Cuba vs United Kingdom

United Kingdom is 2.2 times larger than Cuba — 243,610 against 110,860 km². United Kingdom is 6.4 times more populous than Cuba — 69,487,000 against 10,937,203 people.

Side by side

Population density

United Kingdom is 2.9 times more densely populated than Cuba — 285 against 99 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

• They drive on opposite sides — Cuba on the right, United Kingdom on the left.
• Different currencies: the Cuban peso and the British pound.
• 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.

United Kingdom

Made up of Great Britain, the north-east of Ireland and around 6,000 smaller islands. No point in the UK is more than about 113 km from the sea. Ben Nevis, the highest point, is 1,345 m, which is modest — but the country has around 31,000 km of coastline once every inlet is counted.

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.