Title: Caribbean Landforms and Land Statistics
Headings: Caribbean Geography
Caribbean Geography
Content: Caribbean Landforms and Land Statistics
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ISLANDS, ISLETS AND CAYS: Overall the Caribbean is comprised of more than 7,000 islands. That number includes islets ( very small rocky islands ); cay's (small, low islands composed largely of coral or sand) and a few inhabited reefs: See Belize. The largest islands in the Caribbean are Cuba, Jamaica,Hispaniola ( divided into the two separate political units of Haiti and the Dominican Republic ), and Puerto Rico. THE ANTILLES: The majority of the Caribbean islands (called the West Indies) form a large arc extending eastward from the Yucatan Peninsula of Mexico and south from the Florida peninsula in the United States, ending off the northeastern coastline of South America. The Lesser Antilles, are part of the Antilles, which together with the Bahamas, the Cayman Islands, the Turks and Caicos and Greater Antilles all form the West Indies. The Lesser Antilles begin to the east of Puerto Rico.