No. They are completely different places.
French same as in France
Yes, the West Indies are many Islands in the Carribean Sea.
No, not from researched items.
Yes, It is. We share the same common culture as West Indies.
Violent tropical storms in the western Pacific Ocean are called Typhoons. The same type of storm in the West Indies and Caribbean Sea are called hurricanes.
dominican republic and haiti
Yes, effective May 29, 2013, as the same-sex marriage law passed by the French Parliament on April 23, 2013 explicitly applies there.
"west" is "ouest" in French, pronounced about the same as the English word.
Canada;Wallis and Futuna (imminent);New Caledonia (imminent); andFrench Polynesia (imminent).
Clifford Roach scored the first century for West Indies in Test Cricket. He scored this century against England in the 1st Test of 1929-1930 series. He also became the first to score double century for West Indies in the third Test of the same series.
Christopher Columbus gave the West Indies that name because long ago they thought the world was flat. He decided to go to India but travel West . On his journey ,when he finally saw land he thought it was India but the people there were Arawak went back to Europe he told this of his discovery and since he traveled west to try to get to India but failed ,they called it WEST INDIES/ WEST INDIA its kind of the same thing.
On May 26 th, 2012, the 2nd test of the West Indies tour of England, Darren Sammy, West Indies captain scored 106, and West Indies slowly got all out for 370. In the next innings, the same day, England captain, Andrew Strauss scored 102, and is now still not out at stumps.