2. The Republic of Cuba, referred to as Cuba for short, is an archipelago country in the northern Caribbean of North America, and Havana is the economic and political center and capital of Cuba. Cuba is one of the few five socialist countries in the world-China, North Korea, Cuba, Viet Nam and Laos-and the only socialist country in America. Historically, it is famous for the Bay of Pigs incident and the Cuban missile crisis in the 1960s.
3. Cuba is located in the northwest of the Caribbean Sea, bordering Haiti in the east, Jamaica140km in the south and Florida Peninsula in the United States 217km in the north. Area 109884 km2, of which Cuba Island 104555.6 1 km2 and surrounding islands and reefs are 3 126.43 km2.
4. Most of Cuba has a tropical rain forest climate, and only the leeward slope of the southwest coast has a tropical grassland climate, with an average annual temperature of 25 degrees Celsius. Except for a few areas, the annual precipitation is above1000 mm. In 2008, Cuba announced that it had proven recoverable oil reserves of 20 billion barrels, mainly stored in Cuba's exclusive economic zone in the Gulf of Mexico. However, according to the US Geological Survey, Cuba's offshore oil reserves are about 5 billion barrels, with a maximum of 9 billion barrels.