, Cuba
1895 - Cuba

Cuba, kü'ba (Sp. pron, koo'bā), an island in the Carib. bean Sea, belonging to Spain, the largest of the West Indian group, and the most important of all the Spanish colonial possessions, is situated at the mouth of the Gulf of Mexico, 130 miles S. of Florida, from which it is separated by the Florida Strait. On the E. it is separated from Hayt by the Windward Passage, 48 miles wide; on the S., from Jamaica, by a portion of the Caribbean Sea, 90 miles across and on the W., from Yucatan, by the Yucatan Channel,180 miles wide. It is about a third larger than Hayti, and nearly five times the size of Jamaica. It extends from lon. 74° to near 85° W., and is 650 miles in length from B. to W.; greatest breadth, at Cape Cruz, 110 miles; average width, from 50 to 60 miles, while towards its W. extremity it does not exceed 30 miles. The extreme E. end of the island, Cape Maysi, is in lat. 20° 13' N, lon, 74° 'W', W., Cape San Antonio, in lat. 21° 15' N., lon. 84°57'1'. W.; and the island extends from lat. 19° 50' to 23°10'N, Area, 43,319 square miles. Coast-line, exclusive of minster sinuosities, about 2000 miles...

Lippincott's Gazetteer of the World: A Complete Pronouncing Gazetteer Or Geographical Dictionary of the World Containing Notices of Over One Hundred and Twenty-five Thousand Places ... Joseph Thomas January 1, 1895 J.B. Lippincott

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