The Florida Keys are a coral cay archipelago off the southern coast of Florida, forming the southernmost part of the continental United States. The chain begins about 15 miles south of Miami and extends in an arc south-southwest and then west to Key West, the westernmost inhabited island, continuing on to the uninhabited Dry Tortugas. The islands lie along the Florida Straits, dividing the Atlantic Ocean to the east from the Gulf of Mexico to the northwest and defining one edge of Florida Bay, with the southern part of Key West about 93 miles from Cuba.
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The Florida Keys are a coral cay archipelago off the southern coast of Florida, forming the southernmost part of the continental United States.
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