For other uses see Cuba (disambiguation).
| Native Name: | Spanish; Castilian: ''República de Cuba'' |
| Conventional Long Name: | Republic of Cuba |
| Common Name: | Cuba |
| National Motto: | Patria o Muerte (Spanish) "Our Homeland or Death"a |
| National Anthem: | La Bayamesa("The Bayamo Song") |
| Official Languages: | Spanish |
| Demonym: | Cuban |
| Ethnic Groups: | 65.05% European (Spanish, French, other), 10.08% African (Yoruba, Igbo, other), 23.84% Mulatto & Mestizo[1] |
| Capital: | Havana |
| Latd: | 23 |
| Latm: | 8 |
| Latns: | N |
| Longd: | 82 |
| Longm: | 23 |
| Longew: | W |
| Largest City: | capital |
| Government Type: | Socialist Republic, Single-party communist state |
| Leader Title1: | President |
| Leader Name1: | Raúl Castro |
| Leader Title2: | Premier |
| Leader Name2: | Raúl Castro |
| Area Rank: | 105th |
| Area Magnitude: | 1_E11 |
| Area Km2: | 110,861 |
| Area Sq Mi: | 42,803 |
| Percent Water: | negligible |
| Population Estimate: | 11,423,952[2] |
| Population Estimate Year: | 2008 |
| Population Estimate Rank: | 73rd |
| Population Census: | 11,177,743 |
| Population Census Year: | 2002 |
| Population Density Km2: | 102 |
| Population Density Sq Mi: | 264 |
| Population Density Rank: | 97th |
| Gdp Ppp Year: | 2008 |
| Gdp Ppp: | $144.6 billion |
| Gdp Ppp Per Capita: | $12,700 |
| Gdp Ppp Per Capita Rank: | 70th |
| Gdp Nominal Year: | 2008 |
| Gdp Nominal: | $55.18 billion |
| Gdp Nominal Per Capita: | $4,830 |
| Hdi Year: | 2008 |
| Hdi: | 0.855 |
| Hdi Rank: | 48th |
| Hdi Category: | high> |
| Sovereignty Type: | Independence |
| Sovereignty Note: | from Spain |
| Established Event1: | Declaredc |
| Established Event2: | Republic declared |
| Established Event3: | Cuban Revolution |
| Established Date1: | October 10, 1868 |
| Established Date2: | May 20, 1902 from United States |
| Established Date3: | January 1, 1959 |
| Currency: | Cuban peso ([[ISO 4217|CUP]])Convertible peso d |
| Currency Code: | CUC |
| Utc Offset: | -5 |
| Time Zone Dst: | (Starts March 11; ends November 4) |
| Utc Offset Dst: | -4 |
| Drives On: | right |
| Cctld: | .cu |
| Calling Code: | 53 |
| Footnotes: | a As shown on the obverse of the 1992 coin[3] (Note that the Spanish word "Patria" is feminine and is translated into English as either "Cradle" or "Place of Birth" or "Homeland".) bThe Constitution of Cuba states that "Cuba is an independent and sovereign socialist state [Article 1] and that the name of the Cuban state is Republic of Cuba [Article 2]." The usage "socialist republic" to describe the style of government of Cuba is nearly uniform, though forms of government have no universally agreed typology. For example, Atlapedia describes it as "Unitary Socialist Republic"; Encyclopædia Britannica omits the word "unitary", as do most sources. c At the start of the Ten Years' War. d From 1993 to 2004 the U.S. dollar was used in addition to the peso until the dollar was replaced by the convertible peso. |
The Republic of Cuba (, Spanish; Castilian: {{Audio|CUBA.ogg|Cuba
