ويسٽ انڊيز

ويسٽ انڊيز (West Indies) آمريڪا کنڊ جو هڪ ٻيٽ وارو علائقو آهي، جيڪو اتر ايٽلانٽڪ سمنڊ ۽ ڪيريبين سمنڊ سان گھريل آهي. ان ۾ تيرهه 13 خودمختيار رياستون، اڻويهه 19 انحصاري علائقا ۽ ٽن ٻيٽن جا مجموعا (گريٽر اينٽيلس، ليسر اينٽيلس ۽ لوڪيان ٻيٽن جو مجموعو) شامل آهن.

تفصيل

نظر ھيٺ مضمون the island region in the Caribbean and North Atlantic Ocean تي آهي. ٻين استعمالن جي لاءِ ويسٽ انڊيز (سلجھائپ) ڏسو.

West Indies

ايراضي	239٬681 km2 (92٬541 sq mi)
آبادي	43,601,839
آبادي گهاٽائي	151.5 /km2 (392 /sq mi)
نسلي گروھ	Afro-Caribbean Latin-Caribbean Indo-Caribbean White-Caribbean Mixed-Caribbean Asian-Caribbean Indigenous
مذھب	73.5% Christianity 52.3% Catholicism 20.2% Protestantism 1.0% other Christian 20.6% no religion 2.5% folk religions 2.1% Hinduism 1.3% others
Demonym	West Indian, Caribbean
ديس	15 ڪيوبا هيٽي جميڪا ڊومينيڪن ريپبلڪ ٽرينيڊاڊ ۽ ٽوباگو گيانا سورينام بارباڊوس بهاماس انٽيگوا ۽ باربودا گريناڊا سينٽ ڪيٽس ۽ نيوس سينٽ لوسيا سينٽ وينسينٽ ۽ گريناڊائنز ڊومينيڪا
آڌار	18 سانچو:Country data Anguilla (UK) آروبا (Netherlands) بونايئر (Netherlands) برٽش ورجن آئلينڊز (UK) ڪيمين ٻيٽ (UK) ڪوراسائو (Netherlands) گئاڊيلوپ (France) مارٽينڪ (France) مانٽسيرئٽ (UK) هيٽي -سانچو:Country data Navassa Island (United States) and (Haiti) پورٽو ريڪو (United States) سابا (Netherlands) سانچو:Country data Saint Barthélemy (France) Saint Martin (France) سينٽ ايوسٽائيس (Netherlands) سنٽ مارٽن (Netherlands) سانچو:Country data Turks and Caicos Islands (UK) سانچو:Country data US Virgin Islands (United States)
ٻوليون	English Spanish French Dutch French Creoles English Creoles Dutch Creoles Spanish Creoles Papiamento Caribbean Hindustani Indigenous languages
ٽائم زون	UTC−05:00 to UTC−04:00
انٽرنيٽ TLD	Multiple
ڪالنگ ڪوڊ	Multiple
وڏا شهر	Santo Domingo Havana Port-au-Prince San Juan Port of Spain Kingston Santiago de Cuba Santiago de los Caballeros Nassau Camagüey Cap-Haïtien
UN M49 code	029 – Caribbean 419 – Latin America 019 – Americas 001 – World

The West Indies is an island subregion of the Americas, surrounded by the North Atlantic Ocean and the Caribbean Sea, which comprises 13 independent island countries and 19 dependencies in three archipelagos: the Greater Antilles, the Lesser Antilles, and the Lucayan Archipelago.

The subregion includes all the islands in the Antilles, in addition to The Bahamas and the Turks and Caicos Islands, which are in the North Atlantic Ocean. The term is often interchangeable with "Caribbean", although the latter may also include coastal regions of Central and South American mainland nations, including Mexico, Belize, Honduras, Panama, Colombia, Venezuela, French Guiana, Guyana, and Suriname, as well as the Atlantic island nation of Bermuda, all of which are culturally related but geographically distinct from the three main island groups.

West Indies as seen from space at night, 2012