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*”an TIL eeze”*
(do as you please)
(do it at ease)
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/ˌkærᵻˈbiːən/
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/kəˈrɪbiən/
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*ANTILLES*
*group of islands in the ‘caribbean region’*
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*’CARIBBEAN ISLANDS’*
*WIKI-LIST*
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(‘antilles’ refers to the ‘islands’ in the ‘caribbean region’)
(the ‘caribbean region’ is made up of these islands + the ‘caribbean sea’)
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(the caribbean is a region that consists of…)
*the ‘caribbean sea’*
*its ‘islands’*
(some surrounded by the ‘caribbean sea’)
(others bordering both the ‘caribbean sea’ + the ‘north atlantic ocean’)
*the surrounding coasts*
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(the region is southeast of the ‘gulf of mexico’ + the ‘north american mainland’)
(east of ‘central america’)
(north of ‘south america’)
(situated largely on the ‘caribbean plate’, the region comprises more than 700 ‘islands’ / ‘islets’ / ‘reefs’ / ‘cays’)
(these ‘islands’ generally form ‘island arcs’ that delineate the ‘eastern’ + ‘northern’ edges of the ‘caribbean sea’)
(the ‘caribbean islands’, consisting of the ‘greater antilles’ on the ‘north’ + the ‘lesser antilles’ on the ‘south’ + ‘east’ (including the ‘leeward antilles’), are part of the somewhat larger west indies grouping, which also includes the ‘lucayan archipelago’ (comprising ‘the bahamas’ + ‘turks + caicos islands’) north of the ‘greater antilles’ + ‘caribbean sea’)
(in a wider sense, the mainland countries of (‘belize’ / ‘guyana’ / ‘suriname’ / ‘french guiana’) are often included due to their ‘political’ + ‘cultural’ ties with the region)
(geopolitically, the ‘caribbean islands’ are usually regarded as a subregion of ‘north america’ and are organized into ’30 territories’ including (‘sovereign states’ / ‘overseas departments’ / ‘dependencies’))
(from ’15 december 1954′ — ’10 october 2010′, there was a country known as the ‘netherlands antilles’ composed of 5 states, all of which were ‘dutch dependencies’)
(from ‘3 january 1958′ — ’31 may 1962′, there was also a short-lived country called the ”federation’ of the ‘west indies” composed of ’10 english-speaking caribbean territories’, all of which were then ‘british dependencies’)
(the ‘west indies’ cricket team continues to represent many of those ‘nations’)
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(/ænˈtɪliːz/; Antilles [ɑ̃.tij] in French; Antillas in Spanish; Antillen in Dutch and Antilhas in Portuguese)
(the Antilles are an archipelago bordered by the Caribbean Sea to the south and west, the Gulf of Mexico to the northwest, and the Atlantic Ocean to the north and east)
(the Antillean islands are divided into two smaller groupings: the Greater Antilles and the Lesser Antilles)
The Greater Antilles includes the larger islands of Cuba, Jamaica, Puerto Rico, Hispaniola (subdivided into Haiti and the Dominican Republic) and the Cayman Islands.
The Lesser Antilles contains the northerly Leeward Islands, the southeasterly Windward Islands, and the Leeward Antilles just north of Venezuela.
The Lucayan Archipelago (consisting of the Bahamas and Turks and Caicos Islands), though part of the West Indies, are generally not included among the Antillean islands.
(geographically, the Antillean islands are generally considered a subregion of North America)
(culturally speaking, Cuba, the Dominican Republic, and Puerto Rico – and sometimes the whole of the Antilles – are included in Latin America although some sources avoid this socio-economic oversimplification by using the phrase “Latin America and the Caribbean” instead (see Latin America, “In Contemporary Usage”))
(in terms of ‘geology’, the ‘greater antilles’ are made up of ‘continental rock’, as distinct from the “lesser antilles”, which are mostly young ‘volcanic’ or ‘coral’ islands)
BONAIRE
(“special municipality” of the netherlands)
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