The main island of Cuba is the largest island in the Caribbean
Cuba's main island is little more than 40 thousand square miles in size, around half the size of the United Kingdom. It is the world's seventeenth biggest island. Aside from the main island of Cuba, there are 400 other islands, islets, and keys that are part of Cuban territory. Cayo Coco, Cayo Largo, and Cayo Santa Maria, for example, have become popular vacation locations due to their immaculate beaches.
Cuba has a total area of 110,860 km2, which includes coastline and territorial seas, and a land area of 109,884 km2. This places it as the world's eighth largest island country. The main island (Cuba) contains 5,746 kilometers of shoreline and 28.5 kilometers of land boundaries, including US territory at Guantánamo Bay, where the US Navy's Guantánamo Bay Naval Base is situated.
Cuba is located west of the North Atlantic Ocean, east of the Gulf of Mexico, south of the Florida Straits, north of the Windward Passage, and northeast of the Yucatán Channel. The main island (Cuba) covers the majority of the land area (104,556 km2) and is the world's seventeenth-largest island by land area.
