Cuba (Alternity)

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State of Cuba
Estado de Cuba
Timeline: Alternity
OTL equivalent: Cuba

State of the United States of America Flag of Cuba State seal Location of Cuba in the United States
Capital	Havana
Largest City	Calixto
Other Cities	San Carlos, Alexandria, Guantanamo
Language	English Spanish
Ethnic Groups   Main	White (Hispanic) White (non-Hispanic)
Others	Native American, Black, Asian
Demonym	Cuban
Government	Representative democracy
Legislature	State Legislature
Governor	Mel Martinez (R)
Area	42,426 sq. mi.
Population	20,200,000
Admission	August 1874
Currency	USD
Time Zone	Eastern
Abbreviations	CU

Cuba (CU) is a US state located in the Caribbean and is the largest island in the Greater Antilles island chain. Cuba is separated from the rest of the United States by the ninety-miles of the Peninsular Strait, under which runs the recently completed East Florida-Cuba Transit Tunnel – a high-speed rail line linking Key West in East Florida with San Carlos in Cuba – frequently dubbed the 'American Chunnel'. At roughly a hundred miles in length (with ninety miles under the waters of the Peninsular Strait), the EF-CTT is the longest undersea tunnel in the world, at nearly three times the length of the Columbia-Washington Juan de Fuca Tunnel and Europe's Channel Tunnel.

Admitted to the Union as the 39th state on August 2, 1874, Cuba was acquired from Spain through the Adams-Onis Treaty of 1819, which also officially transferred East Florida and the remainder of West Florida to American control and defined the western extent of the Louisiana Purchase. Cuba is the 5th largest state in the US, with a population of 20.2 million, behind Luzon, Texas, South California, and North California, and is one of only four states where Spanish is an official second language (the others being Santo Domingo, Panama and Puerto Rico), due to the state's majority Hispanic population of 55.4%.

Counties

Cuba is subdivided into seventeen counties, which are listed below in order of population.

Map of counties in Cuba.

Rank	Name	County Seat	Population
1	Calixto County	Calixto	2,200,000
2	Havana County	Havana	2,170,000
3	Guantanamo County	Guantanamo	2,070,000
4	Liberty County	Antillo	2,056,000
5	Adams County	Adamston	1,795,000
6	Alexandria County	Alexandria	1,510,000
7	Trinidad County	Pearl City	1,507,000
8	Cabo County	Manzanillo	1,000,000
9	Varadero County	Newport	956,000
10	Florida County	Cayo	720,000
11	Santa Cruz County	Santa Cruz	600,000
12	San Carlos County	San Carlos	350,000
13	Bay County	Punta Gorda	300,000
14	Pinar del Rio County	San Cristobal	270,000
15	San Lucia County	Columbus	210,000
16	San Antonio County	Pinewood	200,000
17	Isla County	Santa Fe	121,500

Images

Current license plate of Cuba (since 1990).