- Cuba, officially republic of Cuba, island country of the Big Antilles, situated in the South of the United States and east of Mexico, in 77 km east of Haiti and in 140 km in the North of Jamaica. Cuba is surrounded in the North by the strait of Florida, in the East by the Atlantic Ocean, in the southeast by the passage of the Wind, in the South by the Caribbean Sea, on the West by the strait of Yucatán. Regrouping several small archipelagoes around the main island of Cuba, the country adds up a surface of 110 860 km2; the capital is Havana.
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