{"id":89565,"date":"2026-02-24T12:22:00","date_gmt":"2026-02-24T06:52:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=89565"},"modified":"2026-02-24T12:22:00","modified_gmt":"2026-02-24T06:52:00","slug":"key-facts-about-cuba","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/key-facts-about-cuba\/","title":{"rendered":"Key Facts about Cuba"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><b>Cuba Latest News<\/b><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Cuban security advisers and doctors are withdrawing from Venezuela due to mounting U.S. pressure.<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><b>About Cuba<\/b><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><b>Location: <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It is<\/span> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">the largest island country located in the <\/span><b>north western Caribbean<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> at the <\/span><b>confluence of<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> the <\/span><b><a href=\"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/atlantic-ocean\/\" target=\"_blank\">Atlantic Ocean<\/a>, Caribbean Sea and the Gulf of Mexico.<\/b><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Cuba shares its maritime borders with the <\/span><b>US, Haiti, Honduras, The Bahamas, Jamaica and Mexico.<\/b><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><b>Water bodies:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> It is surrounded by the Atlantic Ocean, <\/span><b>Cayman Trench, Gulf of Mexico, Straits of Florida and the Caribbean Sea.<\/b><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><b>Capital City:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> Havana<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2><b>Geographical Features of Cuba<\/b><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><b>Topography:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0 It is relatively flat, gradually transitioning into hills.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><b>Climate: <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In Cuba, the <\/span><b>climate is tropical,<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> with a dry and relatively cool season from late November to mid-April, and a rainy and muggy season from late April to early November.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><b>Mountain ranges:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> Sierra Maestra.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><b>River:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> The country\u2019s longest <\/span><b>river is the Cauto.<\/b><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><b>Lakes and Reservoirs:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> Laguna de Leche and man-made Zaza Reservoir<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><b>Natural Resources: <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Cuba has plenty of natural resources such as <\/span><b>nickel, cobalt, petroleum, arable land, forests.<\/b><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>Source: <\/b><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.devdiscourse.com\/article\/politics\/3812907-venezuela-cuba-alliance-faces-unraveling-under-us-pressure\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Devd<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cuba is the largest Caribbean island nation, located where the Atlantic Ocean, Gulf of Mexico &#038; Caribbean Sea meet, known for its tropical climate, diverse landscapes &#038; rich culture.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":89605,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[5675,21,23],"class_list":{"0":"post-89565","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","8":"tag-cuba","9":"tag-prelims-pointers","10":"tag-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","11":"no-featured-image-padding"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89565","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/24"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=89565"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89565\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":89630,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89565\/revisions\/89630"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/89605"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=89565"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=89565"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=89565"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}