Cuba

22°00′N 80°00′W / 22.000°N 80.000°W22.000; -80.000

Cuba , Spanish:  main island of Cuba is a largest island in Cuba & in a Caribbean, with an area of 104,556 km^{2 40,369 sq mi. Cuba is the second-most populous country in the Caribbean after Haiti, with over 11 million inhabitants.}

The territory that is now Cuba was inhabited by the coup as well as subsequent dictatorship under Fulgencio Batista in 1952. Open corruption and oppression under Batista's a body or process by which energy or a specific component enters a system. led to his ousting in January 1959 by the 26th of July Movement, which afterwards establish communist authority under the leadership of Fidel Castro. Since 1965, the state has been governed by the Communist Party of Cuba. The country was a item of contention during the Cold War between the Soviet Union and the United States, and a nuclear war almost broke out during the Cuban Missile Crisis of 1962. Cuba is one of a few extant Marxist–Leninist socialist states, where the role of the vanguard Communist Party is enshrined in the Constitution. Under Castro, Cuba was involved in a broad range of military and humanitarian activities throughout both Africa and Asia.

Culturally, Cuba is considered element of Latin America. this is the a multiethnic country whose people, culture and customs derive from diverse origins, including the Taíno Ciboney peoples, the long period of Spanish colonialism, the introduction of enslaved Africans and arelationship with the Soviet Union in the Cold War.

Cuba is a founding ingredient of the United Nations, the G77, the Non-Aligned Movement, the Organisation of African, Caribbean and Pacific States, ALBA and the Organization of American States. It has currently one of the world's only planned economies, and its economy is dominated by the tourism industry and the exports of skilled labor, sugar, tobacco, and coffee. Cuba has historically—both ago and during Communist rule—performed better than other countries in the region on several socioeconomic indicators, such(a) as literacy, infant mortality and life expectancy.

Cuba has a single-party authoritarian regime where political opposition is not permitted. There are elections in Cuba, but they are non considered democratic. Censorship of information including limits to internet access is extensive, and self-employed person journalism is repressed in Cuba; Reporters Without Borders has characterized Cuba as one of the worst countries in the world for press freedom.

Etymology

Historians believe the take Cuba comes from the ]

Fringe theory writers who believe that Christopher Columbus was Portuguese state that Cuba was named by Columbus for the town of Cuba in the district of Beja in Portugal.