Capital of Cuba:
Havana (La Habana)
Area of Cuba: 109,884 km² (42,426 mi²) (
105th)
Population of Cuba: 10,979,783 (
87th) - (2024 est.)
Location: Caribbean, island between the Caribbean Sea and the North Atlantic Ocean, 150 km south of Key West, Florida.
Languages of Cuba: Spanish (official)
Religions of Cuba: Christian 58.9%,
No religion 23.2%,
Folk religions 17.6%, other 0.3% (2020 est.)
Ethnic groups in Cuba: White 64.1%, Mulatto or
Mixed 26.6%,
Afro-Cuban 9.3% (2012 est.)
Currency:
Cuban peso (
CUP)
Time zone:
UTC−5 (
CST), Summer (
DSTDaylight saving time (DST), also referred to as daylight saving(s), daylight savings time, daylight time (United States and Canada), or summer time (United Kingdom, European Union, and others), is the practice of advancing clocks to make better use of the longer daylight available during summer so that darkness falls at a later clock time. The typical implementation of DST is to set clocks forward by one hour in spring or late winter, and to set clocks back by one hour to standard time in the autumn (or fall in North American English, hence the mnemonic: "spring forward and fall back").)
UTC−4 (
CDT)
Calling code: (
+53)
Organizations: United Nations
Border countries (1): US Naval Base at Guantanamo Bay 28.5 km
—
note: Guantanamo Naval Base is leased by the US and remains part of Cuba.
Coastline 5,746 km (3,570 mi)
Maritime boundaries: Atlantic Ocean, Caribbean Sea, Gulf of Mexico
Administrative divisions of Cuba
15 provinces (provincias, singular - provincia)
and 1 special municipality (municipio especial):
Ciego de Avila, Cienfuegos, Ciudad de La Habana, Granma, Guantánamo, Holguin, Isla de la Juventud, La Habana, Las Tunas, Matanzas, Pinar del Rio, Sancti Spiritus, Santiago de Cuba, Villa Clara.
Municipality: Camaguey.
Natural resources: cobalt,
nickel,
iron ore, chromium,
copper,
salt,
timber,
silica,
oil,
petroleum, arable land.