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Archipelago bordering the north and east of the Caribbean Sea

For other uses, seeAntilles (disambiguation).

TheWest Indies (red), which includes the Antilles and theLucayan Archipelago.

TheAntilles^[1] is anarchipelago bordered by theCaribbean Sea to the south and west, theGulf of Mexico to the northwest, and theAtlantic Ocean to the north and east.

The Antillean islands are divided into two smaller groupings: theGreater Antilles and theLesser Antilles. The Greater Antilles includes theCayman Islands and larger islands ofCuba,Hispaniola (subdivided into the nations of theDominican Republic andHaiti) andNavassa Island,Jamaica, andPuerto Rico. The Lesser Antilles contains the northerlyLeeward Islands and the southeasterlyWindward Islands as well as theLeeward Antilles just north ofVenezuela. TheLucayan Archipelago (consisting ofThe Bahamas and theTurks and Caicos Islands), though a part of theWest Indies, is generally not included among the Antillean islands.^[2]

Geographically, the Antillean islands are generally considered a subregion ofNorth America. Culturally speaking, Cuba, the Dominican Republic, and Puerto Rico – and sometimes the whole of the Antilles – are included inLatin America, although some sources use the phrase "Latin America and the Caribbean" instead (seeLatin America, "In Contemporary Usage").^[3]

In terms ofgeology, the Greater Antilles are mostly made up ofcontinental rock accreted on theNorth American Plate from relative movement of theCaribbean Plate. The Lesser Antilles are mostly youngvolcanic islands created by theLesser Antilles subduction zone.

Background

Map of Antilles / Caribbean in 1843

The wordAntilles originated in the period before theEuropean colonization of the Americas,Antilia being one of those mysterious lands which figured on themedieval charts, sometimes as anarchipelago, sometimes as continuous land of greater or lesser extent, its location fluctuating in mid-ocean between theCanary Islands andIndia.^[4]

After the 1492 arrival ofChristopher Columbus's expedition in what was later called the West Indies, the European powers realized that the dispersed lands constituted an extensive archipelago in the Caribbean Sea and theGulf of Mexico. The Antilles were called multiple names before their current name became the norm. Early Spanish visitors called them theWindward Islands (today having anarrower definition). They were also called theForward Islands by 18th-century British.^[5] Thereafter, the termAntilles was commonly assigned to the formation, and "Sea of the Antilles" became a common alternative name for the Caribbean Sea in various European languages.^{[citation needed]}

Countries and territories

Main article:List of Caribbean islands

NASA image of the Antilles

Lucayan Archipelago

Main article:Lucayan Archipelago

Greater Antilles

Main article:Greater Antilles

Lesser Antilles

Main article:Lesser Antilles

Los Roques,Venezuela,Lesser Antilles

Leeward Antilles

Main article:Leeward Antilles

Leeward Islands

Main article:Leeward Islands

Windward Islands

Main article:Windward Islands

Other islands

See also

Antillia

References

^(/ænˈtɪliːz/;Antillean Creole:Antiy;Spanish:Antillas;French:Antilles;Dutch:Antillen;Haitian Creole:Antiy;Papiamento:Antiyas;Jamaican Patois:Antiliiz)
^Some sources, such as Encarta in Spanish, include the Bahamas in the Antilles.[1]Archived 2009-10-04 at theWayback Machine(in Spanish).Archived 2009-10-31.
^"85.04.04: The Geophysics and Cultural Aspects of the Greater Antilles".teachersinstitute.yale.edu.Archived from the original on 2018-03-23. Retrieved2017-11-21.
^ One or more of the preceding sentences incorporates text from a publication now in thepublic domain: Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "Antilles".Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 2 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. p. 126.
^Kitchin, Thomas (1778).The Present State of the West-Indies: Containing an Accurate Description of What Parts Are Possessed by the Several Powers in Europe. London: R. Baldwin. p. 5.Archived from the original on 2015-02-21. Retrieved2013-08-30.

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Greater
Antilles

Hispaniola	Dominican Republic Haiti

Lesser
Antilles

Leeward
Islands

Anguilla
Antigua and Barbuda
Guadeloupe
- La Désirade
- Les Saintes
- Marie-Galante
Montserrat
Saba^{^*}
Saint Barthélemy
Saint Kitts and Nevis
Sint Eustatius^{^*}

Saint Martin^{^}	Collectivity of Saint Martin Sint Maarten
Virgin Islands	British Virgin Islands U.S. Virgin Islands

Southern
Caribbean

Leeward
Antilles

Insular Venezuela
- Federal Dependencies
- Nueva Esparta

ABC islands	Aruba Bonaire^* Curaçao

Windward
Islands

Barbados^†
Trinidad and Tobago^†

Lucayan
Archipelago

Turks and Caicos Islands

Aves Island
San Andrés and Providencia
- Bajo Nuevo Bank^~
- Serranilla Bank^~

Caribbean
continental
zone

Quintana Roo
- Cozumel

Central America	Belize Honduras Bay Islands Izabal Limón Corn Islands North Caribbean Coast South Caribbean Coast Panama
South America	Colombian Caribbean Venezuelan Caribbean

Wider
groupings
may include:

Yucatán Peninsula	Campeche Petén Yucatán
The Guianas	Amapá French Guiana Venezuelan Guayana Guyana Guayana Esequiba^ǂ Tigri Area^ǂ Suriname

N.B.: Territories initalics are parts of transregional sovereign states or non-sovereign dependencies.

^{^}These three form theSSS islands that with the ABC islands comprise theDutch Caribbean, of which^*theBES islands are not directKingdom constituents but subsumed with the country of theNetherlands.

^†Physiographically, thesecontinental islands are not part of the volcanic Windward Islands arc, although sometimes grouped with them culturally and politically.

^ǂDisputed territories administered byGuyana.^~Disputed territories administered byColombia.

^#Bermuda is an isolatedNorth Atlantic oceanic island, physiographically not part of the Lucayan Archipelago, Antilles, Caribbean Sea nor North American continental nor South American continental islands. It is grouped with theNorthern American region, but occasionally also with the Caribbean region culturally.

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