CUBA

PHYSICAL CHARACTERISTIC

1.slightly smaller than Pennsylvania
2.Caribbean, island between the Caribbean Sea and the North Atlantic Ocean, 150 km south of Key West, Florida
3.largest country in Caribbean and westernmost island of the Greater Antilles
4.mostly flat to rolling plains, with rugged hills and mountains in the southeast

CLIMATE

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• tropical; ;
• moderated by trade winds;
• dry season (November to April)
• rainy season (May to October)

ECOSYSTEM

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• Large areas of mangrove
• A tropical rainforest
• Coastal deserts

People and culture
illicit emigration is a continuing problem；Cubans attempt to depart the island and enter the US using homemade rafts, alien smugglers, direct flights, or falsified visas; Cubans also use non-maritime routes to enter the US including direct flights to Miami and over-land via the southwest border

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• Triumph of the Revolution, 1 January (1959)
• Capital is Havana.
• civil law system based on Spanish civil code

ECONOMIC,TECHNOLOGY AND ENVIRONMENT

The government continues to balance the need for loosening its socialist economic system against a desire for firm political control. Recent moves include permitting the private ownership and sale of real estate and new vehicles, allowing private farmers to sell agricultural goods directly to hotels, and expanding categories of self-employment.

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• Resource:cobalt, nickel, iron ore, chromium, copper, salt, timber, etc.
• air and water pollution; biodiversity loss; deforestation
• the east coast is subject to hurricanes from August to November.
• droughts are common