anguilla - Caribbean 2) Bermuda - Atlantic 3) British Antarctic Territory 4) British Indian Ocean Territory - Indian Sea 5) British Virgin Islands - Caribbean 6) Cayman Islands - Caribbean 7) Falkland Islands - South Atlantic 8) Gibraltar - Iberian peninsula 9) Montserrat - Caribbean 10) Pitcairn Islands - Pacific 11) South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands - South Atlantic 12) St Helena Island, Ascension Island, Tristan da Cunha Island - Mid Atlantic 13) Soverign Base of Akrotiri and Dhekelia Cyprus. 14)Turks and Caicos Islands - Caribbean
The five major Caribbean Island nations by size are Cuba, the Dominican Republic, Haiti, the Bahamas, and Jamaica. Smaller nations include the British Virgin Islands, the Turks and Caicos, Caimans, Montserrat, Grenada, among others.
Altogether there are over 7,000 odd islands that make up the Caribbean, but bearing in mind that the vast majority of these are reefs and cays the number soon falls. There are 115 main islands.
Caribbean Countries that were once British Colonies are: Jamaica Trinidad & Tobago Barbados Bahamas 5.St. Kitts & Nevis British Virgin Islands Turks and Caicos (Although Guyana is not Geographically located in the Caribbean relations with Caribbean brethren may make it seem so. Especially since Guyana was also a British Colony.) British Honduras Now known as Belize Dominica Grenada St. Lucia
Hispaniola and Barbados are islands of the Caribbean Sea. (*Barbados, at the eastern edge of the Lesser Antilles, is the easternmost island that is still considered part of the Caribbean. To its immediate east is the open Atlantic.)
Haiti was once a French country. It was known as Saint-Domingue during the French colonial period and became independent in 1804, making it the first independent nation in Latin America and the Caribbean.
This is probably a question referring to which countries gained independence from the US. They are Cuba and the Philippines. The Marshall Islands, Micronesia, and Palau have also somewhat gained independence from the US, through the UN Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands, however, they are still associated states of the US.