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Definition of: Yucatan
(y′kə·tan′, Sp. y′kä·tän′)
1. A peninsula of SE Mexico and NE Central America (including British Honduras and part of Guatemala); 70,000 square miles; separated from Cuba by Yucatán Channel, a strait between Yucatán and Cuba, connecting the Gulf of Mexico with the Caribbean; 135 miles wide.
2. A state in SE Mexico at the NW end of the peninsula; 13,706 square miles; capital, Mérida.
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