Provinzen Kubas

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

List of provinces

Vorlage:Provinces of Cuba map From west to east, Cuba's provinces are:

1. Isla de la Juventud
2. Pinar del Río
3. La Habana
4. Ciudad de La Habana
5. Matanzas
6. Cienfuegos
7. Villa Clara
8. Sancti Spíritus
9. Ciego de Ávila
10. Luis Del Rey
11. Camagüey
12. Las Tunas
13. Granma
14. Holguín
15. Santiago de Cuba
16. 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, contained the present day province of La Habana and included the city of Havana
• Matanzas
• Las Villas (before 1940, "Santa Clara"), contained the present day provinces of Cienfuegos, Villa Clara and Sancti Spíritus
• Camagüey (before 1899, "Puerto Príncipe"), contained the present day provinces of Camagüey and Ciego de Ávila
• Oriente (before 1905, "Santiago de Cuba"), contained the present day provinces of Las Tunas, Granma, Holguín, Santiago de Cuba and Guantánamo

Demographics

Pop. = Population. Source: Cuba census 2002 

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

Presidents of the People's Power Provincial Assemblies

Presidents of the Provincial Assemblies of People's Power in each province in the country (Mayor).

Province	President of the Provincial Assembly
Camagüey	Jesús Arturo García Collazo
Ciego de Ávila	Agustín Gregorio Arza Pascual
Cienfuegos	Rolando Díaz González
Ciudad de la HabanaVorlage:Nbsp	Juan Contino Aslán
Granma	Jesús Antonio Infante López
Guantánamo	Luis Fernando Navarro Fernández
Holguín	Alberto Olivera Fis
Isla de la Juventud	Roberto Unger Pérez
La Habana	Armando Cuellar Domínguez
Las Tunas	Víctor Luis Rodríguez Carballosa
Matanzas	Nilo Tomás Díaz Fundora
Pinar del Río	Vidal Pérez Baños
Sancti Spíritus	Fidel Pérez Luzbert
Santiago de Cuba	Rolando Yero García
Villa Clara	Alexander Rodriguez Rosada

See also

• Politics of Cuba
• Ranked list of Cuban provinces
• Cuba Census 2002 data
• List of places in Cuba
• Municipalities of Cuba
• ISO 3166-2:CU

External links

• Vorlage:Statoids