Strictly speaking (according to Wikipedia), the West Indies are comprised of the Greater and Lesser Antilles and the Lucayan Archipelago.
The Lucayan Archipelago comprises the Bahamas and the Turks and Caicos Islands. The former is an independent nation; the latter are a British Overseas Territory. The archipelago forms a chain to the north of the Greater Antilles, running roughly from south–east to north–west. Its north–western extremity lies to the east of Florida.
The Greater Antilles comprise the islands of (from west to east) Cuba, Hispaniola and Puerto Rico, as well as Jamaica and the Cayman Islands to the south, and other smaller associated islands.
The Lesser Antilles form an arc on the eastern (Atlantic) side of the West Indies, from the eastern end of the Greater Antilles to the coast of South America. They are separated into (continuing in a clockwise direction) the Leeward Islands, the Windward Islands and the Leeward Antilles.
The Leeward Islands include Montserrat, Guadeloupe, Antigua and Barbuda, Saint Kitts and Nevis, Saint Martin, Anguilla, and the Virgin Islands.
The Windward Islands include Barbados, Trinidad, Dominica, Martinique, St. Lucia, St. Vincent and Grenada.
The Leeward Antilles form a chain off the northern coast of South America. Most of them belong to Venezuela, but their three westernmost islands (Aruba, Curacao and Bonaire) form part of the Kingdom of the Netherlands.
The Greater Antilles form the northern boundary of the Caribbean Sea; the Lesser Antilles form its eastern boundary.
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