What are 4 major islands of the Lesser Antilles?

The Windward Islands are those ranging south from Dominica (which has at times been classified as one of the Leeward Islands) to Grenada, and the Leeward Islands are those that arc generally westerly from Guadeloupe to the Virgin Islands.

What is considered the Lesser Antilles?

The Lesser Antilles: contains smaller archipelagos like the U.S. Virgin Islands, British Virgin Islands, Anguilla, Saint Kitts and Nevis, Antigua and Barbuda, Montserrat, Guadeloupe, Dominica, Martinique, Saint Lucia, Barbados, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Grenada, and Trinidad and Tobago and Aruba.

What countries are in the Greater and Lesser Antilles?

The Greater Antilles consists of the Island of Hispaniola, which is now Haiti and the Dominican Republic, Cuba, Jamaica, and Puerto Rico. The Lesser Antilles is made up of three groups of smaller islands: the Virgin Islands, Bahamas archipelago, and the Windward and Leeward Islands.

What are the countries of the Greater Antilles?

Greater Antilles, the four largest islands of the Antilles (q.v.)—Cuba, Hispaniola, Jamaica, and Puerto Rico—lying north of the Lesser Antilles chain. They constitute nearly 90 percent of the total land area of the entire West Indies.

How many countries are in the Antilles?

The Antilles consists of 13 countries and 14 dependent regions. Its largest cities include Havana, Port-au-Prince, and Santo Domingo. Cuba is located in the UTC-5 time zone, while Barbados is located in the UTC-4 time zone.

Is Puerto Rico in the Lesser Antilles?

The Greater Antilles, made up of the larger islands to the north and west, include Cuba, the Cayman Islands, Jamaica, Hispaniola (Haiti on the west and the Dominican Republic on the east) and Puerto Rico. Puerto Rico, the smallest of the four main islands, is a U.S. Commonwealth.

Is Jamaica in the Lesser Antilles?

The Antillean islands are divided into two smaller groupings: the Greater Antilles and the Lesser Antilles. The Greater Antilles includes the larger islands of the Cayman Islands, Cuba, Hispaniola (subdivided into the nations of the Dominican Republic and Haiti), Jamaica, and Puerto Rico.

What are the 2 types of Antilles?

They are divided into two major groups: the Greater Antilles, including Cuba, Hispaniola (Haiti and Dominican Republic), Jamaica, and Puerto Rico; and the Lesser Antilles, comprising all the rest of the islands.

What are the 3 islands of the Antilles?

The Caribbean islands of Aruba, Bonaire and Curaçao are the three western-most islands of the Leeward Antilles in the South Caribbean off the coast of Venezuela. They are collectively known as the ABC islands.