The French Antilles (French West Indies) include:

- Guadeloupe (French Overseas Departments):
- Basse-Terre
- The Desirade
- Grande-Terre
- Marie-Galante
- Small islands of "Petite Terre"
- Islands of Saintes (2 islands)
- Saint-Barthélemy
- Saint-Martin, (two thirds of the island shared with the Netherlands Antilles)
- Martinique (French overseas departments)

Former French West Indian islands :
- Hispaniola (the former French colony, Saint-Domingue, was on the western third of the island - now the country of Haiti)
- Dominica
- Grenada
- The Grenadines
- Saint Croix
- Saint Lucia
- Saint Vincent
- Tobago

The term French West Indies (Antilles françaises) refers to the four territories presently under French sovereignty in the Caribbean : the two overseas departments of Guadeloupe and Martinique, plus the two overseas collectivities of Saint Martin and Saint-Barthélemy. The Guadeloupe department includes both the island of Guadeloupe proper and the adjacent islands of Les Saintes, Marie-Galante and La Désirade.

In addition, some of the islands of the present and former British West Indies were once ruled by France. On some of them, a French-based creole language is spoken.