Home›The Americas and the Caribbean›Modern AreaBrowse ByModern AreaThis page groups sacred regions by the present-day country or countries they actually fall inside. Wikipedia notes that the Holy Land "today ... chiefly overlaps with the combined areas of Israel and parts of the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan and Palestine." Browsing by modern-area lets a visitor find every sacred region that falls inside the same present-day country.FactsModern AreaSourcesComments (0)Reader Challenges (0)FactsDirectoryCategoryWell-attestedRegions 1Modern AreaFilter Results19 entriesParent RegionAllNorth America (1)United States (1)Principal TraditionAllChristianity (4)Hinduism (14)Islam (14)Maya Religion (1)Rastafari (14)Principal Tradition OfAllChristianity (4)Hinduism (14)Islam (14)Maya Religion (1)Rastafari (14)Sacred LanguagesAllArabic (14)Classic Maya (1)English (16)French (14)Haitian Creole (14)Latin (15)Sanskrit (14)Spanish (15)Yoruba (14)CapitalAllBasseterre (1)Bogotá (1)Brasília (1)Bridgetown (1)Castries (1)Havana (1)Kingston (1)Kingstown (1)Mexico City (Ciudad de Mexico) (1)Nassau (1)Ottawa (1)Port of Spain (1)Port-au-Prince (1)Roseau (1)San Juan (1)Santo Domingo (1)St. George's (1)St. John's (1)Washington, D.C. (1)Established YearAll1776 (1)1804 (1)1810 (2)1822 (1)1844 (1)1867 (1)1902 (1)1962 (2)1966 (1)1973 (1)1974 (1)1978 (1)1979 (2)1981 (1)1983 (1)Establishment StatusAllDisestablished (5)No Establishment (11)Privileged Never Established (3)Sovereignty StatusAllSovereign UN member state (18)Unincorporated territory of another sovereign state (1)Show ResultsBrowseCompareAntigua and BarbudaModern Area1 entryBahamasModern Area1 entryBarbadosModern Area1 entryBrazilModern Area1 entryCanadaModern Area1 entryColombiaModern Area1 entryCubaModern Area1 entryDominicaModern Area1 entryDominican RepublicModern Area1 entryGrenadaModern Area1 entryHaitiModern Area1 entryJamaicaModern Area1 entryMexicoModern Area2 entriesPuerto RicoModern Area1 entrySaint Kitts and NevisModern Area1 entrySaint LuciaModern Area1 entrySaint Vincent and the GrenadinesModern Area1 entryTrinidad and TobagoModern Area1 entryUnited StatesModern Area4 entriesSources1. Divinity Atlas Directory Taxonomy, First Edition Category TreeCategory: RegionsComments (0)No comments yet. Be the first to share a thought.Sign in to join the discussion.Reader Challenges (0)No disputes yet. Spotted an error or a better source? Open the first one.Sign in to dispute this or suggest a correction.