Cuba

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Cuba, officially the Republic of Cuba (Spanish: República de Cuba), consists of the island of Cuba (the largest of the Greater Antilles), Isla de la Juventud and several smaller islands. Cuba is located in the northern Caribbean at the confluence of the Caribbean Sea, the Gulf of Mexico and the Atlantic Ocean. Its location is south of the eastern United States and The Bahamas, west of the Turks and Caicos Islands and Haiti, east of Mexico and north of the Cayman Islands and Jamaica.