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St. Kitts and Nevis

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Saint Kitts and Nevis

(Encyclopedia) CE5 Saint Kitts and Nevis or Saint Kitts–NevisSaint Kitts and Nevisnēˈvĭs, nĕvˈĭs [key], officially Federation of Saint Kitts and Nevis, island nation (2015 est. pop. 52,000), 120…

Charlestown, town, St. Kitts-Nevis

(Encyclopedia) Charlestown, town on the island of Nevis, St. Kitts and Nevis, West Indies. Charlestown is the chief town and port of the island. Sugar…

Anguilla

(Encyclopedia) AnguillaAnguillaăng-gwĭlˈə [key], island and British dependency (2015 est. pop. 15,000) 35 sq mi (91 sq km), West Indies, northernmost of the Leeward Islands. The capital is the town…

Basseterre

(Encyclopedia) Basseterre, town (1990 est. pop. 15,500), capital of St. Kitts and Nevis, on St. Kitts island, West Indies. It is one of the chief commercial depots of the Leeward Islands. Sugar…

Nevis

(Encyclopedia) Nevis: see Saint Kitts and Nevis.

West Indies Federation

(Encyclopedia) West Indies Federation, former federation of 10 British West Indian territories formed in 1958. Trinidad and Tobago, Jamaica, and Barbados were the principal members, but the…

Leeward Islands

(Encyclopedia) Leeward IslandsLeeward Islandsl&oomacr;ˈərd, ly&oomacr;ˈ–, lēˈ– [key], northern group of the Lesser Antilles in the West Indies, extending SE from Puerto Rico to the Windward…

Douglas, Denzil Llewellyn

(Encyclopedia) Douglas, Denzil Llewellyn, 1953–, Kittian political leader, grad. Univ. of the West Indies (B.S. 1977, M.D. 1984). A member of the Labour party, in 1989 he was elected to the Saint…