- Capital: Havana (“La Habana” in Spanish)
- Language: Spanish
- Population: 11,120,000
- Area: 110,860 square kilometers (42,803 square miles)
- Number of provinces: 15
- Pinar del Rio, Artemisa, Mayabeque, City of Havana, Matanzas, Cienfuegos, Villa Clara, Sancti Spíritus Ciego de Ávila, Camagüey, Las Tunas, Granma, Santiago de Cuba, Holguín, Guantánamo, Special municipality: Isla de la Juventud
- Dual Currency:
- Cuban Peso (MN = Moneda Nacional) local currency; 25 Pesos=1CUC
- Cuban Peso Convertible (CUC) – strong currency; equivalent to .87 US cents
- National Anthem: Bayamo, composed in 1867-8 by Perucho Figueredo.
- National Flower: Butterfly lily (Hedychium Coronarium Koenig), a native-growing white-colored fragrant jasmine
- Ethnic Groups: white 65.1%, mulatto / mestizo 24.8%, black 10.1% (2002 census)
- National Bird: The Cuban Trogon (Priotelus temnurus), or tocororo, this bird displays plumage with the same colors as the Cuban flag
- National tree: The Royal Palm
- Main religions: Roman Catholic, Santería, Protestant, Jehovah’s Witness, Jewish
- UNESCO World Heritage Sites: 9; 22% of the island is designated a protected natural area.
- GDP Per Capita: U.S. $2,700
- Literacy rate: 97%
- Industry: Sugar, petroleum, tobacco, chemical
- Agriculture: Sugar, tobacco, citrus, coffee; livestock
- Exports: Sugar, nickel, tobacco, fish, medical products
- Cuba & Physicians: There are more doctors per square foot in Cuba than anywhere else in the world.
- Cuba is home to the smallest bird in the world called the bee hummingbird.
- Favorite Sport: baseball
- Favorite game: Dominoes
- Cuba is made up of more than 4000 islands and cays.
- There are thousands of species of plants and animals that can’t be found anywhere outside of Cuba.
- The legal voting age is 16.
- Cuba is on Eastern Standard time (EST) and observes daylight savings time.