PROVINCES OF CUBA

Administratively, 'Cuba' is divided into fourteen 'provinces' and one special municipality.

Contents

List of provinces

History

Demographics

See also

References

External links

List of provinces

From west to east, Cuba's provinces are:
# Isla de la Juventud
# Pinar del Río
# Havana
# Ciudad de La Habana
# Matanzas
# Cienfuegos
# Villa Clara
# Sancti Spíritus
# Ciego de Ávila
# Camagüey
# Las Tunas
# Granma
# Holguín
# Santiago de Cuba
# Guantánamo
Cuba's "special municipality" is the ''Isla de la Juventud'' ("Island of Youth"), known until the 1970s as the ''Isla de Pinos'' ("Isle of Pines") and previously as "Evangelista", "Isle of Santiago" and "Isle of Parrots".

History

Prior to 1976, Cuba was divided into the following provinces (from west to east):

★ Pinar del Río

★ La Habana

★ Matanzas

★ Las Villas (before 1940, "Santa Clara")

★ Camagüey (before 1899, "Puerto Príncipe")

★ Oriente (before 1905, "Santiago de Cuba")
These provinces correspond to the following areas on the map: Pinar del Rio (item 2), La Habana (items 1, 3, 4), Matanzas (5), Las Villas (approximately 6, 7, and 8 on map), Camaguey (roughly 9 and 10) and Oriente (11, 12, 13, 14 and 15).

Demographics

''Pop. = Population. Source: Cuba census 2002'' ^[1]

Province	Capital	Pop. (2005)	Pop. (%)	Area (km²)	Area (%)	Density
Camagüey	Camagüey		7.02		13.2	50.22
Ciego de Ávila	Ciego de Ávila		3.68		5.6	60.70
Cienfuegos	Cienfuegos		3.54		3.9	94.54
Ciudad de la Habana	Havana		19.70	740	0.7
Granma	Bayamo		7.36		7.9	98.20
Guantánamo	Guantánamo		4.54		6.0	82.22
Holguín	Holguín		9.14		8.5	109.90
Isla de la Juventud	Nueva Gerona		0.77		2.1	35.78
La Habana	Havana		6.36		5.3	124.06
Las Tunas	Victoria de Las Tunas		4.70		6.0	79.77
Matanzas	Matanzas		6.00		10.0	56.80
Pinar del Río	Pinar del Río		6.50		10.2	66.63
Sancti Spíritus	Sancti Spíritus		4.12		6.3	68.33
Santiago de Cuba	Santiago de Cuba		9.27		5.9	168.32
Villa Clara	Santa Clara		7.31		7.6	97.17
Cuba	'''Havana'''	''''		''''		'''101.72'''

See also

★ Politics of Cuba

★ Ranked list of Cuban provinces

★ Cuba Census 2002 data

★ List of places in Cuba

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References

1. Cuba Census 2002 Population table

External links

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★ Cuban Census 2002