Why do the Lesser Antilles have Lesser in their name?

Anonymous

∙ 13y ago

Updated: 8/18/2019

in greater antilles they say greater means bigger country but lesser means smaller country look at the map and you will see that Cuba Jamaica and more are big and st lucia and more is small :) when you look you will see go on wiki and you can understand better i hope you understand

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∙ 13y ago

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