Cuba
Cuba (officially Republic of Cuba) is a country in Caribbean, with its capital at Havana, and is home to roughly 11.0M people.
Spanish is the official language; the currency in circulation is Cuban convertible peso ($) and Cuban peso ($); people from here are called Cuban.
- »It is the largest island in the Caribbean.
Cuba shares no land border with anything, so every approach is by sea or air. The closest other territories on file are Bahamas (355 km), Jamaica (422 km) and Haiti (721 km), measured centre to centre.
Havana's harbour made it the assembly point for Spanish treasure fleets, which is why the city is ringed by some of the most extensive colonial fortifications in the Americas.
109,103 km² (42,125 sq mi), 103rd largest of 198 countries and territories on file, almost exactly the size of Guatemala.
Population 10,979,783, 87th of 198 on file. That averages 101 per km² (261 per sq mi).
The three blue stripes were the three military districts, the two white ones purity of purpose; the red triangle and white star are Masonic in origin. Designed in 1849, it predates the Cuban republic by half a century.