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Geography of Cuba Sierra Maestra Viñales Valley. Cuba is located 77 km (48 mi) west of Haiti across the Windward Passage, 22.5 km (14.0 mi) south of The Bahamas (Cay Lobos), 150 km (93 mi) south of the United States (Key West, Florida), 210 km (130 mi) east of Mexico, and 140 km (87 mi) north of Jamaica. It was made in three stages. [2]
Windward Passage (French: Passage au Vent; Spanish: Paso de los Vientos) is a strait in the Caribbean Sea, between the islands of Cuba and Hispaniola. The strait specifically lies between the easternmost region of Cuba and the northwest of Haiti. [1] 80 km (50 mi) wide, the Windward Passage has a threshold depth of 1,700 m (5,600 ft).
This is a list of articles holding galleries of maps of present-day countries and dependencies. The list includes all countries listed in the List of countries , the French overseas departments, the Spanish and Portuguese overseas regions and inhabited overseas dependencies.
Cuba Haiti Turks and Caicos Islands [e] (United Kingdom) United States Bahrain: 3 3 3 Iran (T) Qatar (J) Saudi Arabia (T) Baker Island [f] and Howland Island [f] (United States) 1 1 1 Kiribati Bangladesh: 2 2 2 Myanmar India Barbados: 5 5 4 Guadeloupe [l] (T) Martinique [l] (T) Saint Lucia Saint Vincent and the Grenadines
The following islands are some of the major islands in the island country Cuba: [10] Cuba (largest island in the Caribbean 104,556 km 2 (40,369 sq mi), 21°56′02″N 78°45′15″W / 21.93384°N 78.75425°W / 21.93384; -78.75425 ( Island
001 – World The West Indies is a subregion of North America , surrounded by the North Atlantic Ocean and the Caribbean Sea , which comprises 13 independent island countries and 19 dependencies in three archipelagos : the Greater Antilles , the Lesser Antilles , and the Lucayan Archipelago .
The Man Who Pays His Way: Savour Havana. Go to the beach. Meet the Cuban people.
A world map is a map of most or all of the surface of Earth. World maps, because of their scale, must deal with the problem of projection. Maps rendered in two dimensions by necessity distort the display of the three-dimensional surface of the Earth. While this is true of any map, these distortions reach extremes in a world map.