Lesser Antilles

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Lesser Antilles Lesser Antilles， Spanish: Pequeñas Antillas ）, on Caribbean West Indies in the antilles islands The islands in the east and south are in circular arc shape. They are also called Caribbean islands 。

The Lesser Antilles is an island group located in the east and south of the Antilles in the West Indies of the Caribbean Sea. The islands are in an arc shape. The Lesser Antilles includes Virgin Islands 、 Leeward Islands 、 Windward Islands and Venezuela Many islands to the north.

Chinese name: Lesser Antilles
Foreign name: Lesser Antilles

Spanish: Pequeñas Antillas
geographical position: Central Antilles, West Indies, Caribbean Sea

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The inhabitants of the Lesser Antilles Islands are mainly black and mixed race people. English is spoken on most islands. The eastern island group is south-north, divided into internal and external columns island arc , inner arc is island , the outer arc is limestone island; climate Damp heat , with abundant rainfall and hurricanes. The east-west trend of the southern island group is Andes The extension of the northern branch is mostly low hills or mountains; except Trinidad There is less precipitation outside, and the dry and wet seasons are distinct. The economy is dominated by agriculture and tourism. The main crops are sugarcane Banana 、 Island cotton , kudzu, etc. Small scale livestock farming And fishing. The industry is relatively weak, mainly including refine sugar , wine making cotton ginning 、 Fruit processing , petroleum refining, etc.

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Caribbean Long arc shaped islands in the middle. From the north Virgin Islands , extending southward to Trinidad , and then in an east-west direction from Margarita （ Margarita ）Island extends to Venezuela Off the coast of the North Sea Aruba （ Aruba ）Island, accounting for West Indies 6% of the total land area. since Spain Since the colonial period, the Little Antilles archipelago It's divided into Balavento（ Barlovento ）、 Windward Islands （ Windward Islands ）And Sota Vento（ Sotavento ）、 Leeward Islands （ Leeward Islands ）Two parts. Windward Islands include dominica reach Grenada A long north-south line Island chain ； from Guadeloupe The east-west island chain extending from the island to Virgin is Leeward Islands. In fact, both groups of islands are affected by trade wind But the trade wind only brings rain to the first group of islands, and the leeward group is dry. But the British administrative management The territory within the Windward Islands is named Leeward Islands and Windward Islands. Netherlands Antilles（ Netherlands Antilles ）It consists of two groups of Dutch islands in the Lesser Antilles.

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The archipelago is the most divided archipelago in the world, with 15 countries occupying it. among Sovereign state There are 8 (all over the country): Saint Kitts and Nevis 、 Antigua and Barbuda 、 dominica 、 Saint Lucia 、 Saint Vincent and the Grenadines 、 Barbados 、 Grenada 、 Trinidad and Tobago , (partially) 2: Puerto Rico (American Free State) Venezuela ； There are 5 colonies: British Virgin Islands （ britain ）, French Guadeloupe (France), French St. Barthelemy Island (France) saint martin (France) Sint Maarten （ Netherlands ）、 Montserrat （ britain ）、 Martinique (France).

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The islands and Caribbean And other countries jointly support the establishment of University of the West Indies 。 Two of the three main campuses of the University of the West Indies are located in Trinidad and Tobago Saint Augustine and Barbados Kev Hill of.

The University of the West Indies is an autonomous university jointly supported by 16 English speaking countries in the Caribbean Regional universities , the only two in the world jointly built by multiple countries regional university One (the other is Asia Of University of the South Pacific ）。 The goal of the University of the West Indies is to "unlock the potential for economic and cultural growth".

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