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Castro's Island
Section: CURRENT ISSUES / ANALYSIS
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Publication: The world & I online
Issue Date: 1/1/2004
Size: 148 Words, 1,125 Characters

Official Name: Republic of Cuba.

Capital: Havana.

Geography: Area: 42,800 square miles (about the size of Pennsylvania). Location: In t...


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...rcent, prior to Castro, whose regime encouraged atheism.

Education: Literacy: 96 percent.

Economy: Industries: sugar, oil, tobacco, chemicals, construction. Chief crops: sugarcane, tobacco, rice, coffee, citrus fruit. Minerals: cobalt, nickel, iron, copper, manganese, salt. Crude oil reserves: 0.3 billion barrels. Arable land: 24 percent. Per capita GDP: $1,700.

Government: Communist.



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