The Antilles, the islands of this chain of Caribbean islands are divided into two groups, the Greater Antilles and the Lesser Antilles.
The islands of the Greater Antilles are: Cuba, Jamaica, Hispaniola (Haiti and the Dominican Republic), and Puerto Rico.
Those of the Lesser Antilles are: the Virgin Islands, the Leeward Islands, the Windward Islands, Barbados, Trinidad and Tobago, Curacao, and Margarita.
The Leeward Islands include Antigua and Guadeloupe; the Windward Islands include Martinique and Grenada; the Virgin Islands include Saint Thomas and Saint Croix.
The Bahamas are not part of the Antilles.
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