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Sailingregions in the Caribbean 

Anguilla, Antigua and Barbuda, Aruba, Barbados, Bermuda, British Virgin Islands, Cayman Islands, Cuba, Dominica, Dominican Republic, Grenada, Guadeloupe, Jamaica, Martinique, Netherlands Antilles, Puerto Rico, Saint Kitts and Nevis, Saint Lucia, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, St.Martin, The Bahamas, Trinidad and Tobago, Turks and Caicos Islands, US Virgin Islands, Venezuela 

The islands of the Caribbean Sea or West Indies are an extensive archipelago in the far west of the Atlantic Ocean, mostly strung between North and South America. The group consists of numerous small and some larger islands.
Some of the Caribbean Islands are independent and some are constituent parts of other countries. They are usually divided into two groups – Greater and Lesser Antilles. Actually the Bahamas and Turk and Caicos Islands are know as Caribbean Islands too, although they are -technically speaking - in the Atlantic Ocean.

The Greater Antilles include the larger islands – Cuba, Puerto Rico and Jamaica. The Lesser Antilles consist of smaller islands that stretch from the Virgin Islands in the north to the coast of Venezuela in the south; the northern islands are known as the Leewards and the southern are Windwards.