Map of Cuba

Cuba is located in North America. Its territory lies in the northern and western hemispheres, centred near 21.5° N, 80.0° W. It is an island nation and shares no land borders with any other country, so every approach to it is made by sea or by air. Within North America, a continent of 23 countries bordered by the Arctic Ocean, the Atlantic Ocean and the Pacific Ocean, Cuba is mapped here in full with its borders, capital and key facts.

Cuba is an island state with no land borders. The nearest countries are reached across open water rather than over a shared frontier.

Cuba covers about 109,884 km² (42,426 sq mi). That makes it the 104th-largest country in the world by area and the 6th-largest in North America, larger by area than 17 of the continent’s 23 countries.

It is home to a population of roughly 9,748,007, the 96th-largest in the world and the 8th-largest in North America, accounting for about 1.6% of the continent’s people. With that land area, Cuba has an average population density of about 89 people per km². Among the 23 countries of North America it stands 8th by population and 6th by area.

The seat of government is Havana, and the official currency is the Cuban convertible peso (CUC, $), and the main official language is Spanish. Traffic drives on the right, and the country observes the time zone UTC-05:00.

Cuba carries the ISO country codes CU and CUB, dials on the international calling code +53 and uses the .cu internet domain.

Cuba has no land neighbours. It is an island nation, so the countries nearest to it are reached across open water rather than over a shared border. Its position at 21.5° N, 80.0° W places it about 2,386 km from the equator, in the northern and western hemispheres, within the wider region of North America.

The interactive map above is centred on 21.5° N, 80.0° W and opens at zoom level 6, framing Cuba within North America. A marker pin sits at the country’s approximate geographic centre; drag the map or use scroll and pinch to move from a regional overview down to the streets of Havana. The map is drawn from OpenStreetMap data, the same open dataset used across this site, so place names, roads and coastlines stay consistent from one country to the next.

Cuba lies about 2,386 km from the equator, in the northern and western hemispheres of the globe. As an island, its full extent is best seen by zooming out to take in the surrounding sea.

Cuba keeps a single standard time zone, UTC-05:00. That figure is the country’s offset from Coordinated Universal Time (UTC), the modern reference that for everyday purposes matches Greenwich Mean Time, so local clocks sit -05:00 relative to UTC before any seasonal daylight saving change.

Cuba recognises more than one official currency: Cuban convertible peso (CUC, $) and Cuban peso (CUP, $).

The official language is Spanish, which is what appears on signs, documents and many of the place labels you will see on the map.

For practical reference, vehicles drive on the right-hand side of the road, the international dialling code is +53 and websites commonly use the .cu internet domain.

In short, Cuba is an island nation in North America, with no land borders. Its capital is Havana. Cuba has a population of about 9,748,007 and covers around 109,884 km² (42,426 sq mi), ranking it 96th in the world by population and 104th by area. The interactive map, facts table and questions on this page bring those details together in one place for Cuba.

The flag of Cuba is composed of five equal horizontal bands of blue alternating with white and a red equilateral triangle superimposed on the hoist side of the field. The triangle has its base on the hoist end, spans about two-fifth the width of the field and bears a white five-pointed star at its center.

The flag of Cuba is shown above as an emoji, rendered by your device’s own font; see it alongside every other nation on the flags of the world page.