The region consists of the Antilles, divided into the larger Greater Antilles which bound the sea on the north, the Lesser Antilles on the south and east (including the Leeward Antilles), the Bahamas,
A map of the Caribbean Sea, showing the Greater Antilles to the north and the Lesser Antilles to the south and east. © Patrick Nouhailler from Genève, Suisse, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons

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