Cuba

Cuba

Cuba ranks 56th in number of biographies on Pantheon, behind Chile, Nigeria, and New Zealand. Memorable people born in present day Cuba include Fidel Castro, Raúl Castro, and Fulgencio Batista. Memorable people who died in Cuba include Fidel Castro, Ramón Mercader, and Juan Ponce de León. Cuba has been the birth place of many athletes, and politicians and the death place of many politicians, and writers.

Cuba, officially the Republic of Cuba, is an island country, comprising the island of Cuba, Isla de la Juventud, archipelagos, 4,195 islands and cays surrounding the main island. Cuba is located where the northern Caribbean Sea, Gulf of Mexico, and Atlantic Ocean meet. Cuba is located east of the Yucatán Peninsula (Mexico), south of both the American state of Florida and the Bahamas, west of Hispaniola, and north of Jamaica and the Cayman Islands. Havana is the largest city and capital; other major cities include Santiago de Cuba and Camagüey. The official area of the Republic of Cuba is 109,884 km2 (42,426 sq mi) but a total of 350,730 km2 (135,420 sq mi) including the exclusive economic zone. Cuba is the second-most populous country in the Caribbean after Haiti, with over 11 million inhabitants. Read more on Wikipedia