Traditionally, there have been three groupings in the West Indies: The Greater Antilles, the Windward Islands, and the Leeward Islands.
The Greater Antilles are the four largest islands of Cuba, Jamaica, Hispaniola and Puerto Rico. Hispaniola is divided between the nations of Haiti and the Dominican Republic.
The much smaller Windward and Leeward islands all lie south and east of the Greater Antilles, an archipelago extending like links in a chain from the several Virgin Islands in the north down to Grenada. Various islands in this group have been sometimes been called Windward Islands, and other times defined as Leeward Islands, so the distinction is not always significant. Some of the islands in this archipelago include Barbados, Martinique, Antigua, St. Kitts-Nevis, Guadeloupe, St. Lucia, Dominica, and St Vincent, among others.
The Dutch islands of Aruba, Bonaire, and Curacao, along with the nation of Trinidad and Tobago, are all very close to the coast of South America, and frequently regarded more as parts of that continent than as parts of the West Indies. Many of these classifications are imprecise, affected as much by political and cultural factors as by geography.
well all of the west indies is not an archipelogo but the bahhamas are an archapelago
No the West Indies are the group of islands in the Caribbean.
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West Indies are the islands in the Caribbean.
The Caribbean includes that ocean as well as the islands within it; the term West Indies refers only to the islands.
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Aruba, Bermuda and Haiti.
Jamaica, Barbados, Dominica, etc.
well all of the west indies is not an archipelogo but the bahhamas are an archapelago
No the West Indies are the group of islands in the Caribbean.
The West Indies are a group of islands nestled between the Caribbean Sea and the Atlantic Ocean The islands of the West Indies are the Bahamas, and the Greater and Lesser Antilles.
The island in the Caribbean region are often referd to as the West Indies because 'West Indies' is the collective name of these islands.
The island in the Caribbean region are often referd to as the West Indies because 'West Indies' is the collective name of these islands.
Anguilla is one of the flatter islands in the West Indies. It is made from coral and has a few rolling hills but most of the island is just a few feet above sea level.
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Dominican Republic, Haiti and Grand Bahamas.
the west indiesAnswerThe West indies is the name given to the islands, not the sea. The Sea of the Antilles was a former name for the Caribbean Sea.