1,206-CITY ATLASSOURCE-BACKED CITY REFERENCE
Cuba
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01What the data says — and does not say
This page separates the checked GeoNames row for Havana—2,163,824, America/Havana, and source coordinates—from live travel claims. Those fields identify and compare the record; they do not prove current transport, accessibility, census totals, or a City Atlas Club visit.
Wikidata's localized description: capital and largest city of Cuba.
02This city's dataset fingerprint
The source row behind Havana is GeoNames ID 3553478. Its recorded administrative path is Havana → Cuba, and GeoNames classifies the place as a capital of a political entity. Havana occurs once as a primary city label in this atlas sample; the numeric ID remains the durable source key if names change. The city row itself was updated 2025-10-31; that date belongs to the source record, not to every transport or visitor detail in the real destination.
Within the fixed 1,206-record atlas, Havana ranks 185 by recorded population. Inside the 2 selected Cuba entries it ranks 1; inside the 198 entries in its broad region it ranks 25. Its 2,163,824 population value is 1.59 times the 1,359,845 median for the country cohort and 2.65 times the 816,326 regional median. Havana is rank 1 among the 2 selected Cuba entries, so a percentage band would overstate this small cohort. Havana's recorded value is above the country-cohort median but remains below twice that benchmark. These comparisons describe this selected dataset only; they are not current census rankings or official urban-area boundaries.
Havana's three nearest other atlas coordinates are Miami at 367.902 km with 487,014 recorded people; Cancun at 508.623 km with 888,797 recorded people; Santiago de Cuba at 761.36 km with 555,865 recorded people. The closest-to-farthest distance spread is 393.458 km. Compared with Miami, Havana's recorded population is 4.44 times as large. Against Havana, Miami follows Miami-Dade County → Florida → United States in the source. Its point has higher latitude and higher longitude; it belongs to the selected United States cohort rather than Cuba, uses America/New_York instead of America/Havana, and carries second-order administrative seat rather than capital of a political entity. Its recorded population is below Havana's. Against Havana, Cancun follows Benito Juarez → Quintana Roo → Mexico in the source. Its point has lower latitude and lower longitude; it belongs to the selected Mexico cohort rather than Cuba, uses America/Cancun instead of America/Havana, and carries populated place rather than capital of a political entity. Its recorded population is below Havana's. Against Havana, Santiago de Cuba follows Municipio de Santiago de Cuba → Santiago de Cuba Province → Cuba in the source. Its point has lower latitude and higher longitude; it belongs to the same selected Cuba cohort, uses the shared America/Havana identifier, and carries first-order administrative seat rather than capital of a political entity. Its recorded population is below Havana's. Its nearest-neighbor distance ranks 1,154 of 1,206 from shortest to longest in the same snapshot. Havana's nearest-coordinate gap belongs to the wider half of atlas distances. This pattern can reveal whether other catalog references are geographically close, but it cannot establish whether a border crossing is possible or practical, or whether rail, road, fare, or journey-time connections exist. Read as one record signature, GeoNames 3553478, the coordinate pair 23.1330 / 82.3830, country rank 1 of 2, and neighbor GeoNames 4164138 at 367.902 km bind Havana to a reproducible comparison. That combined key distinguishes the row; it is not a recommendation or evidence of a physical connection.
Havana's reference point is 23.1330° north and 82.3830° west. The IANA identifier America/Havana is shared by 2 city rows in this catalog, while the GeoNames class PPLC is shared by 129 rows. Havana's row carries a first-order administrative label but no second-order label. Havana's point falls in the lower-latitude coordinate band used by this atlas's row checks. Havana's time-zone field defines the narrower catalog cohort; its place class is shared more broadly. GeoNames supplies no elevation for Havana, so the profile preserves that missing value instead of guessing terrain. Together these fields form a reproducible identity check for this page, not a claim about walkability, climate or accessibility.
03Nearby atlas references
Havana's closest other entries in this atlas are Miami (367.902 km), Cancun (508.623 km), Santiago de Cuba (761.36 km).
04Verify before you book
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GeoNames updated the row 2025-10-31; the atlas checked the dataset 2026-08-04. Available Wikidata fields were verified in the same run.
GeoNames data: CC BY 4.0. Wikidata labels and descriptions: CC0 1.0.