Cuba 1949

Area: 114,500 square kilometers (44,208 square miles)

Population: 5,129,686

Capital: Habana. Population: 740,733

Language: Spanish 

Principal Products: Sugar, cattle, tobacco, vegetables, fruits, minerals, wood, henequen, honey, asphalt.

Principal Exports: Sugar, molasses, alcohol, leaf tobacco, cigars, bananas, pine-apples, yarns, alcoholic beverages, sponges, coffee, manganese, chrome, iron, copper, tungsten.

Principal Imports: Cereals, pork, and lard; pharmaceuticals and chemicals; cotton and jute; iron and steel manufactures; coal.

Unit of Currency: Peso, equivalent to the U. S. dollar." (Pan American Union. Washington D. C.)