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The Lesser Antilles ( also known as the Caribbees ) are a group of islands in the Caribbean Sea . Most form a long , partly volcanic island arc between the Greater Antilles to the north - west and the continent of South America . The islands form the eastern boundary of the Caribbean Sea with the ___MASK96___ . Together , the Lesser Antilles and the Greater Antilles compose the Antilles ( or the Caribbean in its narrowest definition ). When combined with the Lucayan Archipelago , all three are known as the West Indies . ___MASK55___ is an island country in the Lesser Antilles island arc , in the southern portion of the Windward Islands , which lie at the southern end of the eastern border of the Caribbean Sea where the latter meets the Atlantic Ocean . The country is also known simply as Saint Vincent . The Greater Antilles is a grouping of the larger islands in the Caribbean Sea : ___MASK70___ , Hispaniola ( containing Haiti and the Dominican Republic ), Puerto Rico , Jamaica , and the Cayman Islands . The Greater Antilles constitute over 90 % of the land mass of the entire West Indies , as well as over 90 % of its population , with the balance made of the archipelago of the Lesser Antilles , which is a chain of islands to the east ( running north - south and encompassing the eastern edge of the Caribbean Sea where it meets the ___MASK96___ ) and south ( running east - west off the northern coast of South America ). The Caribbean ( or ) is a region that consists of the Caribbean Sea , its islands ( some surrounded by the Caribbean Sea and some bordering both the Caribbean Sea and the North ___MASK96___ ) and the surrounding coasts . The region is southeast of the Gulf of Mexico and the North American mainland , east of Central America , and north of South America . The Buccament River is a river in the southwest of Saint Vincent . It rises on the western slopes of Grand Bonhomme , flowing west to reach the Caribbean Sea close to the town of Layou . Central America is the southernmost , isthmian portion of the North American continent , which connects with South America on the southeast . Central America is bordered by ___MASK45___ to the north , ___MASK7___ to the southeast , the Caribbean Sea to the east , and the Pacific Ocean to the west . Central America consists of seven countries : Belize , ___MASK13___ , El Salvador , Honduras , Nicaragua , Costa Rica and Panama . The combined population of Central America is between 41 , 739 , 000 ( 2009 estimate ) and 42 , 688 , 190 ( 2012 estimate ). ___MASK45___ (, modern Nahuatl ), officially the United Mexican States , is a federal republic in the southern half of North America . It is bordered to the north by the ___MASK76___ ; to the south and west by the Pacific Ocean ; to the southeast by ___MASK13___ , Belize , and the Caribbean Sea ; and to the east by the Gulf of ___MASK45___ . Covering almost two million square kilometers ( over 760 , 000 sq mi ), ___MASK45___ is the sixth largest country in the Americas by total area and the 13th largest independent nation in the world . With an estimated population of over 120 million , it is the eleventh most populous country and the most populous Spanish - speaking country in the world while being the second most populous country in Latin America . ___MASK45___ is a federation comprising 31 states and a federal district that is also its capital and most populous city . Other metropolises include Guadalajara , Monterrey , Puebla , Toluca , Tijuana and León . ___MASK70___ , officially the Republic of ___MASK70___ , is a country comprising the island of ___MASK70___ as well as Isla de la Juventud and several minor archipelagos . ___MASK70___ is located in the northern Caribbean where the Caribbean Sea , the Gulf of Mexico , and the ___MASK96___ meet . It is south of both the U . S . state of Florida and the Bahamas , west of Haiti , and north of Jamaica . Havana is the largest city and capital ; other major cities include Santiago de ___MASK70___ and Camagüey . ___MASK70___ is the largest island in the Caribbean , with an area of , and the second - most populous after Hispaniola , with over 11 million inhabitants . The ___MASK96___ is the second largest of the world ' s oceans with a total area of about . It covers approximately 20 percent of the Earth ' s surface and about 29 percent of its water surface area . It separates the " Old World " from the " New World ". The Caribbean Sea is a sea of the ___MASK96___ in the tropics of the Western Hemisphere . It is bounded by Mexico and Central America to the west and south west , to the north by the Greater Antilles starting with Cuba , to the east by the Lesser Antilles , and to the south by the north coast of South America . Grand Bonhomme is a mountain in the south of the island of Saint Vincent in ___MASK55___ . It rises to a height of . A sea is a large body of salt water that is surrounded in whole or in part by land . More broadly , " the sea " is the interconnected system of Earth ' s salty , oceanic waters  considered as one global ocean or as several principal oceanic divisions . The sea moderates Earth ' s climate and has important roles in the water cycle , ___MASK100___ cycle , and nitrogen cycle . Although the sea has been traveled and explored since prehistory , the modern scientific study of the sea  oceanography  dates broadly to the British " Challenger " expedition of the 1870s . The sea is conventionally divided into up to five large oceanic sections  including the International Hydrographic Organization ' s four named oceans ( the Atlantic , Pacific , Indian , and Arctic ) and the Southern Ocean ; smaller , second - order sections , such as the Mediterranean , are known as " seas ".