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title: "Cuba — capital, area, population and currency"
description: "Cuba: capital Havana, area 110,860 km², population 10,937,203 (2025), currency Cuban peso. Languages, time zones and calling code."
url: https://atoneplace.net/country/cuba/
site: "At One Place"
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# Cuba

**Cuba: Capital Havana**

110,860 km² · 10,937,203 people (2025) · Cuban peso

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.

## The facts

- **Capital:** Havana
- **Area:** 110,860 km² — 42,803 sq mi
- **Population:** 10,937,203 (2025)
- **Density:** 98.7 people per km²
- **Currency:** Cuban peso (CUP, $)
- **Official language:** Spanish
- **Time zone:** UTC-05:00
- **Calling code:** +53
- **Drives on the:** right
- **ISO codes:** CU · CUB
- **Continent:** North America

## How it compares

- **By area:** 105 of 200
- **By population:** 88 of 200

> Population is the only figure on this page that dates — it is a 2025 estimate and will drift. Area, capital, currency, languages, calling code and driving side change rarely or never.

## Countries of a similar size

| Country | Area (km²) | Population |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Liberia | 111,369 | 5,731,206 |
| Bulgaria | 110,879 | 6,433,302 |
| Cuba ← | 110,860 | 10,937,203 |
| Guatemala | 108,889 | 18,687,881 |
| Iceland | 103,000 | 392,404 |

## Common questions

### What is the capital of Cuba?

Havana

### What currency does Cuba use?

The Cuban peso (CUP).

### How big is Cuba?

110,860 km², or 42,803 square miles — 105 of 200 by area.

### Which side of the road does Cuba drive on?

The right.

## Related pages

- [Liberia](https://atoneplace.net/country/liberia/)
- [Bulgaria](https://atoneplace.net/country/bulgaria/)
- [Guatemala](https://atoneplace.net/country/guatemala/)
- [Iceland](https://atoneplace.net/country/iceland/)
- [United States](https://atoneplace.net/country/united-states/)
- [Mexico](https://atoneplace.net/country/mexico/)
- [Canada](https://atoneplace.net/country/canada/)
- [Guatemala](https://atoneplace.net/country/guatemala/)
- [Haiti](https://atoneplace.net/country/haiti/)
- [Dominican Republic](https://atoneplace.net/country/dominican-republic/)
- [Honduras](https://atoneplace.net/country/honduras/)
- [Nicaragua](https://atoneplace.net/country/nicaragua/)

## 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]