Nicknamed the City of Columns and Rome of the Caribbean, Havana is the capital city for the Republic of Cuba.



Havana is noted for having many public statues including a bronze commemorative for the legendary ex-Beatle featured in John Lennon Park. Havana also has many historical museums, like its Museum of Napoleonic art that showcases Napoleon’s death mask–and even one of his teeth.



The Old Town museum inside an 18th century colonial townhouse pays tribute to Cuba’s famous rum, Havana Club.



Built in 1956 after just 28 months, Havana’s Edificio Focsa stood 39 floors and was the second-highest building made of concrete in the world at the time.



Havana is Cuba’s biggest and most populous city, major port and its principal commercial center.



From an international trade perspective, Cuba shipped an estimated US$1.6 billion worth of goods around the globe in 2019. The most valuable exported products from Cuba are tobacco cigars and some cigarettes (20.2% of its global total), sugar (18.2%), nickel (10.4%), rum (7.5%), zinc (6.8%), fish and crustaceans (5.8%), lead (3.9%), wood charcoal (3.4%), refined petroleum oils (2.9%) then natural honey (1.3%) according to the International Trade Centre.

Capital Facts for Havana, Cuba: Quick Reference











Since 1959, Cubans celebrate the nation’s Triumph of the Revolution on each January 1 (also called Liberation Day).



Havana’s metropolitan area covers 301.8 square miles (781.6 square kilometers). It serves as home to 2.1 million inhabitants at July 2020.



Cuba’s total population is 11.3 million. The largest Caribbean country by land area, the island measures 41,097 square miles (106,440 square kilometers).



Population density is much more intense within Havana, with an average 7,093 residents per square mile (2,739 per square kilometer).



Zooming out to Cuba’s overall land boundaries, the Caribbean island’s population density thins out to an average 276 people per square mile (106 per square kilometer).