north america • CUB
Cuba
Location marker · geographic overview
21.5° N / 80° WTHE WORLD, ONE COUNTRY AT A TIME
- Capital
- Havana
- Population
- 10,979,783 2024
- Area
- 109,884 km² (year unavailable)
- Languages source-listed
- Spanish
- Currency
- Cuban convertible peso (CUC), Cuban peso (CUP)
- Geography
- Island country
Population: World Bank 2024. Other facts: REST Countries snapshot. Sources & limitations.
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FROM THE TRAVEL GUIDE · Cuba
Cuba is the largest Caribbean island. The country has nine World Heritage Sites, as well as beaches, colonial architecture and distinct cultural history. It has had a communist government since the Cuban Revolution in 1959 and has been under a US embargo ever since.
Landscape & landmarks
The highlights of a trip to Cuba should include […] Old Havana […] Varadero Beach […] The Bay of Pigs in Western Cuba is historically important for the failed Bay of Pigs Invasion of 1961.Read the see section ↗
Food & everyday culture
The national dish in Cuba is rice and beans (moros y cristianos), and the local spice repertoire rarely extends beyond salt and garlic.Read the eat section ↗
Excerpts from Wikivoyage contributors, revision 2026-09-16. CC BY-SA 4.0. Selected excerpts; wiki formatting removed; omissions marked […]. Guide wording and any figures belong to this dated source; they do not replace the atlas statistics above. Food descriptions are not official national-dish designations.
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- National flower
- Not yet verified
- Official national dish
- Not yet verified
- Representative food
- Not yet verified
- Subregion
- Caribbean
- Calling code
- +53
- Internet domain
- .cu
- Land border codes
- None listed
Quick facts
- Traffic keeps to the right side of the road. Source ↗
- The country-code web domain is .cu. Source ↗
- The source lists monday as the start of the week. Source ↗
Population: World Bank 2024. Other facts: REST Countries snapshot. Source-matched September 26, 2026; not live data. Sources & limitations.