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The Lesser Antilles (German: Kleine Antillen) is the name given to the island chain in the eastern Caribbean that stretches from the Virgin Islands in the north to the Venezuelan coast. Due to the prevailing north-easterly trade winds, the Lesser Antilles can be further divided into the Windward Islands and the Leeward Islands. In English, the Windward Islands are subdivided once more, into the Leeward Islands and the Windward Islands. So one can quite expertly speak of the Leeward Islands as part of the Windward Islands and still not be wrong.
The following list assigns the islands to the individual headings and also shows which country they belong to:
Windward Islands, northern part (Leeward Islands)
- Virgin Islands (British and US)
- Anguilla (British)
- Sint Eustatius (Dutch)
- Sint Maarten – Saint-Martin (Dutch and French)
- Saint-Barthélemy (French)
- Saba (Dutch)
- Barbuda (part of Antigua and Barbuda)
- St Kitts and Nevis (independent)
- Antigua (part of Antigua and Barbuda)
- Montserrat (British)
- Guadeloupe (part of France)
- Marie-Galante (part of Guadeloupe)
- Aves (part of the Dependencias Federales of Venezuela)
- Dominica (independent)
Windward Islands, southern part
- Martinique (part of France)
- Saint Lucia (independent)
- Barbados (independent)
- Saint Vincent (part of Saint Vincent and the Grenadines)
- Grenadines (part of Saint Vincent and the Grenadines)
- Grenada (independent)
- Trinidad (independent)
- Tobago (independent)
Leeward Antilles, off the coast of Venezuela
- Isla Margarita
- Isla la Blanquilla
- Isla la Tortuga
- Isla la Orchila
- Islas los Roques
- Islas las Aves
- Bonaire (Dutch Antilles)
- Curaçao (Dutch Antilles)
- Aruba (Dutch Antilles)
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