Cuba in other languages: exonyms, Havana and the 15 provinces
Cuba is the República de Cuba in Spanish, its only official language, and carries the ISO codes CU, CUB and 192. Most languages keep the name close to the original, as Kuba, Kuuba, Куба or كوبا; the tables below give it in 176 languages, the capital La Habana in 91, and the 15 provinces and one special municipality with their ISO 3166-2 codes.
Official languagesSpanish
Checked
- alpha-2
- CU
- alpha-3
- CUB
- numeric
- 192
República de Cuba
- English
- CubaRepublic of Cuba
- Capital
- La HabanaLa Habana · Havana
ISO 3166-1, checked 28 October 2026
Cuba in other languages: list of exonyms
| Languages | ISO 639-3 | Name | Romanised |
|---|---|---|---|
| English, Aragonese, Asturian, Catalan, Danish, French, Franco-Provençal, Galician, Hausa, Interlingua, Italian, Jersey Norman French, Latin, Ladin, Nahuatl, Dutch, Norwegian, Occitan, Portuguese, Romansh, Romanian, Aromanian, Spanish, Sardinian, Swahili, Walloon | eng / arg / ast / cat / dan / fra / frp / glg / hau / ina / ita / jnf / lat / lld / nah / nld / nor / oci / por / roh / ron / rup / spa / srd / swa / wln | Cuba | same as written |
| Afrikaans, Aymara, Breton, Czech, Cornish, Lower Sorbian, Basque, Faroese, West Frisian, Croatian, Upper Sorbian, Hungarian, Indonesian, Javanese, Latvian, Lingala, Lithuanian, Latgalian, Maltese, Novial, Papiamentu, Polish, Quechua, Slovak, Slovenian, Northern Sami, Samogitian, Albanian, Saterland Frisian, Swedish, Silesian, Tetum, Tagalog, Zazaki, German, Luxembourgish, Low German | afr / aym / bre / ces / cor / dsb / eus / fao / fry / hrv / hsb / hun / ind / jav / lav / lin / lit / ltg / mlt / nov / pap / pol / que / slk / slv / sme / smg / sqi / stq / swe / szl / tet / tgl / zza / deu / ltz / nds | Kuba | same as written |
| Azerbaijani, Crimean Tatar, Gagauz, Karakalpak, Slovio, Turkmen | aze / crh / gag / kaa / slo / tuk | Kuba / Куба | Kuba |
| Estonian, Finnish, Kven, Somali, Võro, Yucatec Maya | est / fin / fkv / som / vor / yua | Kuuba | same as written |
| Bambara, Haitian Creole, Kinyarwanda, Kirundi | bam / hat / kin / run | Kiba | same as written |
| Samoan, Tongan | smo / ton | Kiupa | same as written |
| Bosnian | bos | Kuba / Куба / قۆبا | Kuba |
| Welsh | cym | Ciwba | same as written |
| Esperanto | epo | Kubo | same as written |
| Friulian | fur | Cube | same as written |
| Scottish Gaelic | gla | Cùba | same as written |
| Irish | gle | Cúba | same as written |
| Manx | glv | Yn Choobey | same as written |
| Guarani | grn | Kuva | same as written |
| Igbo | ibo | Kiuba | same as written |
| Icelandic | isl | Kúba | same as written |
| Kurmanji Kurdish | kur | Kuba, Kûba | same as written |
| Malagasy | mlg | Kioba | same as written |
| Moldovan | mol | Cuba / Куба | Cuba |
| Malay | msa | Cuba / كوبا | Cuba |
| Norman French | nrm | Tchuba | same as written |
| Kalderash Romani | rmy | Kuba / कुबा | Kuba |
| Sicilian | scn | Cubba | same as written |
| Turkish | tur | Küba | same as written |
| Uzbek | uzb | Kuba / Куба / كۇبە | Kuba |
| Vietnamese | vie | Cu Ba | same as written |
| Volapük | vol | Kubeän | same as written |
| Wolof | wol | Kubaa | same as written |
