Countries
Key facts
- Capital
- Havana
- Region
- Americas, Caribbean
- Population
- 10,937,203 (2025)
- Area
- 110,860 km²
- Currency
- Cuban peso (CUP)
- Languages
- Spanish, Papiamento
- Calling code
- +53
- Internet domain
- .cu
- ISO codes
- CU, CUB, 192
- Time zone
- UTC-5:00
- United Nations
- Member state
- Postal code pattern
- CP ##### (# = digit, @ = letter)
Land and position
Cuba covers about 110,860 square kilometres. By area it ranks 107th among the 250 countries and territories on this site. It is a little smaller than Bulgaria and a little larger than Guatemala. It has no land border with any other country. Its centre lies at about 22° north, 80° west, in the northern hemisphere.
People
About 10.9 million people live in Cuba (World Bank, 2025). That makes it the 88th most populous of the 246 places on this site with a figure, with about 0.13 percent of the world's people. On average there are 99 people to each square kilometre. About 77 percent of people live in towns and cities (World Bank, 2025). A baby born there can expect to live about 78 years (World Bank, 2024). Languages listed for it: Spanish, Papiamento. A person from Cuba is called Cuban.
Money and economy
The currency is the Cuban peso (code CUP, symbol $). The World Bank puts the size of its economy (GDP) at about US$ 107 billion (2020), which is about US$ 9,605 for each person (2020).
Time
Cuba uses one time zone, UTC-5:00 (America/Havana). Clocks are moved for daylight saving time in part of the year.
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Largest cities
| City | People |
|---|---|
| Havana | 2,163,824 |
| Santiago de Cuba | 555,865 |
| Camagüey | 347,562 |
| Holguín | 319,102 |
| Guantánamo | 272,801 |
| Santa Clara | 250,512 |
City figures are from GeoNames and count the city itself, not the wider urban area. They can be some years old, so use them to see the order of size.
More in Caribbean
Anguilla, Antigua and Barbuda, Aruba, Bahamas, Barbados, British Virgin Islands, Caribbean Netherlands, Cayman Islands. See the whole region.
Figures were collected on 11 November 2026 from the World Bank, GeoNames and the open countries data set. See About and data sources. Borders and names follow those sources and do not express any view on disputed territory.