small presentation on Cuba with some interesting facts and stories.

1. CUBA
By Chinmay Dalvi

2. NEIGHBOURING
COUNTRIES
 East of the Mexico
 South of U.S.(150kms)
and Bahamas
 West of Haiti
 North of Jamaica and
Cayman Islands

3. HISTORY
 Christopher Columbus claimed island for Spanish.
 America went to war with the Spanish and defeated them,
 Cuba became American for 4 years,
 Became independent on 1902(America still controlled by law called Platt
Amendment)
 The Americans supported Fulgencio Batista, who was corrupt
 Fidel Castro led a revolution and succeed,

4.  Americans convince cubins to attack Castro but plan failed
 Castro ask Soviet Union for help
 The Soviet Union put nuclear weapons in Cuba and aimed them at America.
 America demanded that they be removed or new war would begain
 Soviet Union removed the weapons

5. GEOGRAPHY
 Island nation in Caribbean Sea.
 Total area is 109,884 km2
 104th ranking
 Coastline : 5,746 km
 Highest point : Pico Turquino.

6. POPULATION
 1.15 crores (2017)
 83rd rank
 103.4 per km2
 1.01 (5,767,409 men to 5,699,809 women)
 77.7 years (75.5 - men, 80.1 - women)

7. CURRENCY
 Cuban Peso ($, $MN, or ₱)
 1 Cuban peso = 70.79 INR = 1USD

8. FACTS
 The game of dominoes is extremely popular in
Cuba.
 Cuba has a literacy rate of 99.8%.
 Cuba has 70,000 qualified doctors. The whole of
Africa has only 50,000.
 Cubans were not allowed to own a cell phone
until 2008 when the ban was lifted by President
Raul Castro’s government.

9. VIDEO
https://youtu.be/N4ZMYokojGw

10. ECONOMY
Employment
 Public sector : 76%
 Private sector : 23%
GDP
$96.851 billion
GDP per capita
$8,541
GDP growth rate :
2.248%
1.425
5.771
12.066
4.117
2.39 3.015
1.048 0.514
2.248
2002 2004 2006 2008 2010 2012 2014 2016 2018
GROWTH RATE
Growth Rate

11. EXPORTS AND IMPORTS
 Export goods : petroleum, nickel,
medical products, sugar, tobacco,
fish, citrus, coffee
 Partners : Venezuela, Spain, Russia,
Lebanon, Indonesia, Germany
 Import goods : food, machinery and
equipment, chemicals.
 Partners : China, Spain, Russia, Brazil,
Mexico, Italy, United States

12. MAJOR BUSINESSES
 Sugar
 Petroleum
 Tobacco
 Nickel
 Agricultural Machinery

13. BRANDS

14. NATIONAL HOLIDAYS
 Liberation Day (1st January)
 Victory Day (2nd January)
 Good Friday
 Labour Day
 National Revolutionary Holiday (25th – 27th July)
 Independence Day (10th October)

15. RELIGION
 Roman Catholicism (60%)
 Non-religious (24%)
 Others/African spirituality (11%)
 Protestantism and other Christians (5%)
%
Roman Catholicism Nn-religious
Other/African spirituality Protestantism

16. FOOD
Cuban sandwich
Arroz con pollo (rice with
chicken) Café Cubano

17. DRESS

18. SPORTS
 Baseball
 Boxing
 Volleyball
 Basketball
 Sailing

19. FAMOUS PERSONALITIES
Celia Cruz
Ana De Armas
Fidel Castro

20. THANK YOU