| Abkhaz, Abaza, Altai, Avar, Bulgarian, Khakas, Komi, Karachay-Balkar, Kumyk, Lezgi, Meadow Mari, Macedonian, Rusyn, Russian, Yakut, Tuvan, Udmurt, Ukrainian, Kalmyk | abk / abq / alt / ava / bul / kjh / kom / krc / kum / lez / mhr / mkd / rue / rus / sah / tyv / udm / ukr / xal | Куба | Kuba |
| Bashkir, Belarusian, Chechen, Serbian | bak / bel / che / srp | Куба / Kuba | Kuba |
| Chuvash | chv | Кубӑ | Kubă |
| Kazakh | kaz | Куба / كۋبا / Kwba | Kwba |
| Kabardian | kbd | Кубэ | Kubă |
| Kyrgyz | kir | Куба / كۇبا / Kuba | Kuba |
| Kurdish (Caucasus) | kmr | Куба / Kûba | Kûba |
| Mongolian | mon | Куб | Kub |
| Ossetian | oss | Кубӕ | Kubä |
| Tatar | tat | Куба / Kuba / كۇبا | Kuba |
| Tajik | tgk | Куба / کوبه / Kuba | Kuba |
| Arabic | ara | كوبا | Kūbā |
| South Azerbaijani, Sorani Kurdish | azb / ckb | کوبا / Kuba | Kuba |
| Persian | fas | کوبا / Kubâ | Kubâ |
| Western Punjabi, Dari, Urdu | pnb / prs / urd | کیوبا | Kiyūbā |
| Pashto | pus | کيوبا, کوبا | Kiyūbā, Kūbā |
| Uyghur | uig | كۇبا / Kuba / Куба | Kuba |
| Dhivehi | div | ކިއުބާ | Kiubā |
| Hebrew | heb | קובה | Qūbah |
| Ladino | lad | קובה / Kuba | Kuba |
| Yiddish | yid | קובאַ | Kuba |
| Berber, Kabyle | ber / kab | ⴽⵓⴱⴰ / Kuba | Kuba |
| Amharic | amh | ኩባ | Kuba |
| Greek (Demotic) | ell | Κούβα | Koýva |
| Greek (Katharevousa) | ell | Κοῦβα | Koỹva |
| Armenian | hye | Կուբա | Kouba |
| Georgian, Mingrelian | kat / xmf | კუბა | Kuba |
| Laz | lzz | კუბა / K’uba | K’uba |
| Hindi | hin | क्यूबा, कूबा, क्योबा | Kyūbā, Kūbā, Kyobā |
| Bengali | ben | কিউবা, কুবা | Kiubā, Kubā |
| Gujarati | guj | ક્યુબા | Kyubā |
| Odia | ori | କ୍ୟୁବା | Kyubā |
| Punjabi | pan | ਕਿਊਬਾ | Kiūbā |
| Sinhala | sin | කියුබාව | Kiyubāva |
| Kannada | kan | ಕ್ಯೂಬ | Kyūba |
| Malayalam | mal | ക്യൂബ | Kyūba |
| Tamil | tam | கியூபா | Kiyūpā |
| Telugu | tel | క్యూబా | Kyūbā |
| Chinese | zho | 古巴 | Gǔbā |
| Cantonese | yue | 古巴 | Gúbā |
| Japanese | jpn | キューバ | Kyūba |
| Korean | kor | 쿠바 | Kuba |
| Tibetan | bod | ཀུ་བ། | Ku.ba |
| Dzongkha | dzo | ཀིའུ་སྦ། | Ki'u.sba |
| Burmese | mya | ကျူးဘား | Kyùbʰà |
| Thai | tha | คิวบา | Kʰiwbā |
| Lao | lao | ກຸບາ | Kubā |
| Khmer | khm | គុយបា | Kuybā |
Cuba, Kuba, Kuuba: one short name in many spellings
A name of two syllables gives languages little to change. 26 languages, from English and Spanish to Hausa and Walloon, write Cuba exactly as Spanish does. Another 37 replace the c with k, among them German, Polish, Hungarian, Indonesian and the Sorbian languages. Estonian, Finnish and Somali lengthen the vowel to Kuuba, while Haitian Creole, Bambara and Kinyarwanda reduce the name to Kiba.
Further away the vowels shift more. Hindi lists three spellings, क्यूबा, कूबा and क्योबा, Bengali two; Japanese has キューバ (Kyūba) with a y-glide that Gujarati, Kannada and Telugu share. Chinese writes 古巴, Gǔbā in Pinyin, and Korean 쿠바. Manx stands apart with Yn Choobey, where yn is the article.
Havana shows the opposite pattern. Spanish says La Habana, and the Romance languages around it keep the article: L’Avana, L’Havana, La Havane, A Habana. German, Finnish, Swedish and Hungarian double the n in Havanna. Russian and most languages written in Cyrillic start with a g, Гавана (Gavana), the way Turkmen Gawana and Uzbek Gavana do.
