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Leeward Antilles
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Within Vinony's link graph, Leeward Antilles is referenced by 207 other articles, and connects out to Caribbean Sea, Caribbean and Netherlands Antilles.
The entry is geolocated on the map in isle.
It is catalogued under topics including Archipelagoes of the Caribbean Sea and Leeward Antilles.
Its subject is documented across 48 Wikipedia language editions.
Wikidata facts
- Part of
- Lesser Antilles
- Country
- Venezuela
- Area
- 2000
- Elevation
- 372
- Body of water
- Atlantic Ocean
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- Commons category
- Leeward Antilles
- topic's main category
- Category:Leeward Antilles
- different from
- Northwestern Hawaiian Islands
- native label
- Benedenwindse Eilanden
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Encyclopedic overview
Location of Leeward Antilles within Caribbean (light purple shading)
The Leeward Antilles (Dutch: Benedenwindse Eilanden; Spanish: islas de Sotavento) are a chain of islands in the Caribbean, specifically part of the southerly islands of the Lesser Antilles (and, in turn, the Antilles and the West Indies) along the southeastern fringe of the Caribbean Sea, just north of the Venezuelan coast of the South American mainland. The Leeward Antilles, while among the Lesser Antilles, are not to be confused with the Leeward Islands (also of the Lesser Antilles) to the northeast.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Leeward Antilles” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.