The largest island in the Caribbean, with Old Havana preserved as a UNESCO World Heritage Site.
Cuba
Republic of Cuba
North America
ยท Caribbean
- ISO codes
- CU ยท CUB
- Density
- 103 /kmยฒ
- Languages
- Spanish
- Currencies
- Cuban convertible peso (CUC), Cuban peso (CUP)
- Dial code
- +53
- Internet domain
- .cu
- Time zones
- 1
- Coastline
- Has a coast
- Map centre
- 21.3340ยฐ N, 77.9760ยฐ W
- Demonym
- Cuban
- UN region
- Americas ยท Caribbean
- Economy
- Emerging region: G20
- Income group
- Upper middle income
- Total GDP
- $100.02B
- Sovereignty
- Independent ยท UN member
- Borders
- None
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By the numbers
How Cuba stacks up against all 242 mapped countries.
Ten facts about Cuba
The first is hand-written; the rest are worked out from this country's own figures.
Population is about 11,333,483 people, the 81st largest of the 242 countries mapped here - roughly 0.15 per cent of everyone alive.
Covers 109,884 kmยฒ, making it the 107th largest country here - about 11.9 times the size of Cyprus.
Population density is about 103 people per kmยฒ.
The capital is Havana, at 23.13ยฐ N, 82.37ยฐ W, with a metropolitan population of about 2,174,000.
Has no land neighbours - it is an island nation, surrounded entirely by water.
Has its own coastline and direct access to the open sea.
Keeps a single time zone, America/Havana.
The currency is the Cuban convertible peso (CUC, symbol $).
The official language is Spanish.
Local time
Live, from PHP's IANA database.
Cities
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