Havana (La Habana) in other languages
| Languages | ISO 639-3 | Name | Romanised |
|---|---|---|---|
| English, Czech, Cornish, Welsh, Danish, Croatian, Kurmanji Kurdish, Latvian, Lithuanian, Dutch, Portuguese, Slovak, Slovenian, Samogitian, Albanian, Turkish, Zazaki | eng / ces / cor / cym / dan / hrv / kur / lav / lit / nld / por / slk / slv / smg / sqi / tur / zza | Havana | same as written |
| Estonian, Finnish, Hungarian, Norwegian, Swedish, German, Luxembourgish, Low German | est / fin / hun / nor / swe / deu / ltz / nds | Havanna | same as written |
| Italian, Occitan, Sicilian | ita / oci / scn | L’Avana | same as written |
| Aragonese, Spanish | arg / spa | La Habana | same as written |
| Moldovan, Slovio | mol / slo | Havana / Хавана | Havana |
| Polish, Silesian | pol / szl | Hawana | same as written |
| Asturian | ast | L’Habana | same as written |
| Azerbaijani | aze | Havana / Һавана | Havana |
| Bosnian | bos | Havana / Хавана / حاوانا | Havana |
| Catalan | cat | L’Havana | same as written |
| Esperanto | epo | Havano | same as written |
| French | fra | La Havane, La Havanne | same as written |
| Irish | gle | Habana, Havána | same as written |
| Galician | glg | A Habana | same as written |
| Latin | lat | Abana | same as written |
| Malay | msa | Havana / هاۏانا | Havana |
| Nahuatl | nah | In Habana | same as written |
| Tetum | tet | Avana | same as written |
| Tagalog | tgl | Habana | same as written |
| Turkmen | tuk | Gawana / Гавана | Gawana |
| Uzbek | uzb | Gavana / Гавана / گەۋەنە | Gavana |
| Vietnamese | vie | La Ha-van | same as written |
| Bashkir | bak | Гавана / Gavana | Gavana |
| Belarusian | bel | Гавана / Havana | Havana |
| Bulgarian | bul | Хавана | Ȟavana |
| Chuvash | chv | Гаванӑ | Gavană |
| Kazakh | kaz | Гавана / گاۆانا / Gavana | Gavana |
| Kabardian | kbd | Гаванэ | Gavană |
| Kyrgyz | kir | Гавана / گاۋانا / Gavana | Gavana |
| Mongolian | mon | Гаван | Gavan |
| Ossetian | oss | Гаванӕ | Gavanä |
| Russian | rus | Гавана | Gavana |
| Serbian | srp | Хавана / Havana | Havana |
| Tatar | tat | Гавана / Havana / ھاۋانا | Havana |
| Tajik | tgk | Ҳавана / هونه / Havana, Гавана / گونه / Gavana | Havana, Gavana |
| Ukrainian | ukr | Гавана | Havana |
| Arabic | ara | هافانا, هفانا | Hāfānā, Hafānā |
| South Azerbaijani | azb | هاوانا / Havana | Havana |
| Persian | fas | هاوانا / Hâvânâ, هاوان / Hâvân | Hâvânâ, Hâvân |
| Western Punjabi, Urdu | pnb / urd | ہوانا | Havānā |
| Pashto | pus | هوانا | Hawānā |
| Uyghur | uig | ھاۋانا / Hawana / Гавана | Hawana |
| Hebrew | heb | הונה / הוונה, הואנה / הוואנה, הבנה, הבאנה | Havanah, Havānah, Haṿanah, Haṿānah |
| Yiddish | yid | האַװאַנע | Havane |
| Amharic | amh | ሀቫና, ሐቫና | Hăvana, Ḥăvana |
| Greek (Demotic) | ell | Αβάνα | Avána |
| Greek (Katharevousa) | ell | Ἁβάνα | Havána |
| Armenian | hye | Հավանա | Havana |
| Georgian | kat | ჰავანა | Havana |
| Hindi | hin | हवाना | Havānā |
| Bengali | ben | হাভানা | Hābʰānā |
| Punjabi | pan | ਹਵਾਨਾ | Havānā |
| Kannada | kan | ಹವಾನ | Havāna |
| Malayalam | mal | ഹവാന | Havāna |
| Tamil | tam | அவானா, ஹவானா | Avāṉā, Havāṉā |
| Telugu | tel | హవానా | Havānā |
| Chinese | zho | 哈瓦那 | Hāwǎnā |
| Japanese | jpn | ハバナ | Habana |
| Korean | kor | 아바나 | Abana |
| Tibetan | bod | ཧ་ཝན། | Ha.wan |
| Thai | tha | ฮาวานา | Hāwānā |
| Khmer | khm | ហាវ៉ាណា, ហាវានា | Hāvāṇā, Hāvānā |
Several Romance languages keep the article as part of the name: La Habana in Spanish, L’Avana in Italian, L’Havana in Catalan, A Habana in Galician, La Havane in French.
