The Greater Antilles include Cuba, Hispaniola which is comprised of Haiti and the Dominican Republic, Jamaica, and Puerto Rico. Those are the four largest islands in the northwestern section of the Caribbean Sea.
The "Leeward Islands" (northerly portion from the British Virgin Islands to Dominica) and the "Windward Islands" (southerly portion from Martinque to Trinidad). These islands, located in the Caribbean Sea, are collectively referred to as "The Lesser Antilles". The Greater Antilles, The Lesser Antilles, and the Bahamas. the Greater Antilles, the Lesser Antilles, and the Bahamas. The Bahamas, The Greater Antilles, And the Lesser Antilles. The Bahamas, the Greater Antilles, Lesser Antilles, and the Leeward. These are all the island groups: Windward Islands, Leeward Islands, Greater Antilles, Lesser Antilles and the Netherland Antilles.
The islands that make up the Greater Antilles are Cuba, Jamaica, Hispaniola (Haiti and Dominican Republic), and Puerto Rico. Overall there are four islands.
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The Antilles refers to the islands forming the greater part of the West Indies in the Caribbean Sea.They are divided into two major groups:The "Greater Antilles" to the north including the larger islands of Cuba, Jamaica, Hispaniola (Haiti and the Dominican Republic), and Puerto Rico;and the smaller "Lesser Antilles" on the southeast, comprising the northerly Leeward Islands, the southeasterly Windward Islands, and the Leeward Antilles just north of Venezuela.
The four islands that make up the Greater Antilles are Puerto Rico, Cuba, Jamaica, and Hispaniola.
Per Brittanica Online Encylcopedia, the Greater Antilles is the geographical term given to the four (4), not five (5), largest islands of the Antilles. The islands constituting the Greater Antilles are as follows: Cuba, Hispaniola, Jamaica, and Puerto Rico.
The Greater Antilles, the Lesser Antilles, and the Bahamas.
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"Antilles" in French refers to the group of islands located in the Caribbean Sea, specifically the Lesser Antilles and Greater Antilles. It can also refer to the residents or culture of these islands.
Hispaniola is in the group of islands known as the Greater Antilles.
The Greater Antilles and the Lesser Antilles