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

List of provinces

From west to east, Cuba's provinces are:

  1. Isla de la Juventud
  2. Pinar del Río
  3. Havana (La Habana)
  4. City of Havana (Ciudad de La Habana)
  5. Matanzas
  6. Cienfuegos
  7. Villa Clara
  8. Sancti Spíritus
  9. Ciego de Ávila
  10. Camagüey
  11. Las Tunas
  12. Granma
  13. Holguín
  14. Santiago de Cuba
  15. 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

Cuba's former provinces, as shown on a 1910s map.

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). The present subdivisions closely resemble those of Spanish military provinces during the Cuban Wars of Independence in which the most troublesome areas were subdivided.[citation needed]

Demographics

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

Province Capital Pop. (2005) Pop. (%) Area (km²) Area (%) Density
Camagüey Camagüey 784,178 7.02 14,134 13.2 50.22
Ciego de Ávila Ciego de Ávila 411,766 3.68 5,962 5.6 60.70
Cienfuegos Cienfuegos 395,183 3.54 4,149 3.9 94.54
Ciudad de la Habana     Havana 2,201,610 19.70 740 0.7 3,053.49
Granma Bayamo 822,452 7.36 8,452 7.9 98.20
Guantánamo Guantánamo 507,118 4.54 6,366 6.0 82.22
Holguín Holguín 1,021,321 9.14 9,105 8.5 109.90
Isla de la Juventud Nueva Gerona 86,559 0.77 2,199 2.1 35.78
La Habana Havana 711,066 6.36 5,669 5.3 124.06
Las Tunas Victoria de Las Tunas     525,485 4.70 6,373 6.0 79.77
Matanzas Matanzas 670,427 6.00 11,669 10.0 56.80
Pinar del Río Pinar del Río 726,574 6.50 10,860 10.2 66.63
Sancti Spíritus Sancti Spíritus 460,328 4.12 6,737 6.3 68.33
Santiago de Cuba Santiago de Cuba 1,036,281 9.27 6,343 5.9 168.32
Villa Clara Santa Clara 817,395 7.31 8,069 7.6 97.17
Cuba Havana 11,177,743 106,827 101.72

See also

References

  1. ^ Cuba Census 2002 Population table
  • Map of contemporary provinces of Cuba on webhavana.com
  • "Provinces of Cuba". Statoids.
  • Cuban Census 2002


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