La República de Cuba es un país de América, asentado en un archipiélago del mar de las Antillas. Al norte se encuentran Estados Unidos y Bahamas, al oeste México, al sur las Islas Caimán y Jamaica y al sudeste Haití, en el occidente de la isla La Española, compartida con la República Dominicana.
The Republic of Cuba consists of the island of Cuba (the largest of the Greater Antilles), the Isle of Youth and adjacent small islands. Cuba is located in the northern Caribbean at the confluence of the Caribbean Sea, the Gulf of Mexico and the Atlantic Ocean. Cuba is south of the eastern ► United States and the ► Bahamas, west of the ► Turks and Caicos Islands and ► Haiti and east of ► Mexico. The ► Cayman Islands and ► Jamaica are to the south. On the island the United States have a naval base, ► Guantanamo Bay.
This section holds a short summary of the history of the area of present-day Cuba, illustrated with maps, including historical maps of former countries and empires that included present-day Cuba.
Cuba as part of the spanish colonial Empire
Old maps
This section holds copies of original general maps more than 70 years old.
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