Cuba vs Spain

Spain is 4.6 times larger than Cuba — 505,370 against 110,860 km². Spain is 4.5 times more populous than Cuba — 49,355,143 against 10,937,203 people.

Side by side

Population density

Cuba is slightly more densely populated, by 1.0% — 99 against 98 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 Cuban peso and the Euro.
• Spain spans 2 time zones, so "local time" there is not a single answer.
• Different continents — North America and Europe.

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.

Spain

After Switzerland, Spain is the most mountainous country in Europe, with an average elevation around 650 m. The Canary Islands sit off Africa, which is why part of Spain is on a different time zone and why Teide, at 3,715 m, is the country's highest point. Spain has more olive trees than any other country, around 340 million.

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.