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title: "Canada vs Cuba — area, population, currency"
description: "Canada is 9,984,670 km² with 41,651,653 people; Cuba is 110,860 km² with 10,937,203. Area, density, currency, languages and time zones side by side."
url: https://atoneplace.net/country-vs/canada-vs-cuba/
site: "At One Place"
---

# Canada vs Cuba

**Canada vs Cuba: Canada is larger; Canada has more people**

9,984,670 km² vs 110,860 km² · 41,651,653 vs 10,937,203

Canada is 90 times larger than Cuba — 9,984,670 against 110,860 km². Canada is 3.8 times more populous than Cuba — 41,651,653 against 10,937,203 people.

## Side by side

|  | Canada | Cuba |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Capital | Ottawa | Havana |
| Area | 9,984,670 km² | 110,860 km² |
| Population | 41,651,653 (2025) | 10,937,203 (2025) |
| Density | 4.2 /km² | 98.7 /km² |
| Currency | Canadian dollar (CAD) | Cuban peso (CUP) |
| Official languages | English, French | Spanish |
| Time zones | UTC-08:00, UTC-07:00, UTC-06:00, UTC-05:00, UTC-04:00, UTC-03:30 | UTC-05:00 |
| Calling code | +1 | +53 |
| Drives on the | right | right |
| Continent | North America | North America |
| ISO codes | CA / CAN | CU / CUB |

## Population density

Cuba is 24 times more densely populated than Canada — 99 against 4 people per km². Density is where area and population interact, and it often reverses the impression the headline figures give — a large country with a small population can feel emptier than a small crowded one by an enormous margin.

## Practical differences

- Different currencies: the Canadian dollar and the Cuban peso.
- Canada spans 6 time zones, so "local time" there is not a single answer.

## Canada

The second-largest country in the world by total area, and the longest coastline of any — about 202,000 km, more than the rest of the world put together. Canada holds more lake area than every other country combined, and something over two million lakes. Its border with the United States is the longest between any two countries at 8,891 km.

## Cuba

The largest island in the Caribbean, roughly 1,250 km long but as little as 31 km wide. The Viñales valley in the west is a karst landscape of mogotes — steep limestone humps left standing when the rock around them dissolved. The bee hummingbird, the smallest bird in the world at about 5 cm, lives only here.

> Neutral facts only. Nothing here addresses politics, government, economics or which country is preferable in any respect — population is the one figure that dates, and it carries its year.

## Common questions

### Is Canada bigger than Cuba?

Canada is larger — 9,984,670 km² against 110,860 km².

### Which has more people, Canada or Cuba?

Canada, with 41,651,653 against 10,937,203.

### What is the time difference between Canada and Cuba?

Canada is UTC-08:00, UTC-07:00, UTC-06:00, UTC-05:00, UTC-04:00, UTC-03:30 and Cuba is UTC-05:00. Daylight saving shifts the gap during the year in places that observe it.

## Related pages

- [Canada](https://atoneplace.net/country/canada/)
- [Cuba](https://atoneplace.net/country/cuba/)
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## Sources

- The World Factbook — Central Intelligence Agency (https://www.cia.gov/the-world-factbook/) [Public domain (US Government)]
- World Bank Open Data — The World Bank (https://data.worldbank.org/) [CC BY 4.0]