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Cuba

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For supplementary information, see links to post office home pages here External, to postal code pages here External and to other personal name and addressing issues pages here External.

Table of Contents

Cuba - Country information

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Local short name form

Official name

Area

Population

11 181 595 (2020 estimate) [1]

Capital

Currency

International telephone access code

53

ISO 3166 country codes

Car nationality plate code

C

Internet country code

CU

GRC Country Code

CUB

Cuba - Number format

   Note: This section last updated 10th April 2021
   1,234.45

(where . indicates the decimal separator and , the thousands separator).

Cuba - Date and time formats

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   Note: This section last updated 10th April 2021
   dd/mm/yyyy
   14:32

Cuba - Languages

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The official language, spoken by all native Cubans, is Spanish External.

Cuba - Personal names and forms of address

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The abbreviation for Señorita used in Cuba is Srta.

Each person usually has a given name followed by two family names, that of the father followed by that of the mother, for example:

   Barbara Betancourt Perez

Upon marriage, females do not usually take their husband’s name.

Professional people are often referred to by their qualification, followed by the given name and paternal family name (and sometimes the maternal family name):

   Doctor (m) / Doctora (f) (Dr/Dra)         Medical doctor or any degree
   Ingeniero (m) / Ingeniera (f) (Ing.)      Engineer
   Licenciado (m) / Licenciada (f) (Lic.)    University degree
   Maestro (m) / Maestra (f)                 Grammar school teacher
   Profesor (Prof.)                          Professor, higher education teachers

These forms of address are not preceded by the standard forms of address.

   Tables of names can be acquired: given names External, surnames/family names External, family name prefixes External, forms of address External, job titles External

Cuba - Example address format

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Calle, the Spanish word for street, is rarely written. The Spanish thoroughfare type, when included, is written before, and separately from, the thoroughfare name. It should be written with the first letter in lower case.

The postal code is preceded by the letters CP. The settlement name is written in upper case.

For further address-component information, please refer to the chapter on Spain.

   A table containing information about the relevant position of elements within address blocks can be acquired External

Cuba - Post office box

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This is written Apartado Postal.

Cuba - Postal codes

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   Note: This section last updated 12th April 2020

Postal codes consist of a block of 5 digits. The first two indicate the province and a main population centre or official office within it, the final three the delivery area or office. Postal codes cannot commence with 0 or 45-49.

   Metadata containing postal code formatting rules, exceptions and regular expressions can be acquired External

Cuba - Postal code format graphic

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Cuba - Postal code format

Cuba - Postal code specifics

Cuba - Postal code regular expression

\A([1-3,5-9]\d{4,4}|[40-44]\d{3,3})\Z

Cuba - Postal code level of coverage

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Cuba - Postal code map

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Place names in Cuba

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   Note: This section last updated 21st September 2015

Refer to Exonyms in Cuba for full lists of place names in Cuba in other languages.

   Alternate place name forms/postal code tables can be acquired at http://www.grcdi.nl/settlements.htm External
   Other language place name data can be acquired at http://www.grcdi.nl/otherlanguageplace.htm External

Cuba - Administrative districts

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   Note: This section last updated 12th April 2020

Cuba has 15 provinces (provincias External, singular - provincia) and 1 special municipality (municipio especial, shown in the list below with an asterisk):

Province Postal code range
Artemisa External 35-39
Camagüey External 70-74
Ciego de Ávila External 65-69
Cienfuegos External 55-59
Granma External 85-89
Guantánamo External 95-99
Holguín External 80-84
Isla de la Juventud External * 25-29
La Habana External 1
Las Tunas External 75-79
Matanzas External 40-44
Mayabeque External 30-34
Pinar del Río External 20-24
Sancti Spíritus External 60-64
Santiago de Cuba External 90-94
Villa Clara External 50-54

Administrative districts graphic

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Telephone numbers in Cuba

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   Note: This section last updated 16th March 2024

When called from abroad, Cuban numbers have a total length of between 6 and 8 digits. Mobile numbers have the area code 5, 63 or 64.

Properties with value Cuba

References

  1. ^ citypopulation.de/en/cuba/admin/ External 20230111

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