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Provinces of Cuba

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

List of provinces
History
Demographics
Presidents of the People's Power Provincial Assemblies
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List of provinces

From west to east, Cuba's provinces are:

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 ^[1]

Province	Capital	Pop. (%)	Area (km²)	Area (%)	Density
Camagüey	Camagüey	7.02		13.2	50.22
Ciego de Ávila	Ciego de Ávila	3.68		5.6	60.70
Cienfuegos	Cienfuegos	3.54		3.9	94.54
Ciudad de la Habana	Havana	19.70	740	0.7
Granma	Bayamo	7.36		7.9	98.20
Guantánamo	Guantánamo	4.54		6.0	82.22
Holguín	Holguín	9.14		8.5	109.90
	Nueva Gerona	0.77		2.1	35.78
La Habana	Havana	6.36		5.3	124.06
Las Tunas		4.70		6.0	79.77
Matanzas	Matanzas	6.00		10.0	56.80
Pinar del Río	Pinar del Río	6.50		10.2	66.63
Sancti Spíritus	Sancti Spíritus	4.12		6.3	68.33
Santiago de Cuba	Santiago de Cuba	9.27		5.9	168.32
Villa Clara	Santa Clara	7.31		7.6	97.17
Cuba	*Havana*				*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).^[2]

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 Habana	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