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Antilles - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Antilles (the same in French; Antillas in Spanish; Antillen in Dutch) refers ... Geographically, the Antilles are generally considered part of North America. ...
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The Antilles (the same in French language; Antillas in Spanish language; Antillen in Dutch language) refers to the islands forming the greater part of the Caribbean in the Caribbean Sea. The Antilles are divided into two major groups: the "Greater Antilles" to the north including the larger islands of Cuba, Jamaica, Hispaniola (Haiti and the Dominican Republic), and Puerto Rico; and the smaller "Lesser Antilles" on the southeast — comprising the northerly Leeward Islands, the southeasterly Windward Islands, and the Leeward Antilles just north of Venezuela. The Bahamas, though part of the West Indies, are generally not included among the Antillean islands. Some sources, such as Encarta in Spanish, consider the Bahamas part of the Antilles.

Geography, the Antilles are generally considered part of North America. Cuba, the Dominican Republic, and Puerto Rico – due to the prevalence of Spanish language – are included in Latin America.

In terms of geology, the Greater Antilles are made up of continental rock, as distinct from the Lesser Antilles, which are mostly young volcano or coral islands.

== Background ==

The word Antilles originated in the period before the European conquest of the New World — Antilia being one of those mysterious lands which figured on the medieval charts, sometimes as an archipelago, sometimes as continuous land of greater or lesser extent, its location fluctuating in mid-ocean between the Canary Islands and India.

After the 1492 arrival of Christopher Columbus's expedition in what was later called the West Indies, the European powers realized that the dispersed lands comprised an extensive archipelago enclosing the Caribbean Sea and the Gulf of Mexico. Thereafter, the term Antilles was commonly assigned to the formation, and "Sea of the Antilles" became a common alternate name for the Caribbean Sea in various European languages.

Greater Antilles

Cuba
Hispaniola

Dominican Republic
Haiti

Jamaica
Puerto Rico (U.S. Commonwealth (U.S. insular area))
Cayman Islands (geographical zone under Cuba)

Lesser Antilles

Anguilla (Br.)
Antigua and Barbuda
Aruba (Neth.)
Barbados
Bonaire (Neth. Ant.)
British Virgin Islands
Curaçao (Neth. Ant.)
Dominica
Grenada
Guadeloupe (Fr.), known as the French Antilles together with Martinique.
Martinique (Fr.), known as the French Antilles together with Guadeloupe.
Montserrat (Br.)
Netherlands Antilles (Neth.)
Redonda (part of Antigua and Barbuda)
Saba (Neth. Ant.)
Saint Barthélemy (Fr.)
Saint Kitts and Nevis
Saint Lucia
Saint Martin (Fr.)/ Sint Maarten (Neth. Ant.)
Saint Vincent and the Grenadines
Saint Eustatius (Neth. Ant.)
Trinidad and Tobago
U.S. Virgin Islands

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Netherlands Antilles - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Lesser Antilles - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Lesser Antilles, also known as the Caribbees, [1] are part of the Antilles, which together with the Bahamas and Greater Antilles form the West Indies.

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