Cuba March 16, 2020 ALBA , American colony , Americas , Antilles , archipelago , Atlantic Ocean , Bolivarian Alliance for the Peoples of Our America , Caribbean , Caribbean Sea , Castro , Cayo Coco , Cayo Ensenacho , Cayo Guilermo , Cayo Largo , Cayo Romano , Cayo Santa Maria , Che Guevara , colony , Cuba , Cuban Revolution , cyclone , cyclone tropical , dictatorship , embargo , Fidel Castro , Fulgencio Batista , Golfe du Mexique , Greater Antilles , Guantanamo , human rights , hurricane , Isla de la Juventud , islands , La Havane , natural disasters , parti communiste , Revolution , Santiago de Cuba , South America , Spanish , Spanish colony , Spanish language , Varadero Official name Republic of Cuba Name in local language República de Cuba (es) Continent Americas Subcontinent Caribbean Population (ranking: 85e ) 11,280,651 inhabitants (2020) Population growth 0.32 % / year Area 109,884 km² Density 102.66 inhabitants / km² GDP (ranking: 67e )96.851 billions $USD (2017) GDP/capita (ranking ) 8,541 $USD (2017) GDP growth 1.80 % / year (2017) Life expectancy (ranking ) 78.70 years (2018) Birth rate 10.40 ‰ (2018) Fertility rate 1.65 children / woman (2018) Death rate (ranking ) 9.50 ‰ (2018) Infant mortality rate (ranking ) 4.00 ‰ (2018) Literacy rate 100.00 % (2020) Official languages Spanish Currency Peso (CUP) ; Convertible peso (CUC) HDI (ranking: 102e )0.778 / 1 (2018) EPI (ranking )63.42 (2018) Government Unitary Marxist–Leninist one-party socialist republic Head of State President Miguel Díaz-Canel National Day 10 December (independence of 1898) ISO Codes CU, CUB Demonym Cuban Tourists (ranking ) 4,275,558 people (2019)
Cuba is a Caribbean island state consisting of the island of Cuba (the largest island in the West Indies), the Isle of Youth (known as Isle of Pines until 1976) and about 1600 other small islands. It is located north of the West Indies at the confluence of the Caribbean Sea, the Gulf of Mexico and the Atlantic Ocean; south of the United States and the Bahamas and east of Mexico . Cuba is the second most populous island in the Caribbean.
Che Guevara (left) and Fidel Castro in 1961. Photo: Alberto Korda/Museum Che Guevara Havana, old town, by night, Cuba. Photo: Gabriel Rodríguez
Urban areas (2017) Urban areas Population Havana 2,130,081 inhabitants Santiago de Cuba 510,563 inhabitants Holguín 350,987 inhabitants Camagüey 326,743 inhabitants Santa Clara 243,416 inhabitants Bayamo 237,789 inhabitants Guantánamo 229,550 inhabitants Las Tunas 206,096 inhabitants Pinar del Rio 190,931 inhabitants Cienfuegos 174,478 inhabitants Matanzas 154,857 inhabitants Ciego de Ávila 151,010 inhabitants Cárdenas 147,419 inhabitants Sancti Spíritus 140,648 inhabitants Manzanillo 130,793 inhabitants Palma Soriano 125,412 inhabitants Contramaestre 106,469 inhabitants Mayarí 101,465 inhabitants Varadero 26,995 inhabitants
Administrative divisions Provinces Population Area Artemisa 506,203 inhabitants 4,003 km² Camagüey 772,210 inhabitants 15,386 km² Ciego de Ávila 434,914 inhabitants 6,972 km² Cienfuegos 407,695 inhabitants 4,189 km² Granma 831,223 inhabitants 8,374 km² Guantánamo 512,964 inhabitants 6,168 km² Havana (La Habana) 2,130,081 inhabitants 728 km² Holguín 1,034,331 inhabitants 9,216 km² Island of Youth (Isla de la Juventud) 84,532 inhabitants 2,419 km² Las Tunas 537,221 inhabitants 6,593 km² Matanzas 709,707 inhabitants 11,792 km² Mayabeque 381,689 inhabitants 3,744 km² Pinar del Río 588,272 inhabitants 8,884 km² Sancti Spíritus 466,359 inhabitants 6,777 km² Santiago de Cuba 1,053,966 inhabitants 6,228 km² Villa Clara 787,857 inhabitants 8,412 km²
See also 
