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title: "Cuba vs Spain — area, population, currency"
description: "Cuba is 110,860 km² with 10,937,203 people; Spain is 505,370 km² with 49,355,143. Area, density, currency, languages and time zones side by side."
url: https://atoneplace.net/country-vs/cuba-vs-spain/
site: "At One Place"
---

# Cuba vs Spain

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

110,860 km² vs 505,370 km² · 10,937,203 vs 49,355,143

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

|  | Cuba | Spain |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Capital | Havana | Madrid |
| Area | 110,860 km² | 505,370 km² |
| Population | 10,937,203 (2025) | 49,355,143 (2025) |
| Density | 98.7 /km² | 97.7 /km² |
| Currency | Cuban peso (CUP) | Euro (EUR) |
| Official languages | Spanish | Spanish |
| Time zones | UTC-05:00 | UTC+00:00, UTC+01:00 |
| Calling code | +53 | +34 |
| Drives on the | right | right |
| Continent | North America | Europe |
| ISO codes | CU / CUB | ES / ESP |

## 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.

## Common questions

### Is Cuba bigger than Spain?

Spain is larger — 505,370 km² against 110,860 km².

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

Spain, with 49,355,143 against 10,937,203.

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

Cuba is UTC-05:00 and Spain is UTC+00:00, UTC+01:00. Daylight saving shifts the gap during the year in places that observe it.

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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]