Cuba



"Is this Cuba? That's the only communist country in the Americas. I guess Cuba might've wanted to cause another nuclear crisis right now... even for embargoing stuff from the US as well."

--Su Ji-Hoon, Another Nuclear Crisis

Cuba (/ˈkjuːbə/; Spanish pronunciation: [ˈkuβa]), officially the Republic of Cuba (Spanish: República de Cuba), is a country comprising the island of Cuba as well as Isla de la Juventud and several minor archipelagos. Cuba is located in the northern Caribbean where the Caribbean Sea, the Gulf of Mexico, and the Atlantic Ocean meet. It is south of both the US state of Florida and the Bahamas, west of Haiti, and north of Jamaica. Havana is the largest city and capital; other major cities include Santiago de Cuba and Camagüey. Cuba is the largest island in the Caribbean, with an area of 109,884 square kilometers (42,426 square miles), and the second-most populous after Hispaniola, with over 11 (eleven) million inhabitants.