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Which Islands Make Up The Greater Antilles
Which Islands Make Up The Greater Antilles
Which Islands Make Up The Greater Antilles
Greater Antilles, the four largest islands of the Antilles—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.
The Lesser Antilles, including the Virgin Islands, Anguilla, Saint Kitts and Nevis, Antigua and Barbuda,
Montserrat, Guadeloupe, Dominica, Martinique, Saint Lucia, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines,
Barbados, and Grenada; and the isolated island groups of the North American continental shelf—The
Bahamas and the Turks and Caicos Islands—and those of the South American shelf, including Trinidad
and Tobago, Aruba, Curaçao, and Bonaire. (Bermuda, although physiographically not a part of the West
Indies, has common historical and cultural ties with the other islands and is often included in definitions
of the region.)