Cuba
Coordinates: 22°00′N 80°00′W / 22.000°N 80.000°W
The Republic o Cuba (Spaingie pronunciation: [ˈkuβa]) is a kintra in the Americaes. It conseests o the island o Cuba (the maist muckle an secont-maist populous island o the Greater Antilles), the island o Isla de la Juventud, an monie adjacent wee islands.
Republic o Cuba República de Cuba (Spaingie) | |
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Motto: "¡Patria o Muerte, Venceremos!" (Spaingie) "Hameland or Daith, we shall owercome!"[1] • "¡Trabajadores del mundo, únanse!" "Wirkers o the warld, unite!" | |
.svg) Location o Cuba (green) | |
| Caipital and largest city | Havana 23°8′N 82°23′W / 23.133°N 82.383°W |
| Offeecial leids | Spaingie |
| Ethnic groups (2012[3]) | |
| Demonym(s) | Cuban |
| Govrenment | Unitar Marxist–Leninist ane-pairty socialist republic[4] |
| Raúl Castro | |
• Preses | Miguel Díaz-Canel |
| Salvador Valdés Mesa | |
| José Machado Ventura | |
| Esteban Lazo Hernández | |
| Legislatur | Naitional Assemmly o Fowk's Pouer |
| Independence | |
| October 10, 1868 | |
| Februar 24, 1895 | |
• Recognised (haundit ower frae Spain tae the Unitit States) | December 10, 1898 |
• Republic declared (independence from United States) | Mey 20, 1902 |
| Julie 26, 1953 – Januar 1, 1959 | |
• Current constitution | Februar 24, 1976 |
| Aurie | |
• Total | 109,884 km2 (42,426 sq mi) (104th) |
• Water (%) | negligible[5] |
| Population | |
• 2016 census | 11,239,224[6] (81st) |
• Density | 102.3/km2 (265.0/sq mi) (106t) |
| GDP (PPP) | 2015 estimate |
• Total | US$ 254.865 billion[7] (55t) |
• Per capita | US$ 20,646 (2013)[8] (58t) |
| GDP (nominal) | 2015 estimate |
• Tot | US$ 87.205 billion[9] (65t) |
• Per capita | US$ 7,657[10] (80t) |
| Gini (2000) | 38.0[11] medium |
| HDI (2015) |  0.775[12]heich · 68t |
| Currency | (CUC) |
| Time zone | UTC−5 (CST) |
• Summer (DST) | UTC−4 (CDT) |
| Drivin side | richt |
| Cawin code | +53 |
| ISO 3166 code | CU |
| Internet TLD | .cu |
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Havana is the maist muckle city in Cuba an is the kintra's caipital. Santiago de Cuba an Camagüey are major Cuban cities an aw. Better kent smawer clachans include: Baracoa (that wis the first Spanis sattlement on Cuba), Trinidad (a UNESCO Warld Heritage Steid), an Bayamo.
Cuba is hame tae ower 11 million fowk an is the maist populous insular naition in the Caribbean. Its fowk, cultur, an customs draw fae diverse soorces sic as: the auncient Taíno an Ciboney fowk; the period o Spaingie colonialism; the introduction o African thralls; an its proximity tae the Unitit States.
References
eedit- ↑ "Cuban Peso Bills". Central Bank of Cuba. 2015. Archived frae the original on 26 September 2018. Retrieved 14 Februar 2017.
- ↑ "National symbols". Government of Cuba. Archived frae the original on 15 Januar 2016. Retrieved 7 September 2009.
- ↑ official 2012 Census Archived Juin 3, 2014, at the Wayback Machine
- ↑ "The Constitution of the Republic of Cuba, 1976 (as Amended to 2002)" (PDF). National Assembly of People's Power. Archived frae the original (PDF) on Januar 17, 2013. Retrieved August 18, 2012. Unknown parameter
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For discussion o the 1992 amendments, see Domínguez 2003. - ↑ "Anuario Estadístico de Cuba 2010". Oficina Nacional de Estadísticas. Archived frae the original on 4 Mairch 2016. Retrieved 19 Julie 2013.
- ↑ "Resumen del Balance Demográfico" (PDF). Archived frae the original (PDF) on 31 Julie 2017. Retrieved 15 Julie 2017.
- ↑ "GDP PPP pdf World Bank 2015" (PDF). Retrieved 29 Juin 2017.
- ↑ "GDP per capita, PPP (current international $)".
- ↑ "GDP (current US$)".
- ↑ "GDP per capita (current US$)".
- ↑ "Cuba grapples with growing inequality". Reuters. Archived frae the original on 17 September 2013. Retrieved 21 Julie 2013.
- ↑ "Table 2: Trends in the Human Development Index, 1990–2014" (PDF). United Nations Development Programme. Archived frae the original on 22 Mairch 2017. Retrieved 15 December 2015.
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