Cuba is the largest island in the West Indies and it lies South of Florida and east of the Yucatan Peninsula of Mexico. In comparison Cuba is about the size of the state of Pennsylvania and is highly subjected to hurricanes from the month of August to October. It is 90 miles off the coast of South Florida's Keys and is the largest country in the Caribbean. From the latter of the early twentieth century to …showed first 75 words of 1122 total…

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