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Lesser Antilles

Island arc in the Caribbean Sea

PlacearchipelagoQ93259

Also known as Caribbees · Small Antilles · the Lesser Antilles · the Small Antilles

Country: Antigua and Barbuda
, Barbados
, Venezuela
+12 more
Area: 14,364 km²
Elevation: 1,467 m
Located in/on physical feature: Caribbean Sea
, Caribbean

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The Lesser Antilles is a group of islands at the edge of the Caribbean Sea, forming part of the West Indies in the Caribbean region of the Americas. They are distinguished from the larger islands of the Greater Antilles to the west. They form an arc which begins east of Puerto Rico at the archipelago of the Virgin Islands, swings southeast through the Leeward and Windward Islands towards South America, and turns westward through the Leeward Antilles along the Venezuelan coast.

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14.0000, -61.0000OpenStreetMap ↗

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