The 15 provinces of Cuba and the special municipality
Cuba has 15 provinces and the special municipality of Isla de la Juventud, which belongs to no province. Each row gives the Spanish name, the ISO 3166-2 code and the provincial capital.
| ISO 3166-2 | Spanish | English | Administrative centre | Change |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Provinces15 | ||||
| CU-15 | Provincia de Artemisa | Artemisa Province | ArtemisaArtemisa | 2014 Added to ISO 3166-2 with its own code |
| CU-09 | Provincia de Camagüey | Camagüey Province | CamagüeyCamagüey | |
| CU-08 | Provincia de Ciego de Ávila | Ciego de Ávila Province | Ciego de ÁvilaCiego de Ávila | |
| CU-06 | Provincia de Cienfuegos | Cienfuegos Province | CienfuegosCienfuegos | |
| CU-12 | Provincia de Granma | Granma Province | BayamoBayamo | |
| CU-14 | Provincia de Guantánamo | Guantánamo Province | GuantánamoGuantánamo | |
| CU-11 | Provincia de Holguín | Holguín Province | HolguínHolguín | |
| CU-03was CU-02 | Provincia de La Habana | Havana Province | La HabanaHavana | 2014 The city province took the code CU-03 and the name La Habana; CU-02 was deleted |
| CU-10 | Provincia de Las Tunas | Las Tunas Province | Victoria de las TunasVictoria de las Tunas | |
| CU-04 | Provincia de Matanzas | Matanzas Province | MatanzasMatanzas | |
| CU-16 | Provincia de Mayabeque | Mayabeque Province | San José de las LajasSan José de las Lajas | 2014 Added to ISO 3166-2 with its own code |
| CU-01 | Provincia de Pinar del Río | Pinar del Río Province | Pinar del RíoPinar del Río | |
| CU-07 | Provincia de Sancti Spíritus | Sancti Spíritus Province | Sancti SpíritusSancti Spíritus | |
| CU-13 | Provincia de Santiago de Cuba | Santiago de Cuba Province | Santiago de CubaSantiago de Cuba | |
| CU-05 | Provincia de Villa Clara | Villa Clara Province | Santa ClaraSanta Clara | |
| Special municipality1 | ||||
| CU-99 | Municipio Especial Isla de la Juventud | Isla de la Juventud | Nueva GeronaNueva Gerona | |
Codes: ISO 3166-2:CU on the ISO Online Browsing Platform, read from the English Wikipedia table that reproduces it on 28 October 2026, including the change of 29 October 2014. Spanish names and capitals: the 2017 edition of this list.
How the province codes changed in 2014
On 29 October 2014 ISO 3166-2 caught up with a new map of western Cuba. Artemisa (CU-15) and Mayabeque (CU-16) entered the list, the code CU-02 was deleted, and CU-03 now stands for La Habana, the province that consists of the capital alone. The other codes, from CU-01 Pinar del Río to CU-14 Guantánamo, stayed as they were.
Most capitals share the name of their province. Five do not: Granma is governed from Bayamo, Mayabeque from San José de las Lajas, Villa Clara from Santa Clara, Las Tunas from Victoria de las Tunas and the Isla de la Juventud from Nueva Gerona. The anthem below, La Bayamesa, is named after the people of Bayamo.
La Bayamesa, the national anthem
The anthem in the two stanzas sung today, in Spanish.
- Al combate, corred, Bayameses, / Que la Patria os contempla orgullosa / No temáis una muerte gloriosa, / Que morir por la Patria es vivir.
- En cadenas vivir, es vivir / En afrenta y oprobio sumido / Del clarín escuchad el sonido / ¡A las armas, valientes, corred!
Questions about the name Cuba
What are the ISO codes of Cuba?
CU (alpha-2), CUB (alpha-3) and 192 (numeric) in ISO 3166-1. The provinces run from CU-01 to CU-16, and the Isla de la Juventud has CU-99.
How do you write Cuba in Russian and Arabic?
Куба (Kuba) in Russian and كوبا (Kūbā) in Arabic.
Why is Havana spelled with an article in some languages?
Spanish calls the city La Habana, and neighbouring languages translate the article with it: L’Avana in Italian, La Havane in French, A Habana in Galician.