Caribbean Fact Sheet

Name                Capital           Land Area    Population   Currency               Language(s)

Anguilla              The Valley     35 sq mi       12,000         Eastern Carib $   English

Antigua/Barbuda   St. John’s    108 sq mi     68,000         EC Dollar             English

Aruba            Oranjestad     70 sq mi      120,000    Aruban Florin/US $  English/Dutch

Bonaire          Kralendijk      111 sq mi     14,000     Neth Ant Guilder      Dutch/English

Curacao        Willemsted     171 sq mi    135,000    Neth Ant Guilder      English/Dutch 

[All "Dutch" islands have no capital gains taxes!  Property taxes are about 0.5%]

Barbados          Bridgetown      166 sq mi     270,000   Barbados Dollar         English

[Approved small businesses tax rate 15%; property tax to be reduced from 7.5 to 2.5% for 2007]

Belize                Belmopan        8,900 sq mi  300,000    Belize Dollar              English

Cayman Islands [Duty on real estate purchases; otherwise, no taxes of any kind!]

(if you're wondering most gov't revenue is derived from import duties)  

Grand Cayman   Georgetown    100 sq mi     45,000     Cayman Dollar          English 

Cayman Brac                            14 sq mi       1,600

Little Cayman                            10 sq mi       170

Costa Rica           San Jose       19,725 sq mi  4.3 million         Colon            Spanish

Dominican Rep    Santo Domingo   18,715 sm   9 million          Peso             Spanish

[Don't forget to look into forming a company here to purchase - helps avoid

inheritance issues and can save transfer $ later!]

Dominica             Roseau          289 sq mi       70,000        EC Dollar       English

[No capital gains taxes]

Grenada              St. Georges    133 sq mi      102,000       EC Dollar      English

Guadeloupe         Basse-Terre   657 sq mi       440,000      Euro              French 

French Guyana    Georgetown   83,044 sm      750,000     Guyana Dollar     French

Haiti                    Port-au-Prince 10,714 sm    8.5 million   Gourde      French/English

Honduras            Tegucialpa     43,278 sq mi   7.3 million   Lempira           Spanish

Jamaica               Kingston        4,244 sq mi     2.6 million   Jamaican Dollar  English 

Martinique           Fort-de-France 425 sq mi    426,000       Euro              French    

Mexico                Mexico City     758,249 sm 109 million   Peso               Spanish

Nicaragua            Managua      50,193 sq mi   5.7 million    Cordoba        Spanish

Nevis                   Charlestown  36 sq mi         11,000        EC Dollar       English

St Kitts                 Basseterre    68 sq mi         46,000        EC Dollar       English

Panama           Panama City  29,157 sq mi  3.3 million   Balboa/US $  Spanish/English

Puerto Rico      San Juan       3,514 sq mi    3.9 million    US Dollar     Spanish/English

US Virgin Islands:

St Croix               Christiansted    84 sq mi        54,000      US Dollar       English

St Thomas            Charlotte Amalie    32 sm     51,000      US Dollar

St John                                             20 sm        4,200       US Dollar

[No State income taxes for US residents - similar to Florida]

St Lucia                Castries        238 sq mi       156,000      EC Dollar      English

SXM area  [Dutch side of SXM – no property or capital gains taxes]:    

St Maarten     Philipsburg    16 sq mi      40,000      Naf//US Dollar    English/Dutch

St Martin        Marigot        21 sq mi      33,000     Euro/US Dollar     French/English

St Barts          Gustavia        8 sq mi       6,900        Euro                    French/English

Saba             The Bottom  5 sq mi        1,400       Neth Ant Guilder  Dutch/English

St Eustatius     Oranjestad    8 sq mi       2,300        Neth Ant Guilder  Dutch/English

St Vincent and the Grenadines:

St Vincent               Kingstown  133 sq mi     103,000     EC Dollar         English

Grenadines (600 islands)                                                  EC Dollar         English

Tobago                  Scarborough  116 sq mi     55,000      Trin/Tobago Dollar  English 

Trinidad                 Port of Spain  1,864 sq mi  1.3 million  Trin/Tobago Dollar  English

British Virgin Islands:                                        23,500      US Dollar          English

Tortola                   Road Town   24 sq mi                                            

Virgin Gorda                                 8 sq mi            

Anegada                                     15 sq mi         200

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