Lesser Antilles

Lesser Antilles Kleine Antillen  (Dutch) Petites Antilles  (French) Antiyas Minores  (Papiamento) Antillas Menores  (Spanish)
Region of the Caribbean
Location within the Caribbean.
Region	Caribbean
Island States	21 Anguilla Antigua and Barbuda Aruba Barbados Bonaire British Virgin Islands Caribbean Netherlands Curaçao Dominica Grenada Guadeloupe Martinique Montserrat Saint Barthélemy Saint Kitts and Nevis Saint Lucia Saint Martin Saint Vincent and the Grenadines Sint Maarten Trinidad and Tobago United States Virgin Islands
Area
• Total	13,012 km2 (5,024 sq mi)
Population  (2009)
• Total	3,735,636
• Density	290/km2 (740/sq mi)
Demonym	Lesser Antillean
Time zone	UTC−4 (AST)
• Summer (DST)	UTC−3 (ADT)

Location of the Lesser Antilles (green) in comparison to the rest of the Caribbean.

The Lesser Antilles (also known as the Caribbees) are a group of islands between the eastern edge of the Caribbean Sea and the western Atlantic Ocean. They are east and south of the Greater Antilles. Some of the islands are also just off the northern coast of South America. Unlike the Greater Antilles, which are made up of continental rock, the Lesser Antilles, are mostly young volcanic or coral islands.