Lesser Antilles and Lucayan Archipelago

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Caribbean regional grouping geographical region

The Lesser Antilles and Lucayan Archipelago is a major Caribbean regional grouping that encompasses the chain of smaller islands curving from the Virgin Islands to Trinidad along with the Bahamian and Turks and Caicos island groups in the Atlantic.

Observed surface forms (1)

Surface form	Occurrences
Parts of the Caribbean	1

Statements (51)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	Caribbean regional grouping ⓘ geographical region ⓘ
borderedBy	Atlantic Ocean ⓘ Caribbean Sea ⓘ Greater Antilles ⓘ
containsDependentTerritory	Anguilla ⓘ British Virgin Islands ⓘ Montserrat ⓘ Turks and Caicos Islands ⓘ U.S. Virgin Islands ⓘ surface form: United States Virgin Islands
containsOverseasRegionOrCollectivity	Aruba ⓘ Bonaire ⓘ Curaçao ⓘ Guadeloupe ⓘ Martinique ⓘ Saint Barthélemy ⓘ Sint Maarten ⓘ surface form: Saint Martin
containsSovereignState	Antigua and Barbuda NERFINISHED ⓘ Bahamas ⓘ Barbados NERFINISHED ⓘ Dominica NERFINISHED ⓘ Grenada ⓘ Saint Kitts and Nevis NERFINISHED ⓘ Saint Lucia NERFINISHED ⓘ Saint Vincent and the Grenadines NERFINISHED ⓘ Trinidad and Tobago ⓘ
continent	North America ⓘ
extendsFrom	Virgin Islands ⓘ
extendsTo	Trinidad ⓘ
hasClimate	tropical maritime climate ⓘ
hasFeature	coral reefs ⓘ low-lying carbonate islands ⓘ volcanic islands ⓘ
hasMajorEconomicActivity	fishing ⓘ shipping ⓘ tourism ⓘ
hasSubregion	Leeward Antilles ⓘ Leeward Islands ⓘ Windward Islands ⓘ
includes	Bahamas ⓘ Lesser Antilles ⓘ Lucayan Archipelago ⓘ Turks and Caicos Islands ⓘ
locatedIn	Atlantic Ocean ⓘ Caribbean Sea ⓘ
partiallyLocatedIn	Subtropical zone ⓘ Tropical zone ⓘ
partOf	Caribbean ⓘ surface form: Caribbean region West Indies ⓘ
vulnerableTo	hurricanes ⓘ tropical storms ⓘ

Referenced by (2)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

ARIN → regionServed → Lesser Antilles and Lucayan Archipelago ⓘ

this entity surface form: Parts of the Caribbean

Bahamas → regionalGrouping → Lesser Antilles and Lucayan Archipelago ⓘ