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The Lesser Antilles are part of the Antilles, which together with the Bahamas form the West Indies. They are a long chain of islands, wrapped around the eastern end of the Caribbean Sea on the boundary with the Atlantic Ocean. The Lesser Antilles are (generally from north to south): the US Virgin Islands, British Virgin Islands, Anguilla (Br.), Saint Kitts and Nevis, Antigua and Barbuda, Montserrat (Br.), Guadeloupe (Fr.), Dominica, Martinique (Fr.), Saint Lucia, BarbadosBarbados is an island nation situated on the boundary of the Caribbean Sea and the Atlantic Ocean. One of the Lesser Antilles, it lies to the east of the main chain of islands. History Main article: History of Barbados Barbados was uninhabited when first, Saint Vincent and the GrenadinesSaint Vincent and the Grenadines is an independent sovereign state of the Caribbean, part of the Commonwealth of Nations. Saint Vincent and the Grenadines ( In Detail) (Full size) National motto: Pax et justitia Latin: Peace and justice Official language, GrenadaThis article is about the Caribbean nation. For alternate meanings, see Grenada (disambiguation Grenada is an island nation in the Caribbean Sea including the southern Grenadines, is the second smallest independent country in the Western Hemisphere (after, Trinidad and TobagoFor other uses of the word Trinidad, see Trinidad (disambiguation). The Republic of Trinidad and Tobago is a nation located in the southern Caribbean Sea, off the coast of Venezuela. It consists of two main islands, Trinidad and Tobago, and many smaller i, the islands off the coast of VenezuelaThe Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela (Spanish: Republica Bolivariana de Venezuela "Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela") is a country in northern South America. 1 It borders the Caribbean Sea and the Atlantic Ocean to the north, Guyana to the east, Brazil to, the Netherlands AntillesThe Netherlands Antilles ( Dutch: Nederlandse Antillen , previously known as the Netherlands West Indies are part of the Lesser Antilles and consist of two groups of islands in the Caribbean Sea that form an autonomous part of the Kingdom of the Netherlan and ArubaAruba is an island in the Caribbean Sea, just a short distance north of the Venezuelan Paraguana Peninsula, and it forms a part of the Kingdom of the Netherlands. It is very dry, with little of the tropical vegetation that many expect in the Caribbean. (Neth.).

The islands of BonaireCuracao and Bonaire are two Caribbean islands Bonaire (pop. 12,000) is an island in the Netherlands Antilles. Together with Aruba and Curacao it forms a group referred to as the ABC islands. Exploiting its natural topography, Bonaire has been a major supp and Curaçao, Sint Eustatius, Saba and the southern part of Saint Martin, form the Netherlands Antilles, with the first two located off the Venezuelan coast and the latter three located in the northeastern corner of the Caribbean.

The Lesser Antilles can be divided into the Windward in the south and the Leeward Islands in the north. However, the Netherlands Antilles are divided into the groups in the northeast and the southwest, with different naming conventions, see Netherlands Antilles.

More westward are the Cayman Islands (Br.) and the Turks and Caicos Islands (Br.).